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| Name | Position | Organization | Location | Area of Specialization | Self-Identification | Research |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andersen, Holly | Associate Professor | Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, British Columbia Canada |
Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology and Medicine, Action, Pragmatism | [W] | Causation, Explanation, Time, Temporal Experience |
| Ankeny, Rachel | Professor | University of Adelaide | Adelaide, SA Australia |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Models, cases, epistemological issues in science/medicine, norms and values, disease |
| Au, Yin Chung | PhD researcher | Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London | London, UK |
Asian (e.g. Chinese, Indian, etc.) Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [A] [NC] [W] | Philosophy of Biological Practice, Scientific Representation, Philosophy of Imperial Chinese Rituals |
| Bianchi, Emanuela | Assistant Professor | New York University | New York, New York United States |
19th & 20th Century Philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, European Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Gender, Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalytic Theory, Social | [W] [LGBTQ+] | |
| Bradner, Alexandra | Visiting Assistant Professor | Kenyon College | Gambier, Ohio United States |
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Epistemology, Experimental Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychology/Cognitive Science, Feminist Philosophy, Metaethics | [W] | Explanation and Understanding, Ethics of Care, Pyrrhonian Skepticism, Experimental Philosophy |
| Breitenbach, Angela | Lecturer | University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK |
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] [NC] | Kant, Kantian Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics in Science |
| Brincker, Maria | Assistant Professor | University of Massachusetts Boston | Boston, Massachusetts United States |
19th and 20th Century Philosophy, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, European Philosophy, Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Computing, Information, and | [W] [NC] | Privacy |
| Casetta, Elena | Assistant Professor | Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin | Turin, Italy |
Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Biodiversity, Species Problem, Natural Kinds, Biological Individuality |
| Chiu, Lynn | Post-doc | University of Bordeaux/CNRS | Bordeaux, France |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science | [A] [W] Taiwanese | |
| Clarke, Ellen | Post-Doc | All Souls College, Oxford | Oxford, UK |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | |
| Cormier, Harvey | Associate Professor | Stony Brook University | Stony Brook, New York United States |
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Race, Pragmatism | [M] [B] African-American | History of Modern Philosophy |
| Craig, Lindsay | Assistant Professor (NTT) | Temple University | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | |
| Crane, Judith | Professor and Chair | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | Edwardsville, Illinois United States |
Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology | [W] | |
| Crozier, G. K. D. | Assistant Professor | Laurentian University | Sudbury, Ontario Canada |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | |
| Dang, Haixin | Graduate Student | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Science, Social and Political Philosophy | [W] [A] Chinese | |
| Delehanty, Megan | Assistant Professor | University of Calgary | Calgary, Alberta Canada |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Imaging Technologies, Empiricism, Reductionism |
| Detlefsen, Karen | Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
Early Modern Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Gender | [W] | Early Modern History and Philosophy of Science, Especially Biology, Early Modern Women Philosophers |
| Donovan, Caitrin | Graduate Student ** | University of Sydney | Sydney, New South Wales Australia |
Applied Ethics, Epistemology, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science | [D] [W] | Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophical Psychopathology, Mental Health Ethics |
| Driscoll, Catherine | Associate Professor | North Carolina State University | Raleigh, North Carolina United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Evolution of Cognition, Cultural Evolution |
| Ernst, Waltraud | Researcher | Johannes Kepler University Linz | Linz, Austria |
19th & 20th Century Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, GRIDS+, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Computing, Information, and Technology, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Love and Sex, Philosophy of Science, | [LGBTQ+] [NC] [W] | Feminist Epistemology |
| Estrada, Daniel | Lecturer | New Jersey Institute of Technology | Newark, New Jersey United States |
Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Computing, Information, and Technology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science, Pragmatism, Social and Politi | [A] [L/H] [M] [MR] [O] Japanese Mexican | Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Technology, Complex Systems Theory |
| Fagan, Melinda | Associate Professor | University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Social Epistemology, Science in Practice |
| Fehr, Carla | Associate Professor | University of Waterloo | Waterloo, Ontario Canada |
Feminist Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Science | [W] First generation university student | Equity and diversity in science and engineering, The structure and function of epistemic communities, Socially relevant philosophy of science, Ethical dimensions of biological research on sex and gender, The science and ethics of human relationships with companion animals |
| Fleming, Leonore | Associate Professor | Utica College | Utica, New York United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Science | [W] [I] Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation | Evolutionary Biology |
| Garbayo, Luciana | Assistant Professor | University of Texas at El Paso | EL Paso, Texas United States |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Decision, Game, and Rational Choice Theory, Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science | [L/H] [MR] [NC] [W] South American | Normative and Descriptive Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science in Practice |
| GarcIa, Claudia-Lorena | Researcher | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico |
Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology | [W] [L/H] Mexican | Phylogeny of Cognitive Capacities in Human and Non-Human Animals |
| Hardcastle, Valerie | Professor | University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, Ohio United States |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Philosophy of Psychiatry, Neuroethics |
| Illari, Phyllis | Lecturer | University College London | London, UK |
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Computing, Information, and Technology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [W] | Causality, Mechanisms, Information, Data |
| Ishida, Yoichi | Assistant Professor | Ohio University | Athens, Ohio United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [M] [A] Japanese | |
| Kendig, Catherine | Assistant Professor | Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan United States |
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Classification, Kinds, Scientific Practice, Emerging Technologies, Philosophy of Race |
| Kingsbury, Justine | Senior Lecturer | University of Waikato | Hamilton, New Zealand |
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, Practical Reason | [W] | Teleosemantics |
