Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Matthew Scarfone, Toronto)
OnlineMatthew Scarfone is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He works on metaethics, in particular on moral epistemology.
Matthew Scarfone is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He works on metaethics, in particular on moral epistemology.
Andrea Novakovic is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, especially Hegel, with further interests in critical theory and feminist philosophy.
James Kreines is an expert on the philosophy of Hegel and Kant. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College in California.
Allison Aitken, currently a Bersoff Faculty Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at New York University, works on non-standard theories of relations and dependence structures in the history of metaphysics, both South Asian and Early Modern European.
Anke Graneß, of the University of Vienna, will introduce some research areas and first results of investigations into a global, non-European-focused, history and present of philosophy.
Ron Aboodi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He works on ethics, moral psychology, the philosophy of action, and decision theory.
Elise Coquereau-Saouma, a fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializes in contemporary Indian philosophy, as well as modern and contemporary Continental (French-German) philosophy.
Dai Heide is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University specializing in Kant, early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics.
The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as a speaker Max K. Hayward, a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield who is currently a Fellow-in-Residence at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. His areas of interest include ... Read More
Maria R. Heim (Amherst College) has an interest in the intellectual, philosophical, religious, and literary history of ancient India, with a particular emphasis on Buddhism.
Barry Smith, Distinguished Julian Park Professor of Philosophy and professor of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Neurology in the University at Buffalo, contributes to both theoretical and applied research in ontology.
This year's Symposium on Love will feature talks from Dr. Kimberley Baltzer-Jaray (Western) and Alexandra Gustafson (Toronto).
Join Aaron Segal (Hebrew University), Daniel Nolan (Notre Dame), Catharine Diehl (Lucerne), Paul Franks (Yale), and Nick Stang (Toronto) for a series of workshops on systematic metaphysics.
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.
Mary Leng (University of York) will speak about questions in philosophy of mathematics, with a particular focus on mathematical fictionalism.
Caspar Jacobs, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, will speak on Leibniz Equivalence and the Invariance Principle.
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.
Emily Adlam is a postdoctoral associate at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University who works on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related issues in the philosophy of physics. Currently, her particular interest is in approaches to physics that go beyond the time evolution paradigm,
Fiona Leigh, an associate professor of Philosophy at University College London, currently focuses her research on Plato's metaphysics, in particular his later period dialogue, the "Sophist."
Join this workshop on the Vienna Circle and pragmatism focused around the book manuscript of one of the department's postdoctoral fellows, Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau.
Denis Kambouchner, professor emeritus at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, has focused his research on the work of René Descartes. Since 2019, he has also served as president of the Société Française de Philosophie.
Jonas Vandieken, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, works primarily in ethics, meta-ethics, and political philosophy.
Bettina Bergo is a professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal whose main research concerns the connections among Husserlian phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and continental thought on sensibility.
Claude Romano, an associate professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and a professorial fellow at Australian Catholic University, works in contemporary philosophy, especially philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology.
Angela Potochnik is a professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for the Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Potochnik's research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in population biology.
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.
Espen Hammer, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University, is a Norwegian philosopher whose main focus is on the post-Kantian European tradition of philosophy. Most of his work deals with questions of ethics, politics and subjectivity.
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.
In this lecture and workshop hosted by the Dramaturgies of Resistance Working Group, Emmanuel Renault (Université Paris Nanterre) will address the return of labour within critical theory and the experience of exploitation in theories of domination.
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.
Huw Price, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, and Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor at the University of Cambridge., will be speaking about quantum entanglement.
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.
Francesca Zaffora Blando (Carnegie Mellon) devotes most of her work to showing that the theory of algorithmic randomness can be fruitfully applied to shed light on the foundations of inductive learning.
Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie), Canada Research Chair in Africana Studies, is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, cross-appointed with Canadian Studies and International Development Studies. He specializes in Africana philosophy and philosophy of race, with general interest in social and political philosophy and ethics.
David Suarez is a part-time assistant professor of Philosophy at U of T. His work aims to understand and rehabilitate post-Kantian philosophy.
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.
Kate Withy, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, specializes in the work of Martin Heidegger, but she also has interests in 20th-century European philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. Her research centres on Heidegger’s conception of the human being as open to meaning and subject to breakdowns of meaning.
Chris Smeenk, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, and the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, has research interests in the history and philosophy of physics, general issues in the philosophy of science, and seventeenth-century natural philosophy.
G. Anthony Bruno is an assistant professor at Royal Holloway University of London whose research focuses on metaphysics and epistemology in early modern, Kantian, and post-Kantian philosophy.
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.
Branden Fitelson, a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, shows how to apply the insights of David Lewis to repair Lewis's own triviality argument against the Adams's thesis, leading to a more reasonable rendition of the equation.
Sara Aronowitz, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, studies learning and memory in humans, machines, and idealized thinkers. In this talk she will consider the question of ideal rationality.
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."
Jeta Mulaj, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, specializes in feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, critical theory, Marxism, and decolonial thought.
Igor Shoikhedbrod, an assistant professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, works on political theory, legal theory, ethics, law, and political economy.
Sophie-Jan Arrien is a professor of Philosophy at the Université Laval. Her research focuses on phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, German, and French philosophy, with a particular interest in the work of Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, and Paul Ricoeur.
Bara Kolenc, a research associate at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, is also affiliated with the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis and currently serves as the president of the International Hegelian Association Aufhebung.
Gregor Moderis a senior research associate at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He co-founded Aufhebung—International Hegelian Association.
Joseph K. Schear is a regular faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford interested in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially phenomenology, philosophy of mind (esp. the theory of intentionality), and some issues in metaphysics.