Listen "In Search of Dostoyevsky's Russia with Portuguese-born, American Philosopher, Joia Lewis [Episode 5]"
Episode Synopsis
Joia Lewis was born in Portugal to American missionary parents during the Salazar dictatorship. Ten years later, her family moved back to the US. After studying violin at Boston Conservatory, she continued college in Massachusetts, and at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, Russia, graduating with degrees in Russian Language and Literature, and Soviet and East European studies. Looking for a way to continue study in both the humanities and the sciences, led to a Ph.D. In the Philosophy of Science from Indiana University. Following three decades of teaching scientific reasoning, philosophy of mind, logic and medical ethics in California and Minnesota, with a hiatus has software publications manager in Silicon Valley, she returned in 2018 to her birthplace, Portugal.
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