Leading Research in Philosophy

Research Areas & Specializations

Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, and Cognition

• Kathleen Akins – Neurophilosophy, consciousness, mental representation, colour perception
• Holly Andersen – Psychology of action/agency, temporal experience
• Zara Anwarzai  – Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, skills and expertise
• Endre Begby – Philosophy of mind/psychology, cognitive science
• Kino Zhao – Philosophy of psychology

Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Logic

• Holly Andersen – Metaphysics of causation
• Endre Begby - Social epistemology, epistemology of social prejudice
• Thomas Donaldson – Analytic/synthetic distinction, metaphysics of mathematics, logic
• Bruno Guindon – Epistemic normativity, Epistemology, Legal Epistemology 
• Dai Heide – Metaphysics, philosophy of religion
• Nicolas Fillion – Epistemology, logic, scientific computation
• Jennifer Wang – Modality, metaphysics, logic, epistemology
• Kino Zhao – Logic, computability theory, formal epistemology

Philosophy of Science and Mathematics

• Holly Andersen – History and philosophy of science, scientific methodology
• Nicolas Fillion – Philosophy of science and mathematics, scientific rationality
• Qiu Lin  – History and philosophy of science
• Kino Zhao – Philosophy of social science, philosophy of statistics, philosophy of machine learning
• Jennifer Wang – Philosophy of logic

Ethics, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

• Sam Black – Ethics, moral theory, social and political philosophy
• Stephen Bero – Moral philosophy, philosophy of law, moral psychology
• Nic Bommarito – Buddhist Ethics, moral psychology
• Bruno Guindon – Practical normativity, metaethics, normative ethics
• Dai Heide – Normative and applied ethics
• Alex King  – Aesthetics, reasons, normativity
• Chelsea Rosenthal – Ethical theory, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law
• Evan Tiffany – Moral and criminal responsibility, philosophy of law, normativity, and ethical theory
• Endre Begby – Political philosophy

History of Philosophy

• Holly Andersen – 19th-century and early 20th-century philosophy, pragmatism
• Sam Black – History of ethics, 17th-century philosophy
• Nic Bommarito – Buddhist philosophy
• Nicolas Fillion – History of logic, ancient Greek philosophy
• Dai Heide – Kant, early modern philosophy
• Qiu Lin  – Early modern philosophy, Chinese philosophy
• Jennifer Wang – Chinese philosophy

Language and Reference

• Endre Begby – Philosophy of language, linguistics
• Nicolas Fillion – Philosophy of language, logic