New Faculty: Kyle Banick
Please join us in congratulating Kyle Banick on his appointment this FA26 as a new Assistant Professor of Philosophy—the third hired in the last three years.
Dr. Banick was among the inaugural cohort of faculty who participated in the lecturer reclassification pilot program, and so is a familiar face around these parts. He earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Philosophy from Chapman University, and was a Mellon Faculty Fellow on his way to completing the Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of ÀóÖ¦ÊÓƵIrvine. In his doctoral dissertation, he began with critique of the monotonicity constraint on the Halbach-Welch technique, argued that we should reconceive the concept of perceptual reference using modal operators and substitutional quantification, and then developed these ideas into a formal semantics for a logic of event adverbialism.
As a scholar of Husserlian phenomenology, with additional interests in modal and mathematical logics, Dr. Banick specializes in how formal systems of inference relate to our experience of the world. Recent publications include '', which was published in 2025 in the European Journal of Philosophy, and '', which was published in the 2025 collection, Phenomenology of Essences. His current book project is tentatively entitled The Limits of Formal Logic in Husserl's Phenomenology.
Dr. Banick teaches a variety of topics in and around philosophical logic, philosophy of language, phenomenology and the philosophy of mind, and the history of analytic philosophy. This FA26, in addition to Puzzles and Paradoxes (PHIL130), he is offering a special-topics course (PHIL492/592) on Heidegger for the centenary of his seminal Sein und Zeit. In SP26, he will teach Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL100) and give a graduate seminar (PHIL690) on recent developments in phenomenology and cognitive science.
Please join is in congratulating and welcoming Assistant Professor Kyle Banick.
