Mercedes Valmisa

Mercedes Valmisa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. She writes about human and nonhuman agency within the framework of relational ontologies. Her first book, Adapting. A Chinese Philosophy of Action (Oxford University Press, 2021) explores an extraordinary strategy for effective action devised by Classical Chinese philosophers to account for the interdependent, embedded, and collective character of human agency. She holds graduate degrees from National Taiwan University and Princeton University.