Amanda Evans

Professor Evans is a philosopher of mind and psychiatry. Her research is dedicated to the philosophical study of mental disorders and the insights it can give us into human agency and the self. Dr. Evans will teach a range of courses on these topics, including Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Mind, and a future course on the philosophy of addiction. She grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. Before joining Macalester, she held two postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp and at Washington University in St. Louis, and was a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh.