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.
Declan Smithies, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, works primarily on issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Anik Waldow, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, works mainly in early modern philosophy and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, theories of personal identity, the role of affect in the formation of the self, skepticism, and associationist theories of thought and language.
Joshua Schechter, a professor in and current chair of the Department of Philosophy at Brown University, pursues research in epistemology, metaethics, the philosophy of logic, and in technical issues in logic itself.
Thierry Côté, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy and aesthetics, with additional interests in the philosophy of music, the philosophy of literature, and contemporary French philosophy.
Jocelyn Benoist, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is the author of, most recently, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. He works in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.
C. Thi Nguyen, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, writes about trust, art, games, and communities, interested in the ways our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value.
Sarah Tropper, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics.
Join us for the 2025 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on Aristotle's "Parva Naturalia."
Stephen Peprah, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, works in ancient and early modern philosophy. One of his two main current research projects focuses on the philosophical works of Anton Wilhelm Amo, an eighteenth-century Ghanaian-German slave-turned-academic.
The second Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on public bioethics, featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Engelhart as keynote speaker.
Paul Rateau, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, works in the history of philosophy, with a focus on the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
