Anne Sophie Meincke

I am a philosopher working at the intersection of metaphysics, the philosophy of biology, and the philosophy of mind and action. I am convinced that bringing these fields together opens up new  perspectives on some of the most challenging philosophical problems. I also engage with debates in feminist philosophy and draw on the history of philosophy, especially Kant and European philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries. My research themes include personhood and personal identity, biological identity and the concept of life, agency and free will, dispositional realism, persistence, the nature of processes, the metaphysics of pregnancy, and meta-metaphysics. I have recently also started researching issues in environmental philosophy.

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Philosophy is the practice of thinking for oneself and thinking critically. It is also the discipline in which we dare to ask the big questions that matter for science, society, morality and our individual lives. As a public intellectual, I encourage everyone to engage in philosophical deliberation and dialogue. I enjoy sharing philosophical insights with wider audiences through regular public engagement and media contributions. As in my philosophical work, so too in my literary writing and art I explore new perspectives by connecting what has not yet been connected and by making visible what we often overlook - or even avoid seeing. My portfolio includes poetry, short stories, faction novel, photography, paintings and drawings.