Patricia Marechal obtained her PhD from Harvard University in 2018. She specializes in Classical Greek philosophy, with a focus on ancient theories of the soul. Her research interests include ethics, moral psychology, and epistemology in the works of Plato and Aristotle. In her work, she explores the connection between affective states and intellectual capabilities, types of human motivation, and the extent to which ancient moral psychological models are shaped by the recognition that we are social beings by nature. She has also written about philosophical conceptions of non-human animals in Antiquity, the history of vegetarianism, and Greco-Roman medicine, particularly Galen’s views on philosophy of mind and teleology.