Todor Todorov is a Bulgarian philosopher and fiction writer. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski.” His main fields of study include: History of Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Social and Cultural History of Photography, Media and Communication Studies, and Media and Culture. His latest and ongoing research project is called: Re-enchanting the World: Media Distortions and the Minimal Self. Todorov is the.. Read More

Claudine Tiercelin is Professor at the College of France, where she holds the Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge. She is also a member of the Institut Jean Nicod. Her works build on both the tradition of French rationalism and on the inheritance of the founder of pragmatism, Charles S. Peirce. She defends a scientific metaphysics, both realistic and rational, in which the essentially dispositional properties of things, viewed.. Read More

Isidora Stojanovic is a CNRS researcher at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris. She works primarily in philosophy of language and semantics, with further interests in logic, epistemology, and cognitive science. Her research focuses on context-dependence, indexicality, evaluative language, the foundations of semantics, and the relationship between logic and grammar. Lecture: Will This Be Worthwhile? You are deliberating whether to attend this talk or, rather, go for drinks instead. As.. Read More

Céline Spector is Professor in Political Philosophy at the University Bordeaux Montaigne. Her recent publications include: Montesquieu. Liberté, droit et histoire; Au prisme de Rousseau. Usages politiques contemporain; Penser l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle. Commerce, Civilisation, Empire (edited with A. Lilti); and Rousseau. Les paradoxes de l’autonomie démocratique.   Lecture: Who’s the Fool in Political Theory? In Hobbes’ Leviathan as in Shakespeare’s King Lear, the Fool’s insight reveals the fragility of justice.. Read More

Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He works primarily in the foundations of ethics. He is the organizer of the annual Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop, the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and the administrator of the Marc Sanders Prize for Younger Scholars in Metaethics.   Lecture: Why Moral Relativism Appeals–and Why We Should Resist Moral relativism is the idea that morality.. Read More

Susan Schneider is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut, a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and a member of the Technology and Ethics Group at Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. Her books include The Language of Thought: a New Philosophical Direction, Science Fiction and Philosophy, and The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Her work centers on the nature of the self.. Read More

Susanna Schellenberg specializes in epistemology and philosophy of mind. She is best known for her work on perceptual experience, evidence, capacities, mental content, and imagination. She is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, where she holds a secondary appointment at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Her work has been published in journals such as Noûs, The Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.  .. Read More

Sophie Roux is Professor at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Among her recent publications are Thought Experiments in Historical and Methodological Contexts (ed. with Ierodiakonou); La mathématisation comme problème (ed. with Chabot); L’Essai de logique de Mariotte. Archéologie des idées d’un savant ordinaire; L’automate. Machine, métaphore, modèle, merveille (ed. with Gaillard et al.); and The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy (ed. with Garber).   Lecture: Is a Thought Experiment an Experiment?.. Read More

Alex Rosenberg joined the Duke faculty in 2000. He is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy (with secondary appointments in the biology and political science departments). Rosenberg has been a visiting professor and fellow at the University of Minnesota, as well as the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Oxford University and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. He has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation,.. Read More

Roger Pouivet is Professor at the University of Lorraine and Archives Poincaré (CNRS). He has published works in the fields of philosophy of art and philosophy of religion, including Qu’est-ce que croire? The Right to Believe: Perspectives in Religious Epistemology (ed., with D. Lukasiewicz), and L’Épistémologie des croyances religieuses.   Lecture: Is Religious Faith Rational? Religious faith is sometimes presented as irrational, both by those who reject it and by.. Read More