Kathrin Koslicki was born in Munich, Germany, where she spent the first eighteen years of her life. She came to America when she was twenty, after driving her motorcyle (then a Honda XL500, single-cylinder enduro) across France, Spain and Portugal for a year, trying (and failing) to understand Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

After a year of studying philosophy and classical philology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, she completed her undergraduate work at SUNY Stony Brook. She received her PhD from MIT in 1995 and spent the next five years teaching in New Orleans, Los Angeles and Florida, before she joined the Tufts faculty in 2000, thrilled to return to Boston's gloomy six-month-long winters.

Her interests in philosophy lie mainly in metaphysics, the philosophy of language and Ancient Greek philosophy, particularly Aristotle. She is currently working on a book manuscript in metaphysics, tentatively entitled The Structure of Objects, in which she defends a structure-based theory of parts and wholes.

She continues to make the world a more dangerous place by riding her motorcycle all over the country; in keeping with her "biker image", she also plays guitar and sings.

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