Anne Sophie Meincke

I am a philosopher specialising in theoretical philosophy. My research focuses primarily on metaphysics, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mind and action, and feminist philosophy. I am particularly interested in the intersections between these fields, which I see as offering new perspectives on some of philosophy’s most challenging problems. I combine systematic philosophical inquiry with engagement with the history of philosophy, especially Aristotle, Kant, and European philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My research interests 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, feminist metaphysics, and meta-metaphysics. More recently, I have also begun to explore questions 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 professor and public intellectual, I encourage not only my students but 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 bringing together what has not yet been brought together and by making visible what we often overlook or even avoid seeing. My portfolio includes poetry, short stories, faction novels, photography, paintings, and drawings.