Stephen Harrop
  • Visiting Assistant Professor

Research Interests

  • Early Modern Accounts of Space and Motion
  • Mechanics
  • Scientific/Causal Explanation: Explanatory Rationalism

Biography

Stephen was born in Lima, Peru and grew up in South and Central America. He attended Austin Community College for two years before transferring to JHU in 2014, where he got undergraduate and graduate degrees. He then moved to Yale in 2017, and subsequently got his PhD with a dissertation on Spinoza’s account of scientific explanation.

Educational Background

  • B.A. in Philosophy, minor in Physics – The Johns Hopkins University – 2016
  • M.A. in Philosophy – The Johns Hopkins University – 2017
  • PhD in Philosophy – Yale University – 2022