Diane Jeske is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. Her published work in ethics addresses topics such as the grounds of special obligations to intimates, the nature of friendship, utilitarianism versus deontology, political obligation, and the nature of reasons.
Rowan Mellor is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Victor Tadros, a professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick, has research interests that span across much of moral, legal, and political philosophy. His current work concentrates on consent to sex and on responsibility.
Jonas Vandieken, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, works primarily in ethics, meta-ethics, and political philosophy.
Jessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond, where she is also an associate professor of Leadership Studies and of Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. Her research addresses the nature and limits of people’s enforceable rights.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, in his theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, German transcendental philosophy, materialist thought, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.
Christopher M. Howard, an assistant professor of Philosophy at McGill University, mainly works at the intersection of normative ethics and metaethics. He also enjoys writing and talking about issues in political philosophy, moral psychology, and the history of ethics, as well as issues surrounding the ethics of technology.
Nicholas Vrousalis, an associate professor of Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, works on distributive ethics, democratic theory, and the history of political philosophy, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, and Marx.
Valerie Tiberius, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, focuses her research and teaching on ethics and moral psychology, with a special interest in applying Humean principles to modern philosophical questions. Much of her work is centered at the junction of practical philosophy and practical psychology, examining how both disciplines can meaningfully improve lives.
Robin Zheng, a lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has research interests ranging across ethics, moral psychology, feminist, social, and political philosophy. She focuses especially on issues of moral responsibility, structural injustice, and social change, with emphasis on issues of gender, race, and social inequality.
Nate Oppel, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, will give a talk on our intentional capacity to revise beliefs, while Stacy Chen, also a U of T graduate student in Philosophy, will address in her lecture reasonableness in medical decision-making.
Mark Schroeder (Southern California) works on areas of philosophy in some way connected to metaethics. He is interested in the ways in which rationality, reasons, value, and other "evaluative’" or "normative" categories are related to the mundane, physical world in which we live, in which things are round, red, or left of one another. For example, are there really facts about what is rational or not, to go along with the facts about what is round or not?
Daniel Muñoz is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, where he also forms part of the core faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. His work mostly counts as “normative ethics,” which means it’s too concrete to be “meta,” but not concrete enough to be useful. He is writing a book called "What We Owe to Ourselves."
