Rachel K. Cooper

Mellon Faculty Fellow
University of California, Irvine


Rachel K. Cooper

I’m a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at University of California, Irvine. My research is focused on topics in social metaphysics and social epistemology, and their connections with philosophy of language, mind, and science. I earned my PhD in philosophy from UC Irvine in June of 2023.

My work is animated by my interest in understanding what a distinctively social explanation could be, and what the implications of such an explanation might be.