Steven W. Horst

Steven Horst is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT (USA), where he has taught since 1990.

Horst grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Boston University (BA 1982) and the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. 1990).

In addition to being a professional philosopher, he is also a cellist, and was a pioneer in the use of cello in Irish music during the 1980s with the Notre Dame-based group Seamaisin.

His latest book, Cognitive Pluralism, will be available April 2016 from MIT Press and can be pre-ordered on Amazon now.

Trivia for Amazon bibliophiles: At Boston University, Horst was the roommate of sci-fi author Neal Stephenson.

He maintains a personal website at http://www.stevenhorst.com

(Photo taken at the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford, UK, favorite hang-out of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other members of "the Inklings".)