M. Folescu

I am a non-binary historian of philosophy, philosopher of language and mind, and freelance art journalist, working as an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Missouri. In first name contexts I go by "M", pronounced like "Em", and my pronouns are "they/them".

NEWS:

My paper Thomas Reid in Powers and Abilities is coming out as Chapter 16 in Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Sebastian Bender and Dominik Perler, and available at Routledge starting with June 2024.

This summer, I will give comments on David Landy's wonderful paper, Shepherd on Judgment, Predication, and the Representation of Causal Relations, as part of the 50th International Hume Society Conference, in Oxford, UK.

I have been commissioned to write a paper on Locke's legacy in British Philosophy, to be included in The Oxford Handbook of John Locke, edited by Patrick J. Connolly, and set to be published in 2025.

During the academic year 2022-2023, I was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (2022-2023). This was supported by the Humboldt Foundation's Fellowship for Experienced Researchers program.

During the academic year 2021-2022, I was on research leave from the University of Missouri. I spent part of that leave as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), in Edinburgh, UK. This was made possible by the University of Missouri's Research and Creative Works Strategic Investment Program, Tier 3 and the MU Research Council.

I earned my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Southern California (2013). Before starting graduate school in philosophy, I studied art history in Bucharest, Romania (BA, 2002) and London, Canada (MA, 2005.)

Much like G. E. Moore, beside common sense philosophy, I enjoy the simple pleasures of life: gardening, hiking, running in sandals, watching films, and going to art shows.