Stephan Blatti is a researcher and freelance writer interested in philosophy and the history of science.
Blatti is the editor or co-editor of three books – Animalism (2016), Ontology after Carnap (2016), Essays on Perceptual Experience (2024) – all with Oxford University Press. His writing has appeared in American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Mind, Philosophical Psychology, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and elsewhere. His work has been supported through numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the Animals & Society Institute, and the Templeton Foundation.
He has held academic appointments at Duke University, George Washington University, University of Maryland, University of Memphis, University of North Carolina, and the Lawrenceville School. At Maryland, he was director of University Honors, associate director of the Honors College, and affiliate associate professor of philosophy. At Memphis, Blatti was chair and associate professor of philosophy, director of the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, and an affiliate faculty member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems. He has served as editor of The Southern Journal of Philosophy and managing editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Blatti grew up in the upper midwest and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The Ohio State University where he won the Bingham Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Philosophy. He received his masters and doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was awarded the first fellowship for an international postgraduate student in philosophy.
He lives in the wilds of western Connecticut with his wife and two sons.