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Background

Emilie Pagano is a PRODIG+ postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy. She received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023. Before coming to Binghamton in 2025, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna under the Knowledge in Crisis project. 

She is interested in a range of issues at the intersection of metaphysics and social philosophy. She is especially interested in a distinctive feature of social phenomena: roughly, that they exist because we say they exist. She has related interests in the metaphysics of social construction, sex and gender.

Selected Publications

• “All Socially Constructed Facts are Social Facts.” Forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly
• “Functionalism, Pluralities, and Groups.” Forthcoming in Dialectica
• “Social Construction, Social Kinds, and Exportation.” Analysis, 84(1): 83–93 (2023)
• “What Social Construction Isn’t.” Philosophia, 49(1): 1651–1670 (2021)

Education

• PhD, University of Texas at Austin
• MA, University of Colorado at Boulder
• BA, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests

• Social philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Social ontology
• Feminist philosophy

Teaching Interests

• Social philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Social ontology
• Feminist philosophy

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