Evan Selinger

Who is Evan Selinger?  Can we separate the man from the myth?  There are many conflicting accounts and a few unreturned phone calls, but a few details are certain.

An award-winning instructor with a passion for collaborative writing and pedagogy, Evan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, and Graduate Program Faculty at the Golisano Institute for Sustainability.  According to a reliable source, he is happy to have relocated from the unaffordable hub of downstate road rage, cacophonous accents, and poltergeists, Amityville Long Island, to Rochester, New York, which is the venerable birthplace of Wegmans and the current “World’s Image Center.”

Evan received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2003, having spent a few fruitful years there schizophrenically pursuing his interests in phenomenology and avant-garde STS theory with Don Ihde’s internationally renowned Technoscience Research Group, and the fusion of artificial life and analytic philosophy with Patrick Grim’s Group for Logic and Formal Semantics.

Although located in Pittsford, Evan travels extensively throughout Europe and the United States to collaborate, lecture, and teach.  Recently, he has been a visiting professor at the Danish Research School in Philosophy, History of Ideas and the University of Twente (Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science)

What does Evan do when he isn’t trying to take over the philosophical world?   Truth be told, we hear that he ultimately spends most of his free time wondering, perversely, if he’s doing a good job managing his free time.  Despite having no handy skills and a healthy dose of skepticism for the well-to-do, he lives with his wife Noreen and daughter Rory in an old farmhouse in what many feel is the most bourgeois part of town.  As if these contradictions weren’t enough, Evan finds it easier to locate loopholes in deep philosophical arguments than to refute Rory’s contention that if “C” is for cookie, it should be good enough for him.