Laura Maguire is Philosophy Talk's Director of Research and an occassional co-host. She hails from Dublin, Ireland, but has called the Bay Area home for decades. After graduating with distinction at Trinity College Dublin, she earned her PhD in Philosophy at Stanford University. She has taught in Stanford's Philosophy Department, Introduction to the Humanities program, and Structured Liberal Education program. She has given talks at the LASERs (UC Berkeley and USF), the Symbolic Systems Forum (Stanford), and has conducted interviews at Litquake and the Science and Nonduality Conference, amongst others.