Pauline Kleingeld is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her academic interests lie in Kant and Kantian philosophy, as well as in ethics and political philosophy.
Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), winner of the 2012 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, works mainly on political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. He is considered one of the world's most eminent authorities on the subject of toleration. This year's Simon Lectures occur under the general title "The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence."
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.
Hagop Sarkissian, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY, as well as a professor at CUNY's Graduate Center, focuses his research on moral psychology, drawing on other relevant disciplines (evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, Chinese philosophy) to inform his work.
This year's Roseman Lecture will be delivered by Niko Kolodny, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Curie Virág, a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, works in early and medieval Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, specializing in the history of ethics, moral psychology, and emotions.
Ralph Wedgwood, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, works in ethics and epistemology, more specifically, in metaethics, practical reason, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics.
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.
Neil Sinhababu, an associate professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, works in ethics, Nietzsche, political philosophy, metaphysics, as well as philosophy of mind and action.
Join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s "Ethics of Maimonides" organized by Michael Rosenthal and Ynon Wygoda.
The department invites all undergraduates to come to an orientation session in which students will be introduced to the Department of Philosophy and some of its people.
