Brian A. Epstein

Brian Epstein is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Tufts University. He is known for his works on social ontology and is a winner of the Lakatos Award. He specializes in social ontology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of the social sciences.

Books Social Ontology, Cambridge University Press, 2025. The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences, Oxford University Press, 2015. Cambridge Companion to the Metaphysics of Law (co-edited with George Pavlakos and Corrado Roversi), Cambridge University Press, expected publication 2026. The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology (co-edited with Sally Haslanger, Stephanie Collins, and Hans-Bernhard Schmid), Oxford University Press, expected publication 2025.