Snow Zhang is a new faculty member in Philosophy who specializes in formal epistemology. Her research interests include philosophy of probability and statistics, decision theory, philosophy of science, and Chinese philosophy.
She received her PhD from Princeton University, and she served as a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at New York University before coming to Berkeley.
This semester she teaches Theory of Knowledge, an undergraduate course that asks what knowledge is and how we acquire it.
The Art and Ethnography working group is an experimental research collaborative focused on the ethnographic exploration of global art and media with perspectives from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, ethnomusicology, and political science.
The working group aims to push the boundaries of interdisciplinary dialogue, critically exploring the capacity of media and aesthetics as part of a mixed-methods ethnographic methodology.
Faculty Books
Bear's-Eye View is a chronicle of students' engagement with the vibrant humanities culture at the Townsend Center and across the Berkeley campus. Each semester our undergraduate humanities writer soaks up the wealth of humanities events and writes about what they've learned.
Our Spring 2025 writer was Emma Murphree, a senior from Monterrey. She tackled topics including illness and isolation in the films of Todd Haynes, Jaron Lanier's skeptical relationship to A.I. and social media, and the ways in which digital media affects our perception of war.