Julia Minarik
(she/her)
Position:
Graduate Student
Campus:
St. George,Email Address:
Biography:
- BA (Honours), University of Manitoba (Philosophy & Economics)
- MA, University of Manitoba (Philosophy)
Julia is a PhD student in the department currently working at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence. Her dissertation project is on human creativity across the arts and the sciences in light of AI, with a focus on what recent advancements in AI can tell us about our own generative powers, our drive for knowledge, and our imagination. Methodologically, she harbours pragmatist inclinations.
Julia is currently the editor and adorner of the American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter.
She continues to cultivate an interest in formal logic and maintains an appreciation for the way engaging with it structures her approach to other areas of philosophy.