Author: Candice Shelby

Candice Shelby, PhD, is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver. Shelby received a BA in philosophy from the Unversity of Houston and her MA and PhD from Rice University. She has served as both department chair and executive director for the Center for Ethics and Community during her tenure at the University of Colorado, Denver. Dr. Shelby enjoys interdisciplinary affiliations in the sciences, social justice, and women and gender studies. Her professional specialties include epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology. Her most recent work has been in the philosophy of addiction. In 2016, she published the book Addiction: A Philosophical Perspective.