Southgate, Hank
Biography Dr. Southgate specializes in German Idealism and twentieth-century Continental philosophy. His current research focuses on developments and criticisms of systematic thought.
Biography Dr. Southgate specializes in German Idealism and twentieth-century Continental philosophy. His current research focuses on developments and criticisms of systematic thought.
Biography My research primarily focuses on philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. I’m especially interested in the nature of dispositions and dispositional accounts of various kinds (e.g., of mental states like belief, causation, and free will). I also work on moral philosophy and have lately been spending an inordinate amount of time thinking …
Biography Professor Streiffer’s research encompasses bioethics (both medical and agricultural), ethical theory, and political philosophy, with a focus on ethical and policy issues arising from modern biotechnology. Recent publications include “An Expanded Understanding of the Ethical Importance of Civic Engagement in Food Sourcing Decisions at the Institutional Level,” Public Philosophy Journal, (2018), ”The Confinement of Animals Used in Laboratory Research: …
Biography Professor Titelbaum’s research focuses on rationality, primarily as it comes up in epistemology and metaethics but also as it arises in ethics, decision theory, political philosophy, logic, and the philosophy of science. Recent publications include Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology (Oxford University Press 2022), “Self-Locating Beliefs” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2022), and “Reason without Reasons For” Oxford Studies in …
Biography Professor Vranas’s research in philosophical logic focuses on imperative and deontic logic. He is also currently working on moral dilemmas, time travel, and the implications of situationist psychology for ethics. His recent publications include “Beyond ought-implies-can: Impersonal obligatoriness implies historical contingency” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2024), “‘Ought’ implies ‘can’ but does not imply …
Biography Professor Watkins’ research encompasses several topics in philosophy of science, including philosophy of climate science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of the historical sciences (such as paleontology), and feminist philosophy of science. She is particularly interested in how scientists construct and use data, measurement processes, and models in order to make inferences about the natural …
Biography Professor Whittle’s work starts from paradoxes and logical results that are related to them, and considers the light these shed on broader philosophical issues. Recent publications include ‘Proving Unprovability’ (Review of Symbolic Logic 2017), ‘Size and Function’ (Erkenntnis 2018), ‘Truth and Generalized Quantification’ (Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2019), and ‘Ontological Pluralism and Notational Variance’ (to appear in Oxford Studies …
Biography Professor Zimmermann’s research interests cover a range of topics within the philosophy of AI and machine learning, political philosophy, moral philosophy, social and moral epistemology, philosophy of law and philosophy of science. At UW–Madison, Professor Zimmermann serves as a RISE-AI Thought Leader, is a member of the University’s interdisciplinary cluster in the ethics of computing, data, …