2025 Summer Leaders and Guests

  • Peter Bach-y-Rita, Dean of Academics

    Peter is a Co-Founder of the Reason & Rationality program. He holds his BA in Philosophy from Princeton University and Ph.D. in Philosophy from MIT. Peter is a practicing attorney.

  • Joseph Schmid, Program Director

    Joe earned a BA in Philosophy with highest distinction from Purdue University and is currently a Philosophy PhD student at Princeton University. He has published 16 articles on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics in leading peer-reviewed philosophy journals. He also authored the books Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs (with Dr. Daniel Linford) and The Majesty of Reason: A Short Guide to Critical Thinking in Philosophy. On the popular level, he creates lecture videos and hosts discussions with philosophers on his YouTube channel Majesty of Reason. His videos have attracted nearly 1.5 million views in total.

  • Eleanor Parks

    SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR

  • Jamie Kokot

    CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER

Our 2025 Summer Group Leaders include: 

Rebecca Lowe, Ph.D. in Philosophy from King’s College London

Noah Davis McKay, Philosophy Ph.D. candidate, Purdue University  

Oak Hu, undergraduate student in Philosophy, Oxford University

 Cadence James, undergraduate student in Philosophy, Oxford University 

Amos Wollen, undergraduate student in philosophy, Oxford University

James B. Estes, Reason & Rationality Co-Founder

Questions about the Reason & Rationality Vision for Conversation-Based Education may be directed to Dean of Academics Peter Bach-y-Rita at info@reasonandrationality.com