{"id":144,"date":"2024-11-25T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:33:40","slug":"current-postdoctoral-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/current-postdoctoral-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Postdoctoral Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Want to become a postdoctoral fellow? Check out the &#8220;opportunities&#8221; tab!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Dr. Ian Olasov<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">email: ianolasov@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:32% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1005\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/files\/2025\/09\/Profile-1-1005x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-540 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/files\/2025\/09\/Profile-1-1005x1024.jpg 1005w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/files\/2025\/09\/Profile-1-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/files\/2025\/09\/Profile-1-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/files\/2025\/09\/Profile-1-1508x1536.jpg 1508w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/files\/2025\/09\/Profile-1.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Ian Olasov is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Lethbridge. His research interests are wide-ranging &#8212; spanning stereotype change, critical philosophy of language, the theory and practice of public philosophy, moral psychology, and the philosophy of journalism &#8212; but revolve around questions about speech in the public interest. He is the author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Ask-Philosopher-Important-Unexpected-Questions\/dp\/1250756170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions<\/a><\/em> (St. Martin&#8217;s: 2020) and a co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/book\/10.1002\/9781119635253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Companion to Public Philosophy<\/a><\/em> (Wiley: 2022). He is also serving as the President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicphilosophynetwork.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Philosophy Network<\/a>, an organization that supports and develops resources for people doing publicly engaged philosophy, from 2023 to 2026. Current writing projects include a paper on how philosophy can reenchant the modern world, a paper about why we might want to change people&#8217;s stereotypes, a paper on philosophical expertise, and a book about understanding politically significant speech and how to tell when the politics of language really matters. Current public philosophy projects include planning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicphilosophynetwork.net\/2025conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conferences<\/a> and workshops,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicphilosophynetwork.net\/syllabusassignmentarchive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Public Philosophy Syllabus and Assignment Archive<\/a>, a collection of Guides to Public Philosophy, and a white paper on supporting public philosophy through academic hiring and promotion. When he&#8217;s not thinking about philosophy (and sometimes when he is), he&#8217;s running, cooking, or Zooming with his\u00a0partner in Brooklyn and their two dogs Patty and Scrapple. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to become a postdoctoral fellow? Check out the &#8220;opportunities&#8221; tab! Dr. Ian Olasov email: ianolasov@gmail.com Ian Olasov is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Lethbridge. His research interests are wide-ranging &#8212; spanning stereotype change, critical philosophy of language, the theory and practice of public philosophy, moral psychology, and the philosophy of journalism &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/current-postdoctoral-fellows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Current Postdoctoral Fellows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/ctce-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}