I am Carrie Jenkins, writer and philosopher based in Vancouver, BC. AMA
anything about philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology and the
philosophy of love!
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Thanks so much everyone for your questions! I’m out of time now. 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’m the author of a new
book releasing on January 24, 2017 on the philosophy of love, What Love
Is And What It Could Be, available for pre-order now. 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. My proof has been verified
with the mods of /r/philosophy. Some Links of Interest Amazon link to
new book What Love Is And What It Could Be, available for pre-order now,
releasing January 24, 2017 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