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Why I Believe In Numbers
My colleague Jonathan Tallant asks me to explain why I believe in numbers. This video is one of a series of interviews with Nottingham philosophers created by Jonathan as part of an undergraduate metaphysics course.
UBC philosopher untangles the mysteries of love
In her new book, What Love Is, UBC philosophy professor Carrie Jenkins explores the biological and societal origins of that most human of emotions: Love. And rather than revel in its mysteries, she is urging us to think critically about what it is--and what it is not.
Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins: Knowing Our Own Hearts Self Reporting and the Science of Love
Dr Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins (University of British Columbia) Sixth Annual Graduate Epistemology Conference
'Philosophers on Film' Interview at NIP
Federico Luzzi asks me some questions about being a philosopher and I tell him what I think about intellectual novelty, being a middle-manager with no training and philosophers going 'hear ye' in the TLS. Part of this series: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/nip/page?id=58
CBC, May 14, 2015Radio/Podcast
Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Canada Research Chair in philosophy at UBC, argues that schools should talk about love because it's something we value highly but don't understand properly...
Roundhouse Radio, December 15, 2016Radio/Podcast
URL: http://cirh.streamon.fm/listen-pl-6845
Host Minelle Mahtani talks about love with Canada Research Chair and Professor Carrie Jenkins.
CBC Radio Early Edition, February 12, 2016Radio/Podcast
URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/programs/theearlyedition/modern-love-part-4-1.3445859
Is romance lost in the modern dating age?
What's love got to do with sex ed? Maybe everything
Globe and Mail, May 15, 2015Online
URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/try-it-now/?articleId=24456722
Ontario schools are introducing a new sex ed curriculum this September, one that covers topics such as sexting and consent as opposed merely to the mechanics of sex. Predictably, some parents are vocally outraged...
Valentine's Day advice for the single person
CBC, February 14, 2016Online
URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/valentine-day-advice-for-the-single-person-1.3446971
Ichikawa Jenkins studies the metaphysics of love at UBC. "There is this perception that we can't understand love, and that it's really mysterious. Nothing we do is going to get us any closer to figuring out what it is, and you have to let it go and not overthink it. " "Actually, we're underthinking love. If we had more of an opportunity to get into the philosophical questions, like, 'what is this thing?', 'where does it come from?'...I think that could really help people who are struggling with living up to expectations."...
UBC Profs Organize Sexual Assault Conference Amid Scandal
The Huffington Post, February 14, 2016Online
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/02/14/ubc-sexual-assault-policy_n_9233412.html
Philosophy professor Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins said the conference was one of many suggestions that emerged when a group of concerned UBC faculty members met in December...
She wants to know what love is
University of British Columbia, February 10, 2016Online
URL: http://news.ubc.ca/2015/02/10/she-wants-to-know-what-love-is/
Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, a Canada Research Chair in philosophy, is the brain behind the multi-year ‘The Metaphysics of Love Project.’ As part of her analytical look into passions of the heart, Jenkins is inviting the public to contribute their observations and experiences of romantic love using the Twitter hashtag #romanticloveis “Metaphysics is the inquiry into the nature of reality, what’s real and what isn’t, what’s natural and what isn’t, what’s fundamental and what isn’t,” explains the young purple-haired professor, who certainly doesn’t fit the stereotype of the bearded, brooding male thinker...
Exploring The Metaphysics Of Love
npr, February 16, 2015Online
URL: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/02/16/386750965/exploring-the-metaphysics-of-love
"Is love an emotion? An experience? Is it a kind of desire? Is it possible to love a fictional person? To love more than one person? Is romantic love fundamentally different from other kinds of love?"
Don't mix up love with marriage
Globe and Mail, July 2, 2015Online
URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/try-it-now/?articleId=25216818
Last Friday, my social media exploded in rainbow hearts and bubbled over with messages that "love just won." #lovewins suddenly became a top trending hashtag on Twitter, because love is love, right?...
What Love Is And What It Could Be
by Carrie Jenkins
Basic Books
What Is Love? An Incomplete Map of the Metaphysics
Published by Journal of the American Philosophical Association
2015 The paper begins by surveying a range of possible views on the metaphysics of romantic love, organizing them as responses to a single question. It then outlines a position, constructionist functionalism, according to which romantic love is characterized by a functional role that is at least partly constituted by social matters (social institutions, traditions, and practices), although this role may be realized by states that are not socially constructed.
URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S2053447715000044
What Can We Know A Priori?
Published by Current Controversies in Epistemology
2014 Michael Devitt has been developing an influential two-pronged attack on the a priori for over thirteen years. This attack does not attempt to undermine the coherence or significance of the distinction between the a priori and the a posteriori, but rather to answer the question “What can we know a priori?” with: “Nothing.”...
The traditional conception of the a priori
Published by Synthese
2015 In this paper, we explore the traditional conception of a prioricity as epistemic independence of evidence from sense experience. We investigate the fortunes of the traditional conception in the light of recent challenges by Timothy Williamson. We contend that Williamson's arguments can be resisted in various ways. En route, we argue that Williamson's views are not as distant from tradition (in particular, from Kant) as they might seem at first glance.
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-013-0394-x
Serious Verbal Disputes: Ontology, Metaontology, and Analyticity
Published by The Journal of Philosophy
2014 I will be considering whether ODS is true on the assumption that recent disputes about the existence of ordinary objects are reasonably representative of “typical” ontological disputes. Although ontological disputes are many and varied, I do in fact think the dispute over the existence of ordinary objects is reasonably typical of a fairly wide class of ontological disputes (which is not to say it is representative of all of them). For that reason, I think many of the issues I discuss here are generalizable to other ontological disputes and the case of ...
URL: http://www.pdcnet.org/jphil/content/jphil_2014_0111_42257_0454_0469
Epistemological Naturalisms
Published by The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism
2015 One traditionally prominent kind of epistemological naturalism centers on the rejection of a priori knowledge. Its motivating idea is that the very idea of a priori knowledge is unscientific, because science is a purely empirical enterprise. Since anything that is unscientific is thereby unacceptable to a naturalist, the thought continues, epistemological naturalists must reject the a priori. Something like this line of thought has also been applied to epistemic normativity and armchair knowledge, both of which have been treated as similarly inimical ...
Biography
Carrie Jenkins is a writer and philosopher based in Vancouver, BC. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Jenkins studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has held academic posts at the University of St Andrews, the Australian National University, the University of Michigan, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Aberdeen. At UBC, Jenkins heads up a SSHRC-funded project on The Nature of Romantic Love. Her new book, What Love Is And What It Could Be, is out now with Basic Books (NY).
Recognition/Reconnaissance
American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op Ed Contest Award | Professional
Winner 2016 American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op Ed Contest Award