Jaime Castillo-Gamboa
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Jaime Castillo-Gamboa holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Southern California, and a master's in philosophy and a BA in humanities from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. His research focuses on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, with particular interest in social metaphysics, the metaphysics of material objects, vagueness, and the semantics of proper names. Castillo-Gamboa is a founding member of Theorema, a Peruvian organization dedicated to promoting analytic philosophy in Peru and Latin America. At Hamilton, he is eager to teach courses in logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of fiction.
Recent Courses Taught
Philosophy of Fiction
Symbolic Logic
Selected Publications
- “Being tall compared to compared to being tall and being taller?”, Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 1, 2021, pp. 78-89, (with Alexis Wellwood and Deniz Rudin)
- Soames, Scott (2019) El surgimiento de la filosof?a anal?tica. Frege, Moore, Russell y Wittgenstein. Madrid: Tecnos (with Pamela Lastres, Francisco Melgar and Eduardo Villanueva)
Appointed to the Faculty
2025Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Southern California
M.A., Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
B.A., Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
