About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at Utah State University. My areas of specialization are early modern philosophy and philosophy of religion, with a focus on the religious epistemology of John Locke. 

My interests beyond that are pretty wide-ranging, spanning both Western and Eastern traditions. In the West, I'm most drawn to the Hellenistic schools (Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism), Boethius, the medieval Christian mystics, Montaigne, late modern thinkers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard, and more recent movements like existentialism and pragmatism. In the East, I have a particular appreciation for thinkers like Adi Shankara, Nagarjuna, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Email alexander.barrientos@usu.edu

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