Helena de Bres

Professor of Philosophy, Wellesley College

Helena de Bres is professor of philosophy at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She is the author of Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins (Bloomsbury, 2023).

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Two dark haired twin girls in tartan dresses look through an unglazed window frame

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Metaphysics

Both one and yet distinct

Being a twin (as our author knows) cracks open our ideas of the perfectly bounded self and might liberate us all

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History of ideas

Is philosophy absurd? Only when you’re doing it right

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