The Daily e-mailed faculty a short questionnaire that strayed beyond their work at Stanford. Here is a glimpse into the personalities behind your professors.

Hometown: Shippensburg, Pa.

Undergrad: Harvard, government major

Grad school: master’s degree in philosophy at Cambridge, doctorate in philosophy at UC-Berkeley

Fan of: the New York Jets

Hobbies: chess

#1 on your playlist: “Human Being,” New York Dolls

Favorite book: Plato’s “Republic”

Favorite movie: “Casablanca”

If you could only eat one food group for the rest of your life, would it be grains, meat, vegetables or fruit? veggies

If you hadn’t gone into academia, you’d be: a psychiatrist

Department: Philosophy

Classes taught: fall IHUM Word and Image, PHIL 107/207 Plato’s Metaphysics and Epistemology, PHIL 108/208 Aristotle’s Psychology, PHIL 317 Aristotle’s Politics

Primary research interest/project: I’m working on a long project on the relations among theoretical and practical reason in Plato and Aristotle. I analyze their views on what kind of knowledge is needed in order to act and live well.