Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins

Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins is a Canadian philosopher who holds a Canada Research Chair and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She is also a professor at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. Her primary research areas are epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. She is one of the principal editors of the journal Thought.

Education and career Jenkins holds BA, MPhil and PhD degrees in philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Jenkins has advocated for a more holistic view of academic life, blending creative writing, public engagement, and even tarot readings into her philosophical practice. She refers to this interdisciplinary integration as a form of "life crafting" and "love crafting," emphasizing flexibility and resistance to institutional constraints.

Jenkins became involved in a dispute with Brian Leiter, a professor at the University of Chicago and then editor of the Philosophical Gourmet Report. His emailed remarks about Jenkins led to hundreds of philosophers refusing to provide data for the report, and ultimately led to his stepping down as its editor.

Personal life As of 2017, Jenkins has both a boyfriend and a husband. That year she stated, "I've been openly nonmonogamous for five or six years. Over the last four years, I’ve been involved in several long-term simultaneous relationships, and so the term polyamory has felt more appropriate."

Selected publications Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge (OUP, 2008, ) 'The Philosophy of Flirting': http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/25/14443302/1444330225.pdf 'Concepts, Experience and Modal Knowledge': http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1520-8583.2010.00193.x/abstract 'Romeo, René, and the Reasons Why: What Explanation Is': http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2008.00236.x/abstract What Love Is: And What It Could Be. United States: Basic Books, 2017.