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.
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.
Robin Dembroff is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University, working primarily in feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and epistemology. In their research, they place a particular emphasis on relationships between social categories, concepts, and language.
Sacha Golob is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London whose current research focuses on contemporary concepts of degeneration, transformation, and virtue.
This three-hour symposium on slavery in early modern philosophy will feature Hasana Sharpe (McGill), Aaron Garrett (Boston), and Julia Jorati (Massachusetts).
Nilanjan Das is a permanent lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University College London. His interests lie in epistemology. classical Indian philosophy in Sanskrit, and moral philosophy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alex Guerrero is the Henry Rutgers Term Chair and an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He also serves as the director of the Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy. He has worked on a variety of topics in moral, legal, and political philosophy, as well as in epistemology, especially social epistemology. He has further interests in African philosophy, Latin American philosophy, and Native American philosophy.
Join us for a half-day workshop on Hegel and (the end of) art with speakers Paul Kottman, Frank Ruda, Ian Balfour, and Eva Ruda.
