Past Events

Alex Guerrero is the Henry Rutgers Term Chair and an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He also serves as the director of the Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy. He has worked on a variety of topics in moral, legal, and political philosophy, as well as in epistemology, especially social epistemology. He has further interests in African philosophy, Latin American philosophy, and Native American philosophy.

This three-hour symposium on slavery in early modern philosophy will feature Hasana Sharpe (McGill), Aaron Garrett (Boston), and Julia Jorati (Massachusetts).

Francey Russell, an assistant professor of philosophy at Columbia University, works on issues in moral psychology and ethics broadly construed.

Eric Pacuit, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, has primary research interests are in logic (especially modal logic), game theory, social choice theory, and formal and social epistemology.

Tristram McPherson is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, while David Plunkett is an associate professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. They will be speaking on the foundations of epistemic normativity.

Winnie Sung, an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, has focused on the Confucian thinker Xunzi in her recent research, especially on his concept of xin (the heart/mind).

Gillian Russell, a professor of philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, works in the philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology.