Member Interviews

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APA Member Interview: Sam Berstler

Sam Berstler is currently thinking about the nature, dynamics, and ethics of conversation.  She is the inaugural Desai Family Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer...
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APA Member Interview: Samuel Bennett

Samuel Bennett is a PhD Candidate in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University working on ancient Greek philosophy and virtue ethics. In his spare...
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APA Member Interview: Ben Birkenstock

Ben Birkenstock is completing his MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities in the philosophy stream at Trinity Western University in Vancouver, Canada. Ben was born in...
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APA Member Interview: Shawn Simpson

Shawn Simpson is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York.  His dissertation focuses on communication, its evolution, and...
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APA Member Interview: Sabrina D. MisirHiralall

Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall is an editor at the Blog of the APA who currently teaches philosophy, religion, and education courses solely online for...
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Student Snapshot: Fernando Alvear

Fernando Alvear is a Philosophy PhD student at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri. He mainly works on issues at the intersection of Epistemology and...

Student Snapshot: Sarah Horne

Sarah graduated SUNY Oneonta in 2019 with a dual degree in History and Philosophy. One of her fondest memories from college was interning with...
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APA Member Interview: Kian Mintz-Woo

Kian Mintz-Woo is a moral philosopher; his work focuses on the applied ethics in climate change and health but also includes topics in metaethics...
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Margaret Baxley: What is it like to be a philosopher?

This is an excerpt from an interview with Margaret Baxley.  In this interview, Anne Margaret Baxley talks about growing up Methodist in Macon, Georgia,...
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Student Snapshot: Emerson Bodde

Emerson Bodde is a PhD student in the philosophy program at Vanderbilt University. His research interests mainly revolve around the history of political philosophy...