Dr. Stacie Friend
A new recruit to the Heythrop Philosophy Department, Dr. Stacie Friend (she's on the left) is a fast talker with, thankfully, lots of interesting things to say. Those of you in your second year will immediately recognise the smile. For those in your third, this is what Kirt Bradhorst might have been. And for those in your first, this, my dear impressionables, is what you are building up to.
[ PhD in Philosophy from Stanford too, a smile with credentials no less .. ]
A short biography, unapologetically pulled from Google:
Stacie Friend's research is located at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language and mind, especially as these pertain to problems raised by our engagement with fictional narratives. She has published in the British Journal of Aesthetics and in Philosophical Perspectives, as well as in collections on topics in aesthetics and the theory of reference. Her papers address such issues as emotional responses to fictional characters, the meaning of empty names, the acquisition of knowledge from fictional texts, the possibility of tragic pleasure from documentaries, and the implications of semantic deference. A theme of current research is that many philosophical puzzles putatively about fiction arise as well in works of non-fiction, and are thus best understood as puzzles about narrative more generally. Friend has held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Chateaubriand Scholarship for Doctoral Research from the French government. She currently teaches at Heythrop College, University of London, after having taught for two years at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Miami in Florida, and a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University.
A little teaser from the Birkbeck Philosophy Society
A link to the Birkbeck Philosophy Society (in case you wanted to go)
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