Professor Brighouse's current research explores the place of the family in egalitarian liberalism and examines school reform ideas in the light of an egalitarian liberal theory of social justice for education. His recent publications include Justice (Polity, 2004) and On Education (Routledge, 2005).

Professor Card's research focuses on evil and (in)justice--conceptual issues, normative issues, and practical issues arising in the areas in which she has teaching affiliations: Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Environmental Studies, and LGBT Studies. Her recent books include Genocide's Aftermath (coedited with Armen Marsoobian; Blackwell 2007), The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (2003), and The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (Oxford 2002). She recently held a Senior Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She is currently writing a book on terrorism, torture, and genocide, which also revises the theory of The Atrocity Paradigm, and another book that will be an introduction to feminist philosophy. In April 2008 she will give the John Dewey lecture at the Central Division APA meetings in Chicago.

Professor Comesaña's research focuses on epistemology. His most recent publications include "Is Evidence Knowledge?" (with Holly Kantin, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research), "Could There Be Exactly Two Things?" (forthcoming in Synthese), "Knowledge and Subjunctive Conditionals" (forthcoming in Philosophy Compass), and "A Well-Founded Solution to the Generality Problem" (Philosophical Studies 129, 2006).

Professor Forster's research has focused on issues in general philosophy of science, particularly the role of simplicity and unification in confirmation and statistics; more recently his research has expanded into philosophy of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. Recent philosophy of physics publications include "The Miraculous Consilience of Quantum Mechanics" in Probability and Science and "The Emergence of the Macro-World: A Study of Intertheory Relations in Classical and Quantum Mechanics," Philosophy of Science (with Alexey Kryukov, 2003). He is currently writing a book on unification and evidence.

Professor Gibson's current research concerns the issue of atomist vs. holist theories of meaning and the role that idealizations such as "the principle of charity" and "optimality conditions" play in such theories. Her recent publications include From Naming to Saying (Blackwell, 2004) and "The Unity of the Sentence and the Connection of Causes," Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (1998).

Professor Gottlieb’s research concerns ancient Greek philosophy, especially issues in ethics and metaphysics. Her recent publications include a book-length analysis of and commentary on books I and II of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for Project Archelogos on the web at www.archelogos.com (2001), an introduction to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in Central Works of Philosophy Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy ed. John Shand (Acumen Publishing, 2005) and “The Practical Syllogism” in The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle’s Ethics ed. Richard Kraut (Blackwell, 2006). She recently wrote an entry on Aristotle on non-contradiction for the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy on the web at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-noncontradiction (2007). She is currently working on a book The Virtue of Aristotle’s Ethics.

Professor Hausman's research focuses on ethical, epistemological, and foundational issues at the boundaries between economics and philosophy, and on related questions concerning causation and health measurement. His main work on economic methodology is his The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics (Cambridge, 1992). His recent publications include Causal Asymmetries (Cambridge, 1998) and Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy (with Michael S. McPherson, Cambridge, 2006).

Professor Hunt's research has touched on ethics (both theoretical and applied), political philosophy, and the philosophy of Nietzsche. His recent publications include Character and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), and "Nussbaum on Emotion," Ethics (2006). He is currently at work on several projects in the area of aesthetics and on the presentation of ideas in particular works of art.

Professor Margolis's research in the philosophy of mind focuses on the nature of concepts, innateness, and issues related to representation. He is currently writing a book on how human beings acquire number concepts and the question of how numerical cognition is related to language. His recent publications include Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representation. (Oxford, 2007), “The Ontology of Concepts: Abstract Objects or Mental Representations” Noûs (2007), and “How to Learn the Natural Numbers: Inductive Inference and the Acquisition of Number Concepts” Cognition (in press).

Professor Nadler's research focuses on rationalism in the seventeenth century, particularly issues in metaphysics and epistemology, as well as conceptions of reason and happiness. He has written extensively on Descartes and Cartesianism (especially Malebranche and Arnauld), Spinoza and Leibniz. He also works on medieval and early modern Jewish philosophy. His recent publications include Spinoza's Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2006) and A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Blackwell, 2003). He is co-editor, with Daniel Garber, of Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. His forthcoming books are The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux), and The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century, which he has co-edited with Tamar Rudavsky.

Professor Rauti's research focuses on issues of semantic compositionality and understanding. He also works on Russell's early views concerning denoting and the relations between ontology and semantics. He is currently working on questions raised by partial or incomplete understanding, and on the relation between the use of linguistic expressions and their understanding. His recent publications include "Propositional Structure and B. Russell's Theory of Denoting in The Principles of Mathematics," History and Philosophy of Logic (2004).