Branden Fitelson is currently Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich. Before teaching at Rutgers and LMU, Branden held teaching positions at UC-Berkeley, San José State, and Stanford. Branden got his MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before getting into philosophy, Branden studied math and physics at UW-Madison, and he worked as a research scientist for a NASA contractor.