Gideon Freudenthal is professor in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He will deliver a talk on "Salomon Maimon's philosophy: between myth and logical analysis."
Amie L. Thomasson, professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College, will deliver a talk titled "How can we come to know metaphysical modal truths?”
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?"
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 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."
Mark UNESCO World Philosophy Day with a lecture by Miranda Fricker of CUNY's Graduate Center. Professor Fricker's research includes feminist philosophy, social epistemology, and moral philosophy.
This year's Alexander Lecture welcomes Christopher Mole, Chair of the Programme in Cognitive Systems at UBC where he also teaches in the Department of Philosophy. Professor Mole will deliver a talk on “Dynamic Semantics, Embodied Syntax, and the Evidence of Sign-Language Aphasia”
Professor Sedley's research is in 1st century BC philosophy and Plato's Phaedo. His publications include Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, 2007 (Berkeley) and The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, 2004 (Oxford).
New work on the concept of hylomorphism in Aristotle, featuring talks by Mary Louise Gill, David Charles, and others.
Julia Staffel specializes in formal epistemology and traditional epistemology, and her work also relates to issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. In this talk she will argue that there is a large class of rationality judgments we routinely endorse that fall neither into the category of doxastic nor the category of propositional rationality.
Professor Naas teaches courses in philosophy and comparative literature and conducts research in the areas of ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary French philosophy. He has edited, translated, and written on a number of the works of Jacques Derrida.
Daniel Breazeale has been at the University of Kentucky since 1971. He specializes in German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, with a research focus on post-Kantian idealism and the philosophy of J. G. Fichte. Other interests include existentialism, skepticism, and social and political philosophy.
Professor Robert Stern's main interests in the history of philosophy are 19th-century post-Kantian German philosophy, especially Hegel. In contemporary philosophy, he focuses on epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. His current work centres around the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup, as well as around Martin Luther viewed from a philosophical perspective.
Philip Pettit, who teaches philosophy at Princeton and ANU will be giving a public lecture at the Faculty of Law. During the last 20 years, some of the world’s most distinguished scholars have been invited to the law school to deliver a public lecture in memory of the late former ... Read More
This year's UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker, Chike Jeffers, is an associate professor of Philosophy, cross-appointed with Canadian Studies and International Development Studies at Dalhousie University. His research focuses on Africana philosophy, the philosophy of race, social and political philosophy, and ethics. Talk Title What Counts as a Collective ... Read More
Julia Staffel specializes in formal epistemology and traditional epistemology, and her work also relates to issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. In this talk she will argue that there is a large class of rationality judgments we routinely endorse that fall neither into the category of doxastic nor the category of propositional rationality.
This year's Roseman Lecture will be delivered by Cécile Fabre, a professor of political philosophy and senior research fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford.
Francey Russell, an assistant professor of philosophy at Columbia University, works on issues in moral psychology and ethics broadly construed.
This year's UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker, Vanessa Wills, is Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Her areas of interest include moral and political philosophy (particularly Karl Marx) and philosophy of race. Her recent work includes "Revolutionary Admiration" (The Moral Psychology of Admiration, 2019) and "'Man is the Highest ... Read More
This year's Edith Bruce Memorial Lecture on Immortality will be delivered by David Wallace, Mellon Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh whose research focuses on the Everett interpretation of quantum theory (often called the "Many-Worlds interpretation").
This year's Roseman Lecture will be delivered by Cécile Fabre, a professor of political philosophy and senior research fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford.
Agnes Callard is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and that department's director of undergraduate studies. Dr. Callard's primary areas of specialization lie in ancient philosophy and ethics., and she is also noted for her work in and on public philosophy.
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.
Taras Lyutyy, a visiting professor from Ukraine, specializes in the philosophy of Nietzsche, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of culture.
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.
Sharon Street, a professor of Philosophy at NYU, specializes in metaethics. She has authored a series of articles on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her work concerns the nature of both practical and epistemic reasons, and it draws especially on an evolutionary biological perspective.
This year's Roseman Lecture will be delivered by Niko Kolodny, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
