In this interview, Briana Toole, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, talks about growing up in Chattahoochee, Florida, Left Behind, Crash Bandicoot, geometry, Greenpeace, beauty pageants, money anxiety, Myspace, 9/11, Florida State University and the Bright Futures scholarship, a difficult to comprehend accent, working evenings at TCBY, working with David McNaughton, a brutal but helpful epistemology TA, switching from law to philosophy, committing to grad school and going to University of Sheffield, her first snowfall, Jenny Saul, Teach for America and meeting her husband, pursuing a PhD at UT, sexism and the ‘golden boys’, grounding, complaining to her understanding dissertation advisor, standpoint epistemology, depression, a fellowship at MIT, Sally Haslanger, Corrupt the Youth, landing a position at Claremont McKenna College just before COVID hit, bouncing between positions before she landed in a green place, her Feminism for Men class, #metoo, Thi Ngyugen, The Poisonwood Bible, Zillow Gone Wild, and cornpone…
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