Pathways Mentors

Nathifa Greene

An interest in philosophy of mind, particularly the study of emotion, informs my writing on topics in aesthetics and politics.

Currently, I am writing papers on aesthetic judgment, based on Kant's Critique of Judgment and Aristotle's Poetics. However, I read widely, including work on scientific philosophy and the philosophy of language. I tend to think contextually, considering where arguments and schools of thought fit in the history of philosophy. The study of language is illuminating, in that regard.

This breadth is a function of my background as much as an intellectual orientation. I grew up in five different countries, and I speak Spanish, Portuguese and French fluently.

I gained a BA in Philosophy from Gettysburg College (USA), spending a semester at Lancaster University (UK) during that time. I moved to Brussels in 2004, where I studied at CERIS (Centre Europeen des Recherches Internationales et Strategiques), a division of the University of Paris XI in Brussels, for an MA in International Politics.

After completing my degree I lived worked with a Christian nonprofit organization, organizing volunteers, in Brussels.

Committed to further study in Philosophy, I am eager to pursue these research interests further, and exactly how these diverse academic interests develop and unfold remains to be seen. In the meantime, I live, work, and write in Miami, hoping to meet a nice PhD program and settle down one day.