Ursula Renz specializes in the history of philosophy, with a focus on the period between early modern philosophy and Kant, and on themes in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, moral psychology
The work of Dwight K. Lewis Jr. of the University of Central Florida interrogates philosophy through a historical lens, focusing on the early modern period, Africana philosophy, the philosophical canon, and the discipline of philosophy.
The two-day 2022 Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy will include talks by an array of international scholars.
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.
Jonathan Cottrell, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, focuses his research on early modern philosophy, especially Hume’s work.
Allauren Forbes's (McMaster) research lies at the intersection of feminist philosophy and early modern philosophy.
Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, a current postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, is working on a project dedicated to Hume’s epistemology and methodological approaches under the supervision of Donald C. Ainslie.
Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.
Elena Gordon is currently an Extending New Narratives Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University. She mainly works on the philosophy of David Hume, but her research for the Extending New Narratives project examines Catharine Macaulay's (1731-1791) philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the role of non-human animals in human moral and epistemic development.
Harmen Grootenhuis, a visiting graduate student from the University of Groningen, will be speaking on Spinoza.
Join us for a two-day conference on acosmism and pantheism in Spinoza and German idealism, Kant, and Post-Kantian philosophy. Hosted by Michael Rosenthal and Nick Stang. Please note: all events begin at listed times, not 10 or 15 minutes after Program Monday, May 1 9:30–11:00 Karolina Hübner (Cornell), “How to Be a ... Read More
Brian Bitar, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, concentrates his research on moral and political philosophy, with consideration of their metaphysical basis. He specializes in the early modern period.
David James Barnett, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. He is interested in the epistemic significance of self-consciousness and the boundaries of the self.
