2025 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference

Nancy Cartwright, FBA FAcSS, is a professor of Philosophy at Durham University and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In the first half of her career at Stanford University she specialized in the philosophy of the natural sciences, especially physics; in the second half, at the London School of Economics and now Durham and UCSD, she has focused on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, with special attention to economics. Her current research focuses on objectivity and evidence, especially for evidence-based policy.

J. David Velleman is Miller Research Professor in Philosophy and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Bioethics at NYU. He has worked in the philosophy of action, moral psychology, the foundations of ethics, the history of ethics, and bioethics. He has also written about narrative, psychoanalysis, and the philosophy of perception, and he has co-authored a book of empirical moral psychology on the career of the Nazi judge Konrad Morgen. Dr. Velleman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, is the co-founder and former co-editor of Philosophers’ Imprint, the first open-access journal in philosophy, and a founding co-editor of The Raven, an online philosophy magazine.

Please contact Rachel Cripps, Michael Lanc, or Eirini Martsoukaki with any questions about the conference.