AMA Announcement: Monday 12/12 4PM EST - Carrie Jenkins (UBC) on
epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of love
Abstract
As previously announced, /r/philosophy is hosting an AMA series this
fall semester which kicked off with AMAs by Caspar Hare, Kevin Scharp,
Kenneth Ehrenberg, Geoff Pynn, the Wi-Phi: Wireless Philosophy team,
Stephen Puryear and Roy T Cook. Check out our series announcement post
to see all the AMAs from this semester. We finish off our fall series
this upcoming Monday with an AMA by Carrie Jenkins (UBC). Hear it from
her: Carrie Jenkins I’m Carrie Jenkins, a writer and philosopher based
in Vancouver, BC. I am a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at the
University of British Columbia, the Principal Investigator on the SSHRC
funded project The Nature of Love, and a Co-Investigator on the John
Templeton Foundation funded project Knowledge Beyond Natural Science. I
studied philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, and since then have
worked at the University of St Andrews, the Australian National
University, the University of Michigan, the University of Nottingham,
and the University of Aberdeen. From 2011 to 2016, I was one of three
principal editors of the award-winning philosophy journal Thought. I
recently won an American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op
Ed Contest award. This year I am also a student again, working towards
an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. My
philosophical interests have stubbornly refused to be pinned down over
the years. Broadly speaking they include epistemology, metaphysics,
philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic and language, and
philosophy of love. But I’m basically interested in everything. My first
book was on a priori arithmetical knowledge, and my second is on the
nature of romantic love. I have written papers on knowledge,
explanation, realism, flirting, epistemic normativity, modality,
concepts, dispositions, naturalism, paradoxes, intuitions, and verbal
disputes … among other things! A lot of my recent work is about
love, because in addition to its intrinsic interest I see some urgency
to the need for more and better critical thinking about this topic. Some
Links of Interest NPR 13.7 Interview - Exploring the Metaphysics of Love
Globe and Mail article - What’s Love Got to do With Sex? Maybe
Everything, winner, APA Public Philosophy Op Ed Contest 2016 Elle Canada
- New Ideas on Love CBC podcast interview on love and sex ed Review of
new book What Love Is and What It Could Be AMA Professor Jenkins will
join us Monday for a live Q&A on her research interests on Monday at
4PM EST. Please feel free to post questions for her here. She will look
at this thread before she starts and begin with some questions from here
while the initial questions in the new thread come in. Please join me in
welcoming Professor Jenkins to our community!