Jenny Pegg

"As to the fable that there are Antipodes," St. Augustine wrote in the fifth century, "that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth... men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible."

I am driven to seek our Antipodes - to pursue awareness of how the ideas and visions of our present are both helped and hindered by the knowledge and assumptions we inherit from our past - to discover ground credible, un-credible, and incredible. I'm drawn to topics in which humanity directly confronts fundamental questions of existence, questions asked in one form or another by men and women in the past, questions that remain with us, often in new forms, in the present. They echo through centuries, even millennia. What do we know of the universe? How do we understand matter, space, and time? What is man in relation to other life? What is the self, the mind and/or (a more recent development) the brain?

I am also interested in the interaction between natural philosophical, and later scientific, knowledge and law, politics and power.

I graduated from Harvard University in 2004 with a degree in astrophysics. Thereafter, I worked in neuroscience research for four years before commencing graduate studies in 2008.