​Ron Mallon

​Ron Mallon

Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology
PhD, Rutgers University
research interests:
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science
  • Experimental Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Science and Social Science
  • Social and Political Theory
  • Ethics

contact info:

mailing address:

  • Washington University

    CB 1073

    One Brookings Drive

    St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Professor Mallon's current research interests include social constructionist claims and the role that culturally transmitted moral rules play in moral reasoning.​

Selected Publications Mallon, R. (2016).  The Construction of Human Kinds. Oxford University Press. Mallon, R. (2016.) “Experimental Philosophy.” Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, ed. Herman Cappelen, John Hawthorne, and Tamar Szabó Gendler. Mallon R. “Stereotype Threat and Persons” (2016) Implicit Biases.  Ed. Michael Brownstein and Jenny Saul.  Oxford University Press. Mallon, R. (2015.) “Social Construction and Achieving Reference.” Noûs. Nichols, S., Á. Pinillos, and R. Mallon.  (Forthcoming.)  “Referential Ambiguity.”  Mind. Mallon, R.  (2015.) "Performed Categories, Self Explanation and Agency.”  Philosophical Studies. Mallon, R.  (2013.) “Was Race Thinking Invented in the Modern West?”  Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part A) Volume 44, Issue 1, March 2013, pp. 77–88. Mallon, R. and J. Doris (2013). The Science of Ethics. Blackwell Companion to Ethics. H. LaFollette and I. Persson. Oxford, Blackwell.