Jon Cogburn

Jon Cogburn is chair of the Louisiana State University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. He has published extensively in philosophy of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of art and with Mark Ohm and Abigail and Christopher Ray Alexander he has translated four books by Tristan Garcia. His monographs include Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (Edinburgh, 2017) and with Mark Silcox, Philosophy through Video Games (Routledge, 2008). He has edited, with Mark Silcox, Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy (Open Court, 2012) and with Niki Young, The Graham Harman Reader (Zer0, 2023). With Michael Ardoline, he is currently finishing Weird Atheism: H.P. Lovecraft and the Meaning of Life and making progress on books on panpsychism and Object-Oriented Ontology with Niki Young. Cogburn has been an avid guitarist since junior high school and currently performs with the Baton Rouge area swamp punk bands Captain Paranoid and Down by Law. He paints with watercolors in his spare time. His immediate family includes two teenage children, two unruly, lovable dogs, two intrepid felines, and his fellow band member and wife, writer and philosopher Emily Cogburn.