Lawrence Pasternack, a professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, focuses his work on Kant, with publications across his ethical theory, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
Pauline Kleingeld is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her academic interests lie in Kant and Kantian philosophy, as well as in ethics and political philosophy.
Sean M. Smith, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa works at the intersection of Indian Buddhist philosophy (with a particular emphasis on the Pāli tradition) and contemporary philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and moral psychology.
Sajjad Rizvi (Exeter) is an intellectual historian interested in the course of philosophy in the Islamic world both past and present. He also takes an increasing interest in how that study and category of philosophy coincides with the emergent category of global philosophy.
Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, is renowned for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, whose tools in his more recent work he brings to bear on questions of political philosophy.
Reza Hadisi (Toronto) pursues questions in ethics, epistemology, and action theory through the study of the history of philosophy. He is particularly interested in the Medieval Arabic and Persian traditions and Kant.
Birgit Kellner is a Buddhologist and Tibetologist who serves as the director of the Institute for Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia in Vienna, part of the Austrian Academy of Science.
Joseph Len “Joey” Miller is an assistant professor of Philosophy at West Chester University who specializes in Native American philosophy and ethics. As an enrolled member of Muscogee Nation, his research focuses on understanding the ethical frameworks of his ancestors and how these frameworks have been adapted to address settler colonialism.
Pirachula Chulanon (Toronto Metropolitan) specializes in Kant’s theories of knowledge and mind. His work concerns the origins and limits of our understanding of our own humanity and rationality. He pairs this with research and teaching interests in ethics and aesthetics, especially theories of art in the German-speaking tradition after Kant.
Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach currently holds the chair of “Diversifying Philosophies” at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on world philosophies
Monima Chadha (Monash) researches the cross-cultural philosophy of mind, specifically the classical Indian and contemporary Western philosophy of mind.
Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Vassar College, will be speaking about the epistemic views of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
