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 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).
Professor Andersen's research is in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology, and particularly causation (application of causal methodology to case studies in philosophy of science, causal explanation, problems related to mental causation, and the metaphysics of causation).
Chunghyoung Lee from Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech) works in the philosophy of science (especially
physics and mathematics), metaphysics, and philosophical logic. In particular, he focuses his research on closed spacetime and the conventionality of simultaneity. He is also interested in general issues of history and social studies of science.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TALK WITH KEVIN ZOLLMAN HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO THE COMING ACADEMIC YEAR. We will update our events page with the exact date as son as possible.
Konstantin (Kasey) Genin is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Kasey's research is in the areas of philosophy of science, formal epistemology, machine learning, and philosophy of statistics. His work focuses on the ways in which reliable inferences are made from statistical data, and addresses feasibility contextualism, epistemic ... Read More
Kevin Zollman is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to his primary appointment at Carnegie Mellon, Professor Zollman is an associate fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, an Adjunct Member of the Department of History and Philosophy of ... Read More
Peter Fritz is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo. Professor Fritz works mainly on logic and its philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. He also has interests in the philosophy of mathematics and epistemology. Much of his work is on questions concerning modality and existence, and ... Read More
Eric Pacuit, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, has primary research interests are in logic (especially modal logic), game theory, social choice theory, and formal and social epistemology.
Fermin Fulda, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, works on the nature of biological and cognitive systems.
Nina Emery, an assistant professor of philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, focuses her research on the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophy of physics, especially on how our best scientific theories should inform our understanding of time, probability, and the laws of nature.
Jo Wolff, a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, works primarily on questions in the philosophy of science and metaphysics, with a current research focus on the metaphysics of quantities.
Ted Sider, Distinguished Professor and Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, specializes in metaphysics (time, identity, mereology, modality, supervenience, fundamentality).
Jeremy Goodman's (USC) research focuses on metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and philosophical logic.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
Justin Bledin is an associate professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His core research develops an informational view of logic and deductive inquiry.
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.
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.
