Tarek Dika is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at U of T who specializes in phenomenology, especially Heidegger and contemporary French phenomenology. He also has research interests in early modern philosophy and science, especially Descartes.
Melissa Fusco is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the director of graduate admissions there. She works in philosophy of language---especially formal semantics---decision theory, and philosophical logic. She also has interests in metaethics and metaphysics. Current projects include natural language theories of modality and the semantics of disjunctive questions.
William Ross forms part of the Groupement de Recherche en Théorie Critique at the University of Reims. He is the president of the Association for Adorno Studies and works across topics in epistemology and critical theory.
Miguel Ohnesorge is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. Dr. Ohnesorge is a philosopher of science and a historian of science and philosophy.
An afternoon celebrating the research and teaching of recently retired Professor Emeritus Lloyd P. Gerson.
Paul Boghossian is the Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Dr. Boghossian also serves as the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and the director of NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
Alberto Toscano, professor emeritus of Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently teaching at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, divides his current research into three main strands: a theoretical and historical inquiry into the politics of authoritarianism and their links to the racial, geopolitical and gendered crises of capital; artistic efforts to represent or ‘map’ racial capitalism, and in the revitalization of a critical theory of political action informed by anti-colonial and anti-racist thought; the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism, and critical theory.
Marcus Schmücker is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In addition to interdisciplinary work in the fields of theology and philosophy, his research interests focus on the traditions of Advaita Vedānta and Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta.
Barry Maguire, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, is pursuing as his current central research project the development of an ethical theory based on an ideal of caring solidarity.
Johannes Haag is a professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His systematic interests in theoretical philosophy concern the philosophy of language, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and in particular the theory of intentionality. Historically, he works mainly on issues in early modern philosophy, the philosophy of Enlightenment, the philosophy of Kant and German Idealism. In addition to Kant and Descartes, he is especially interested in Spinoza, Berkeley, and Fichte.
Qiu Lin is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, with research areas in early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and Chinese Islamic philosophy.
Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.
