Quyen Pham

I am a Vietnamese philosopher currently based in the United States, where I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. I completed my BA in Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

My primary interests lie in the intersection between metaphysics and social philosophy. My current research focuses on a particular kind of social entities, namely, social groups—think clubs, teams, and bands, but also families and committees—and metaphysical issues surrounding their existence, identity, and persistence, among others.

I am also interested in social categories, such as particular genders and races, and artifacts, the objects of our social world, and how questions about the nature of these entities interact with issues about explanation, agency, responsibility, and structural and ontological injustice.

You can read more about my papers in progress, courses taught and developed, professional and community services, and outreach projects.

Feel free to reach out to me at phamvulequyen (at) gmail (dot) com.

A note on names: My full name is Phạm Vũ Lệ Quyên. Vietnamese names are family-name-first, with Quyên being the short version of my given name. You may occasionally find me as Le Quyen Pham, but since 2016, I have gone by Quyen Pham in all English-speaking professional contexts. I usually pronounce it like Quinn.

Photo taken by Nikolai Costalas.