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."
Jessica Isserow, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, pursues main research interests in metaethics, normative ethics, and moral psychology.
Zoë A. Johnson King, an assistant professor at Harvard, works primarily in ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. She primarily concerns herself with moral agency and moral responsibility, with a particular focus on praiseworthiness.
Gina Schouten, a professor at Harvard, primarily studies issues of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.
Rahul Kumar, a professor and department head at Queen's University, primarily studies non-consequentialist ethical theory, with particular focus on the strengths and pitfalls of Scanlon’s contractualism.
Gustaf Arrhenius is the director of the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm and a professor of practical philosophy. His research interests focus primarily on moral and political philosophy, with a special interest in issues at the intersection between moral and political philosophy and the medical and social sciences.
Andrew Sepielli is professor and associate chair at the UTM Department of Philosophy. He has published on ethics, metaethics, pragmatism, and the philosophy of law.
Hallie Liberto is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Dr. Liberto is a moral philosopher who studies normative power, writing about the power we have to change the moral, legal, and social world through speech acts and other expressions of our will.
