The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that at its meeting last fall, the APA board of officers elected Prof. Marya Schechtman the association’s next board chair. Schechtman, who will succeed Prof. R. Lanier Anderson of Stanford University, will begin her three-year term on July 1, 2026.
Marya Schechtman is LAS Distinguished Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago. She was president of the Central Division in 2023–2024 and served on the Central Division Executive Committee in 2010–2013 and 2022–2025. Schechtman is an affiliate of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Illinois Chicago and an associate member of the Centre for the Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes (2021–present). She was an associate dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago (2011–2021), associate editor of Philosophical Explorations (2008–2012), a member of the editorial board of Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy, and a member of the international advisory board of Centro Internacional de Neurociencia y Ética.
