Prof. Atherton's research interests include English philosophers of the early modern period, the work of women philosophers in the history of philosophy, and historical issues in the philosophy of psychology.
Rebecca Stangl is associate professor at the University of Virginia. Prof. Stangl's research is in ethics and the history of philosophy. She will talk on the topic of "Might Self-Cultivation be a Virtue?"
Prof. Hickson's recent research has focused on the history of 17-century philosophy, especially Descartes, Bayle, skepticism, and the problem of evil. Increasingly, his research includes both historical and contemporary issues related to conscience and toleration.
Professor Way's areas of specialization are in ethics and epistemology, broadly construed. He is particularly interested in issues to do with reasons, rationality, value, and normativity, across practical and epistemic domains. He will talk on "The Distinctiveness of Fittingness" (co-authored with Conor McHugh).
Hartry Field's current research focuses on objectivity and indeterminacy, a priori knowledge, causation, and the semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes. He will talk on "Epistemology from a "Naturalistic" (but not Reliabilist) Perspective."
Professor Winkler is a leading scholar of early modern philosophy best known for his work on Berkeley and Hume. He will deliver a talk titled "Locke on the Scope of Sensitive Knowledge".
A university lecturer in philosophy of science at Cambridge University, Jacob Stegenga's research focuses on methodological problems of medical research, conceptual questions in evolutionary biology, and fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality.
Professor Greenberg's research is oriented around language, mind, and depiction. His publications include “Beyond Resemblance”, in Philosophical Review (2013), and “Varieties of Iconicity”, in a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2015).
Professor Pautz's current research project is a “consciousness-first” program in the philosophy of mind. His book, Perception: How Mind Connects to World is forthcoming from Routledge Press.
The group welcomes Gregor Moder, assistant professor on the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, who will deliver a talk titled "Death and Finality: Hegel versus Spinoza."
Professor Roberts' areas of specialization are formal semantics and pragmatics. She has been working on long-term projects that pertain to projective meaning and natural language metaphysics. She will deliver a talk titled "The Character of Epistemic Modals in Natural Language: Evidential Indexicals."
Professor Strevens' research is in philosophy of science (including scientific explanation, complex systems, probability, the social structure of science) and the philosophical applications of cognitive science (especially the psychology of concepts).
