Jack Beaulieu, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and now a Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) in Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, works on the history of Sanskrit philosophy, focusing on philosophers belonging to the Nyāya and Prābhākara traditions. Dr. Beaulieu works broadly in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, with his research to date focusing primarily on absence.
Amy Schmitter is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta with research interests include the history of early modern philosophy, the philosophy of art, the history of metaphysics and philosophy of mind, the history of theories of emotions, and feminist approaches to the history of philosophy
Tarek Dika is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at U of T who specializes in phenomenology, especially Heidegger and contemporary French phenomenology. He also has research interests in early modern philosophy and science, especially Descartes.
Qiu Lin is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, with research areas in early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and Chinese Islamic philosophy.
Melissa Fusco is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the director of graduate admissions there. She works in philosophy of language—especially formal semantics—decision theory, and philosophical logic. She also has interests in metaethics and metaphysics. Current projects include natural language theories of modality and the semantics of disjunctive questions.
Annina Loets is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language, and currently, she is working on a larger research project on agentive possibilities such as abilities, opportunities, and options.
Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.
Barry Maguire, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, is pursuing as his current central research project the development of an ethical theory based on an ideal of caring solidarity.
Casey O’Callaghan, a professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, focuses his research on philosophical questions about perception, in particular, on auditory perception and the nature of its objects, as well as on multisensory perception and consciousness.
Paul Rateau, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, works in the history of philosophy, with a focus on the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
The second Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on public bioethics, featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Engelhart as keynote speaker.
Stephen Peprah, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, works in ancient and early modern philosophy. One of his two main current research projects focuses on the philosophical works of Anton Wilhelm Amo, an eighteenth-century Ghanaian-German slave-turned-academic.
