Victoria Trumbull

Dr. Victoria Trumbull is a philosopher, researcher, and writer whose work concerns the nature of the human mind and the relationship between time, memory, and the soul. She received her DPhil in 2025 and her MPhil with distinction in 2021, both from the University of Oxford, where her doctoral thesis was examined by Rowan Williams, and holds a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University.

Her work bridges philosophical psychology, metaphysics, and the history of philosophical thought, and it presses against the reductive materialism that governs most contemporary accounts of mind. She argues that memory is not stored in the brain but unfolds in time, a claim that reopens questions of interiority, selfhood, and soul which cognitive science has largely set aside. Her first book, On the Memory of the Soul: Augustine and Bergson's Metaphysics, is published by Bloomsbury Philosophy.

She writes and speaks for general as well as scholarly audiences on memory, consciousness, and the conceptual and existential stakes of artificial intelligence. Her presence at the conference brings a rigorous philosophical case that the inner life is not a leftover to be explained away, but something the coming century will have to reckon with directly.