Editors-in-Chief
Charlotte Carnes
Charlotte Carnes graduated with First Class Honours in philosophy from the Australian National University in November 2025. Her Honours Thesis explored how the dominant Western imaginary of pregnancy, in which the relationship between a woman and foetus is equated to that between two individuals, informs an understanding of abortion as a strictly moral question. More broadly, her philosophical interests lie in feminist philosophy, bioethics, moral and political philosophy, and metaethics.
Jacob Ritz
Jacob is a PhD candidate in the School of Languages and Cultures and a casual academic in mathematics and German studies at the University of Queensland. He is also an editor for the UQ student journal Exordium. His research interests concern the history of French and German university metaphysics. His PhD thesis develops an intellectual history of Alain Badiou’s philosophy, examining how it is informed by nineteenth- and twentieth-century German thought.
Associate Editors
Quinn Crewdson
Quinn Li Crewdson graduated with First Class Honours in philosophy from The University of Sydney in 2025. His Honours thesis concerned the relevance of Descartes’ skeptical arguments to conventions in scientific explanation. Quinn’s research interests include epistemology, skepticism, philosophy of science and normative ethics.
Lily Elston-Leadbetter
Lily is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, and her work investigates how classical Husserlian phenomenology intersects with contemporary critical approaches. Through a phenomenological analysis of women’s experiences, she aims to reveal the hidden obstacles to obtaining essential reproductive healthcare. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, phenomenology, ethics, critical theory, and metaphysics.