Join us for the the 24th Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Nancy Cartwright (Durham) and David Velleman (Johns Hopkins).
Rahul Kumar, a professor and department head at Queen’s University, primarily studies non-consequentialist ethical theory, with particular focus on the strengths and pitfalls of Scanlon’s contractualism.
Gina Schouten, a professor at Harvard, primarily studies issues of social and political philosophy and ethics. Her most sustained research projects concern political liberalism and political legitimacy, educational justice, and the gendered division of labor.
Declan Smithies, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, works primarily on issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Joshua Schechter, a professor in and current chair of the Department of Philosophy at Brown University, pursues research in epistemology, metaethics, the philosophy of logic, and in technical issues in logic itself.
Zoë A. Johnson King, an assistant professor at Harvard, works primarily in ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. She primarily concerns herself with moral agency and moral responsibility, with a particular focus on praiseworthiness.
Jessica Isserow, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, pursues main research interests in metaethics, normative ethics, and moral psychology.
Join us for the the 23rd Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Ted Sider (Rutgers) and Samuel Scheffler (NYU).
Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.
Trenton Merricks is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He specializes in metaphysics.
Nate Oppel, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, will give a talk on our intentional capacity to revise beliefs, while Stacy Chen, also a U of T graduate student in Philosophy, will address in her lecture reasonableness in medical decision-making.
Daniel Muñoz is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, where he also forms part of the core faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. His work mostly counts as “normative ethics,” which means it’s too concrete to be “meta,” but not concrete enough to be useful. He is writing a book called “What We Owe to Ourselves.”
