Photo Credit: Mia Bloom
About me
I am an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University, Fullerton. (Tenured as of August 2022. Woohoo!)
I earned my PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, my MA at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and had a fellowship at Saint Louis University, participating in their Intellectual Humility Project. Before CSUF, I taught at Kansas State University.
I mostly research extremism, evidence, and social epistemology. I teach epistemology, logic, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and extremism. I am a first-generation college graduate, committed to helping other first-generation students succeed. To that end, I created and continue to develop the "First-Generation CSUF Philosophy Student Workshop."
When I'm not working, I'm probably pretending with my daughter, cycling, listening to a podcast, playing a board game, or solving murder mysteries (in a variety of formats). I used to cook for fun. One day I will again cook for fun. I recently discovered that Kant is my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-philosophical-grandfather.
My last name: Like me, it is Italian. The proper spelling is: 'DiPaolo' (no space). The proper pronunciation is (close to): dee-POW-low. But it's fine to say: di-PAUL-o. If you don't get it right, don't worry: I'm used to it.
I earned my PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, my MA at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and had a fellowship at Saint Louis University, participating in their Intellectual Humility Project. Before CSUF, I taught at Kansas State University.
I mostly research extremism, evidence, and social epistemology. I teach epistemology, logic, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and extremism. I am a first-generation college graduate, committed to helping other first-generation students succeed. To that end, I created and continue to develop the "First-Generation CSUF Philosophy Student Workshop."
When I'm not working, I'm probably pretending with my daughter, cycling, listening to a podcast, playing a board game, or solving murder mysteries (in a variety of formats). I used to cook for fun. One day I will again cook for fun. I recently discovered that Kant is my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-philosophical-grandfather.
My last name: Like me, it is Italian. The proper spelling is: 'DiPaolo' (no space). The proper pronunciation is (close to): dee-POW-low. But it's fine to say: di-PAUL-o. If you don't get it right, don't worry: I'm used to it.