Joshua Trubowitz is a Social Sciences Teaching Fellow in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the College. His current research centers on Aristotle’s theory of perception. He is especially interested in the idea, which he finds in Aristotle, that we are subject to normative evaluation in our cognitive lives only insofar as cognition features spontaneous or self-caused activity. More generally, he is interested in what we might have to learn from Aristotle about normativity, the soul, and its place in nature. He holds a joint-PhD from the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and also received his AB from the University of Chicago.