visiting lecturers

UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Paul Boghossian, NYU)

Paul Boghossian is the Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK.  Dr. Boghossian also serves as the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and the director of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. 

UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)

Linda Martín Alcoff, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, CUNY, has worked for many years on the intersections of knowledge, identity, and power. She specializes in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, decolonial theory and continental philosophy, especially the work of Michel Foucault.

UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street, NYU)

Sharon Street, a professor of Philosophy at NYU, specializes in metaethics. She has authored a series of articles on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her work concerns the nature of both practical and epistemic reasons, and it draws especially on an evolutionary biological perspective.

History of Philosophy Group Talk (Elena Gordon, McGill)

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Elena Gordon is currently an Extending New Narratives Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University. She mainly works on the philosophy of David Hume, but her research for the Extending New Narratives project examines Catharine Macaulay’s (1731-1791) philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the role of non-human animals in human moral and epistemic development.