APA Member Interview: Mary-kate Boyle

Mary-kate Boyle is an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is currently interested in ethics, German idealism, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Mary-kate organizes and directs an after-school philosophy program for students of Lincoln Northwest High School. Please email her directly for her independent work in philosophy. What are you most proud of […]

APA Member Interview: Ian MacDonald

Ian MacDonald is an educator and writer at the University of Waterloo who investigates the interrelations between inquiry, meaning, and methods. He focuses on the writings of Peirce, Clifford, and Welby and defended his dissertation, Communal Inferentialism: Charles S. Peirce’s Critique of Epistemic Individualism, in 2019. What’s your favorite quote?  “We have created a Star […]

APA Member Interview: Trevor Adams

Trevor Adams is a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His primary research interests are epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. His dissertation is focused on the nature and rationality of hope. What excites you about philosophy? Since philosophy is both an individual and group activity I think there are really two […]

APA Member Interview: Rebeccah Leiby

Rebeccah Leiby is the Hoffberger Ethics Fellow at the University of Baltimore’s Hoffberger Center for Ethical Engagement (previously, the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics). She completed her Ph.D. in 2022 at Boston University, where she defended a dissertation entitled “Towards a Contractualist Theory of Transitional Justice.” What are you working on right now?  In addition […]

What It’s Like to be a Philosopher

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with philosophers. The following is an edited excerpt from the interview with David Pearce.  [interviewer: Cliff Sosis] In this interview, independent philosopher David Pearce talks about his grandparents who took in refugees from Kindertransport, […]

APA Member Interview: Michael Kirley

Michael Kirley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in the philosophy of action. He also has interests in moral psychology, normative ethics, and ancient philosophy. What excites you about philosophy? The questions people care most about are philosophical in character, and nothing […]

APA Member Interview: Jeff Hawley

Jeff Hawley graduated from University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Philosophy at Rutgers-Camden. His research interests include Philosophy of Sound, Epicureanism, and Logical Positivism.  What excites you about philosophy? Although it may sound cliché, the more philosophy […]

APA Member Interview: Alice Huang

Alice Huang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto. She is interested in social and formal epistemology and curious about applications of computational methods to philosophy. What is your favorite thing that you’ve written? In philosophy, my favorite thing that I’ve written is a paper called “A normative comparison of threshold views through […]

APA Member Interview: Phil Groth

Phil Groth is a Ph.D. Candidate in the philosophy department at UC Santa Cruz, working on philosophy of mind & perception, and epistemology. He received his B.A. in philosophy from George Fox University in 2018. What are you most proud of in your professional life? Last year I had a wonderful opportunity to work with […]

APA Member Interview: Andriy Bilenkyy

Andriy Bilenkyy is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department of Philosophy. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, his research is situated at the intersection of aesthetics, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. In his dissertation, Andriy focuses on themes, the cognitively and aesthetically significant properties that we seem […]

APA Member Interview: Kellan Head

Kellan Head is a Ph.D. student at Syracuse University. His interests are largely metaethical: Kellan’s research primarily examines normativity and the nature of value, especially in the epistemic realm. He is also interested in theories of well-being. What is your favorite book of all time? Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. It’s a fairly short novel published […]

APA Member Interview: Eric Shoemaker

Eric Shoemaker is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in democratic theory and the philosophy of law, and his work thus far has focused on the topic of the political applications of random selection. Eric completed his JD at the University of Toronto in 2020. Eric has taught […]

APA Member Interview: Troy Seagraves

Troy Seagraves is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Purdue University, entering his fifth year in the program. His research is in metaethics and normative ethics, focusing on how agent-relative facts contribute to a permissivism for actions. What are you most proud of in your professional life? I’ve a heart for teaching and helping students […]