"Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University, UK. She has been Executive Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly since 2021, and serves as a member of the APA's LGBTQ representation committee. Her books include Reading Plato's Theaetetus (Hackett 2004), Knowing What To Do (OUP 2014), Epiphanies (OUP 2022), Trans Figured (Polity Press 2024), and A Philosopher Looks At Friendship (CUP 2024)."
"It was Plato and Socrates who first got me excited about philosophy, and then Heracleitus and Parmenides. So, then I decided to try, at about the age of nine, to write a complete account Of What There Is. I was just getting going on this when I noticed Aquinas's Summa Theologica in Bolton Town Library and realized to my annoyance that someone had beaten me to it. Never mind, I've come to love Aquinas too."
Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University and Executive Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly. She serves on the APA's LGBTQ representation committee. Publications include works on Plato, ethics, friendship, trans issues, and poetry: Reading Plato's Theaetetus; Knowing What To Do; Epiphanies; Trans Figured; A Philosopher Looks At Friendship; Songs For Winter Rain; verse translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Dante's Divina Commedia. She lives in Dundee, Scotland, and enjoys climbing, skiing, cycling, and playing piano. She considers Epiphanies among her serious favorites and values the philosophical canon and engagement with Plato, Socrates, Heracleitus, Parmenides, Aquinas, and Augustine.
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