Caroline Wall is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University who works in ethics, value theory, and 19th-century history of philosophy. She has published on Nietzsche’s account of value creation, and her current projects draw from figures such as Hegel, Scheler, and Cavell to respond to contemporary work in ethics. Link to your website: https://www.caroline-wall.com What are you working on right now? Too much. The main project right now is the dissertation: I’m trying to make the case that we should be concerned with cultivating not just human or universal virtues, but also individual virtues. My argument for this has three basic steps. First, having any ethical virtue involves, as a constitutive part, perceiving a relevant range of values correctly (e.g., part of being courageous is ascertaining what really is fearful, threatening, etc.). Second, values depend in part on what we are like as subjects. Third, and last, there are more specific kinds than humankind to which we belong that bear on what we’re like as subjects. I’m on a few other sidequests at the moment. …

Stacy S. Chen is a PhD candidate and SSHRC doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Her research interests are in clinical ethics and global health ethics, informed by her background in international relations and bioethics. Professional Website:  www.stacyschen.com What are you working on right now? My doctoral research explores how decisions can be shaped in medical decision-making, and how this shaping impacts the physician-patient relationship and the process of informed consent. A central topic of my work is that the validity of a choice is not determined only by the nature of the options, but also by how the decision-making environment is constructed. Beyond my dissertation work in clinical bioethics, I am also interested in public health ethics, especially issues related to patient advocacy for immigrant and minority communities. What are you most proud of in your professional life? Since I work mostly in applied ethics, many of my students have little to no prior experience with philosophy. It makes me proud when my …

Emanuele Costa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His work is at the intersection of early modern philosophy and metaphysics, and he has recently published his first monograph, The Structure of Spinoza’s World (Oxford University Press, 2025). What are you most proud of in your professional life? I have recently received one of the sweetest teaching evaluations ever—a student who clearly connected with my pedagogical approach and said that my course helped them fulfill their aspirations in our graduate program—“not just learning more about philosophy through studying philosophy but, moreover, to learn more about the world through studying philosophy.” I admit that I teared up. I take great pride in my teaching, and I work to improve my classes every semester; I have spent two summers studying pedagogy to become a better communicator and a more mindful practitioner of the art of sharing knowledge. What are you working on right now? I’m writing a Cambridge Elements on how Spinoza received and handled elements from the scholastic tradition, especially in metaphysical …

Phil Corkum is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta; he previously taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He works on ancient philosophy, the history of logic, and metaphysics; his Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics is now out with Cambridge University Press. http://philcorkum.com/Home.html Who is your favorite philosopher and why? Recently, after twenty-some years of teaching, a student finally approached me after the first class and asked who my favorite philosopher was. My response, waiting in readiness all these years—‘Me.’—did not impress. You, reader, are of course a close second. Who do you think is the most overrated/underrated philosopher?   I don’t know about ratings, either over- or under-. But the impact of a philosopher seems directly proportional to the ease with which their name admits of adjectival form. ‘Platonic’ rolls off the tongue. ‘Lewisian’ or ‘Rawlsian’ ain’t bad, either. On a side note: ‘Corkumian’? My career faces innate challenges; let’s just admit it. What are you working on right now? A venerable tradition in metaphysics holds that taking metaphysical inquiry to be objective, and so …

Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University, UK. She has been Executive Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly since 2021, and serves as a member of the APA’s LGBTQ representation committee. Her books include Reading Plato’s Theaetetus (Hackett 2004), Knowing What To Do (OUP 2014), Epiphanies (OUP 2022), Trans Figured (Polity Press 2024), and A Philosopher Looks At Friendship (CUP 2024). She has also published a collection of poems, Songs For Winter Rain (Ellipsis Imprints 2024), and a new verse translation of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (Ellipsis Imprints 2024). She recently completed her new verse translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia, and hopes to find a publisher for it soon. She lives in Dundee in Scotland, and climbs, skis, cycles, and plays the piano. OUPPS (Open University People Profile System) (PDF) Directory to my publications What is your favorite thing that you’ve written? The serious answer is Epiphanies (PDF) Introducing Epiphanies. A more flippant answer (which often feels true) is “Whatever I wrote last.” This Sappho translation isn’t quite the last thing I wrote, but …