Brian Epstein (philosopher)

Brian Epstein is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Tufts University. He is known for his works on social ontology and is a winner of the Lakatos Award.^[1][2][3] He specializes in social ontology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of the social sciences.

Brian Epstein
Awards	Lakatos Award
Education
Education	Stanford University (PhD), University of Oxford (MSt), Princeton University (BA)
Thesis	Simple Words and Subtle Things: Social Kinds and the Making of Reference (2004)
Doctoral advisor	John William Etchemendy
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	Tufts University
Main interests	philosophy of science
Website	https://epstein.org/

Books

• Social Ontology, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
• The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences, Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Cambridge Companion to the Metaphysics of Law (co-edited with George Pavlakos and Corrado Roversi), Cambridge University Press, expected publication 2026.
• The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology (co-edited with Sally Haslanger, Stephanie Collins, and Hans-Bernhard Schmid), Oxford University Press, expected publication 2025.