Jonathan Weinberg is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. Following Jerry Fodor’s aphorism that you can make philosophy out of anything, or even less, he has published across an eclectic set of research topics. These have ranged from the epistemology of the a priori; to explanation in cognitive science; to the philosophical psychology of our engagements with works of fiction; to ‘middlebrow' aesthetics; and to philosophical methodology and experimental philosophy, including his recent book with Joshua Alexander, Standing Up For Philosophy: Armchairs, Experiments, and the Case for Methodological Reform (OUP). A through-line across his work is putting empirical psychology and philosophical inquiry into fruitfully frictional and mutually informative contact. His current project explores avenues for putting the transcendentalist philosophy of authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson into a productive dialogue with the naturalist strain in contemporary analytic philosophy.