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Reason & Rationality Faculty
At the heart of Reason & Rationality are two-hour seminars where scholars from leading programs draw students into the habits, challenges, and satisfactions of real philosophical inquiry.
Peter Bach-y-Rita
DEAN OF ACADEMICS
Peter Bach-y-Rita: Ph.D., MIT (Philosophy), J.D. Stanford Law School, A.B. Princeton University (highest honors). Dr. Bach-y-Rita's dissertation at MIT was at the intersection of ethics, biology and technology. He has published work on intellectual property, bankruptcy law, and the nature of legal causation. He co-founded Reason & Rationality in 2023.
Joe earned a BA in Philosophy with highest distinction from Purdue University and is currently a Philosophy PhD student at Princeton University. He has published 16 articles on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics in leading peer-reviewed philosophy journals. He also authored the books Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs (with Dr. Daniel Linford) and The Majesty of Reason: A Short Guide to Critical Thinking in Philosophy. On the popular level, he creates lecture videos and hosts discussions with philosophers on his YouTube channel Majesty of Reason. His videos have attracted nearly 1.5 million views in total.
Joseph Schmid
SENIOR TEACHING FELLOW
HEAD OF INSTRUCTION
Noah McKay
TEACHING FELLOW
Noah is a PhD student in philosophy at Princeton University. He earned his BA in philosophy from Covenant College (summa cum laude) and his MSc in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh (First Class Honours). He has published several peer-reviewed academic articles about epistemology, metaethics, and philosophy of religion and presented original research at about a dozen conferences. He has also coached high school debate for seven years.
Florence is a Philosophy PhD student at Harvard University. She received a BS in mathematics and physics from the University of Michigan in 2018, and an MA in philosophy from Tufts University in 2020. Her current work concerns the nature of rational agency and free will and what that has to do with the foundations of ethics, in particular influenced by the moral theory of Immanuel Kant.
Florence Bacus
TEACHING FELLOW
Sophia Wyatt
TEACHING FELLOW
Sophia received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 2021 and entered the Ph.D. program there in Fall 2025. Her primary interests lie in ethics and epistemology, particularly at their intersection.
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