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.
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.
Jonas Vandieken, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, works primarily in ethics, meta-ethics, and political philosophy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rowan Mellor is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
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.
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.
Meena Krishnamurthy is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Queens University whose work focuses on questions of race and caste. Currently, her particular focus lies on the role played by political emotion in Martin Luther King Jr.’s battle to end racial injustice. She is also interested in applying the thinking of Indian political philosophers about caste to the study of race and racism in the United States.
Tristram McPherson is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, while David Plunkett is an associate professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. They will be speaking on the foundations of epistemic normativity.
