Tim Schroeder grew up on the Canadian prairies, an environment that afforded him plenty of time for philosophical speculation. After earning a PhD in Philosophy at Stanford University in 1998 he held faculty positions at the University of Manitoba and Ohio State University before coming to Rice University as a Professor in 2015. His research spans such topics as desire, pleasure, motivation, blameworthiness, free will, mental disorder, deliberation, concepts, and consciousness, and he is the author of two books: Three Faces of Desire (OUP 2004) and, with co-author Nomy Arpaly, In Praise of Desire (OUP 2014).