Yolanda Kirkham (U of T) will speak as part of the PCU’s 2021 Bioethics Lecture Series on the hidden ethical implications of COVID-19.
Peter Jaworksi (Georgetown) will speak as part of the PCU’s 2021 Bioethics Lecture Series on the hidden ethical implications of COVID-19.
The authors of War by Agreement, Yitzhak Benbaji and Daniel Statman, meet their critics in Claire Finkelstein, Arthur Ripstein, and Thomas Hurka.
Caspar Hare, a professor of Philosophy at MIT, has main professional interests in ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. His recent work has sought to bring ideas about practical rationality and metaphysics to bear on issues in normative ethics and 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.
Holly M. Smith, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Rutgers University, works on questions in normative ethics, moral responsibility, and structural questions transcending normative theories.
Francey Russell, an assistant professor of philosophy at Columbia University, works on issues in moral psychology and ethics broadly construed.
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.
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.
Robert Mason is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in ethics and early modern philosophy.
Jeff Noonan has maintained broad and interdisciplinary research interests for almost 20 years, especially in social and political philosophy.
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.
