Emma Fieser is presently a second-year philosophy PhD scholar on the College of Illinois at Chicago. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts diploma in her hometown on the College of Tennessee at Martin the place she majored in philosophy and minored in French and studio artwork.
What excites you about philosophy?
Studying new concepts and views, and instructing individuals find out how to use the instruments philosophy offers us to critically assume. Philosophy has a lot worth to present to everybody, not simply these concerned about it. We will achieve a lot merely by studying find out how to assume in numerous methods, and I’d prefer to unfold that ability to as many individuals as I can.
If a crystal ball might let you know the reality about your self, your life, the long run, or the rest, what would you wish to know?
I’d ask the crystal ball one thing inconsequential akin to if I’ll like the brand new Batman film that’s in theaters. That method I can know if I ought to spend cash to go see it or wait till it’s on HBO Max. I’d by no means ask the ball something essential about my future as a result of the chance of discovering out one thing dangerous isn’t value it.
What do you love to do outdoors work?
I take pleasure in touring and dealing on totally different artwork initiatives. I prefer to discover new places and journey to as many locations as I can (Covid keen). As with touring I prefer to strive new issues and infrequently transfer via totally different mediums of craft, from felting or sculpting to digital artwork. One among my minors in undergrad was in studio artwork and I’d like to keep up the abilities I believe I acquired throughout that point.
What would your childhood self say if somebody informed you that you’d develop as much as be a thinker?
My childhood self wouldn’t be shocked, philosophy was all the time on the desk and something in academia is best than a 9-5 in a company workplace.
The place is your favourite place you will have ever traveled and why?
For fall break again in undergrad I took a visit to Pompeii. To have a chance to stroll round a Roman metropolis, to see their homes and fast-food eating places was actually a mind-blowing expertise. It was reminder that though they lived nearly two thousand years in the past, we actually aren’t that a lot totally different than them.
What’s your favourite quote?
“I would like to not” from Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. Whereas I don’t assume this quote represents some aspect of myself in any significant method, I do discover it to be a really helpful phrase to make use of in my on a regular basis life; for instance, once I’d desire to not do one thing.
What trigger or charity do you care about most?
Proper now, the most important trigger I care about helps my area people in West Tennessee and South West Kentucky that was hit by a sequence of lethal tornados in December of 2021. Whereas the media solely lined the twister harm for a few week, the harm stays, and restoration is sluggish going due to the remoteness of the world. Although I can’t be there bodily for the time being, I attempt to assist my pals and neighbors who misplaced every little thing as a lot as I can.
Wild card: What life occasion modified the best way you see the world?
Just a few years in the past, I labored as an intern for a senator in my dwelling state’s capitol. I discovered that the officers operating our state authorities had little concern for individuals with totally different life experiences, significantly those that didn’t mirror their very own household upbringing. Additionally they displayed no real interest in studying concerning the struggles of their much less lucky constituents. This gave me a extra reasonable sense of what to anticipate from our authorities.
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