Professor Aviles-Meza’s research lies at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and epistemology. His work focuses on consciousness, particularly its relationship to attention; the formats of mental representation, especially cognitive maps; and, more recently, the foundations of a theory of natural intelligence. He also has interests in aesthetics and South Asian (Buddhist) …
Biography My research is in ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. Most of my research has focused on philosophy of love, sex, and marriage, as well as procreative ethics. I have also written on the ethics and politics of disaster. I have interests in philosophy of literature and Kant’s and Hegel’s ethics. My current research …
Biography Professor Brighouse regularly teaches classes in applied ethics, political philosophy, and ethics; and he teaches a class for the First Year Interest Group program on Children and the Family, every 3 years. His research interests include all those topics, as well as philosophy of education; and he has an abiding interest in education (including higher …
My research is in epistemology and ethics, and often my work falls at the intersection of the two. For instance, I’ve written recently on the value of belief and knowledge, the source and norms of epistemic rationality, and the problem with motivated reasoning. Right now I’m drawing up a peace treaty for the so-called “amelioration wars” and …
Biography Professor Fletcher’s research interests lie primarily in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, especially ethics and moral psychology. She has written several articles about pleasure and human nature in Plato’s Philebus and Timaeus. She is currently working on a book Plato’s Republic, which offers a new reading of Socrates’ defense of justice. Her recent publications include “Cosmology and Human Nature …
Biography Professor Gibson works in philosophy of language and mind and on Kant. She has written on ‘the unity of the proposition’ (“The Unity of the Sentence and the Connection of Causes”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and the book, From Naming to Saying, Blackwell 2004) in which she proposes a pragmatic (Gricean) solution to the problem. She has …
Biography Professor Goodrich’s research focuses on normative ethics (e.g. rights, responsibility, justice, aggregation, and consequentialism) and the intersection of political philosophy and economics, especially on markets, property rights, and the relationships between them. Website.
Biography Professor Gottlieb’s research concerns ancient Greek philosophy, especially issues in Aristotle’s ethics and metaphysics. Her work includes a book-length analysis of and commentary on Books I and II of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for Project Archelogos (2001), “The Practical Syllogism” in The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics ed. Richard Kraut (Blackwell, 2006), The Virtue …
Biography Professor Kelleher studies ethical and philosophical aspects of public policy, especially climate change policy and health policy. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Social Cost of Carbon: Ethics and the Limits of Climate Change Economics (Oxford University Press, 2025), “The Ethics of Pollution Pricing,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (forthcoming and joint with Garth Heutel), and “Temporal …
I work in the philosophy of mind. I’m interested in what consciousness is, why it is so important to us, why things appear the way they do to us in sense perception, and whether the world is how it appears to be. I try to make progress on these big questions by looking at smaller …