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 challenges the reductive materialism that governs most contemporary accounts of mind, arguing that memory is not stored in the brain but unfolds in time.
She received her DPhil in 2025 and her MPhil with distinction in 2021, both from the University of Oxford, and holds a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University. Her work bridges philosophical psychology, metaphysics, and the history of philosophical thought, while engaging with the latest research in neuroscience and AI. 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.
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