Education

2013 University of California Davis, BAS
2018 University of Virginia, M.A.
2020 University of Virginia, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

What is Real? How Do We Know? Why Should I Care?
AI Ethics
Minds, Brains and Metaphysics

Career Specialties

Torrance Fung's research is in the philosophy of mind, theory of knowledge and insights on these from the modern period onward, with relevance to AI. He is also interested in early Christianity. 

Professional and Community Activities

Recent:

2026 — 'Cognitive Experience and Artificial Intelligence' at University of Tampa
2026 — 'Artificial Intelligence Lecture' at Boise State University
2025 — 'Cognitive Phenomenology and the Arbitrariness Problem for Rationalism' in Synthese
2025 — 'Is the Christian God Sexist?' at College of Idaho Philosophy Club
2024 — 'Naive Realism and Color Primitivism' at American Philosophical Association, New York
2023 — 'Malebranche on Space, Time, and Divine Simplicity' in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
2022 — 'Naive Realism and Color Primitivism' at Virginia Philosophical Association, Lynchburg
2021 — 'Dialogue and Cognitive Phenomenology' in Erkenntnis

Honors and Awards

University of Virginia, Society of Fellows

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