| Kober, Gal | Associate Professor | Bridgewater State University | Bridgewater, Massachusetts United States |
Applied Ethics, Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Child and Reproduction Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [NC] [W] | |
| Kok, Robert | Graduate Student * | San Francisco State University | San Francisco, California United States |
Comparative Philosophy, Epistemology, History of Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Physics | [A] Cambodian | |
| Kronfeldner, Maria | Associate Professor | Central European University | Budapest, Hungary Hungary |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science, Social and Political Philosophy, General Philosophy of Science | [W] first-generation college student non-native English speaker | Science and Values, Human Nature, Nature-Nurture, Dehumanization, Causation, Explanation, Complexity, Creativity |
| Leonelli, Sabina | Professor | University of Exeter | Exeter, UK |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] [NC] | Data, Modeling, Classification, Social Epistemology, Values, Inference |
| L'Hote, Crystal | Associate Professor | Saint Michael's College | Vermont, USA |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science | [W] [LGBTQ+] | Metaphysics of Mind |
| Lloyd, Elisabeth | Endowed Chair | Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism | [LGBTQ+] [W] | Philosophy of Climate Science |
| Loo, Clement | Assistant Professor * | University of Minnesota, Morris | Morris, Minnesota United States |
Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [A] | environmental justice, food justice, values in science and social science |
| Maglo, Koffi | Associate Professor | University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, Ohio United States |
Applied Ethics, Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Science, Social and Political Philosophy | [B] [M] | |
| Mariscal, Carlos | Assistant Professor | University of Nevada, Reno | Reno, Nevada |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [M] [L/H] Mexican | Philosophy of Astrobiology |
| Matthen, Mohan | Professor | University of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario Canada |
Ancient Greek and Roman, Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind | [M] [MR] [OR] [O] South [A] | Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology |
| Meynell, Letitia | Associate Professor | Dalhousie University | Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada |
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Use of Pictures in Science, Feminist Critiques of Biology (including Critical Animal Studies) |
| Millikan, Ruth | Professor Emerita | University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut United States |
Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology | [W] | |
| Mitchell, Sandra | Professor | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Explanation of Complex Behavior, Pragmatic Metaphysics |
| Nersessian, Nancy | Research Associate (Professor Emerita) | Harvard University (Georgia Tech) | Cambridge, Massachusetts United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science | [W] | |
| Plutynski, Anya | Associate Professor | Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | |
| Potochnik, Angela | Associate Professor | University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, Ohio United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Scientific Explanation, Idealization, Models in Science and Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology, History of Logical Empiricism |
| Rosario, Esther | Graduate Student * | University of Alberta | Edmonton, Alberta Canada |
Philosophy of Biology, Feminist Philosophy | [L/H] [W] | |
| Santana, Carlos | Assistant Professor | University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
Applied Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science | [L/H] [M] Mexican | Conservation Biology, Linguistics, Cultural Evolution |
| Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine | Courtesy Professor | University of Oregon | Eugene, Oregon United States |
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind | [W] | Philosophy of Body |
| Singh, Amitpal | Graduate/Law Student * | University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada |
Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Moral Psychology, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Science, Social and Political Philosophy | [OR] Sikh | |
| Smithdeal, Matthew | Graduate Student * | University of British Columbia | Vancouver, British Columbia Canada |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology | [LGBTQ+] [OG] Genderqueer | Psychological essentialism |
| Solomon, Miriam | Professor | Temple University | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, GRIDS+, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science | [W] | |
| Spencer, Quayshawn | Associate Professor | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Science | [M] [B] African-American Caribbean | |
| Sullivan-Bissett, Ema | Lecturer (Permanent Faculty Member) | University of Birmingham | Birmingham, UK |
Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology | [W] | Belief, Biological Function, Delusion, Normativity |
| Tobin, Emma | Lecturer in Philosophy of Science | University College London | London, UK |
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [W] | Classification Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature, Epistemology of Science, Metaphysics of Science |
| Valles, Sean | Associate Professor | Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan United States |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science | [I] [L/H] [M] [MR] Mexican | |
| VandeWall, Holly | Associate Professor of the Practice | Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts United States |
Philosophy of Science, Applied Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, | [W] | History of Science, Science and Religion |
| Varma, Charissa | Post-Doc | University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Biology | [W] [MR] | History of Biology, Darwin, History of Logic |
| Venkatapuram, Sridhar | Senior Lecturer | Kings College London | London UK, |
Applied Ethics, Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Ethics, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science, Social and Political Philosophy | [A] [LGBTQ+] [M] [O] Indian | Theories of Social/Global Justice, Capabilities Approach |
| Wilson, Catherine | Professor | University of York (UK) and CUNY Graduate Center | York, England and New York United States |
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Early Modern European Philosophy, Meta-Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Neuroscience | [W] | |
| Valde, Katherine | Assistant Professor | Wofford College | Spartanburg, SC United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | |
| DE BRUN, MARCUS | AUTHOR/EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHER/MEDICAL DOCTOR | ROYAL COLLEGE GENERAL PRACTICE NEW ZEALAND | NEW ZEALAND, New Zealand |
Applied Ethics, Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Child, Family, Parenting, and Reproduction Ethics, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, European Philosophy, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, | [M] | SEXUALITY, PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY,INSTINCT,MIND,ZIZEK, NEW THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGY, BEING AND BELONGING |
| Millstein, Roberta L | Professor | University of California, Davis | Davis, CA United States |
Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Chance/Probability/Indeterminism, Causality, Land Ethic, Ecosystems/Communities/Populations, Race, Natural Selection/Sexual Selection/Random Drift |
| Reydon, Thomas | Professor | Leibniz Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany |
Bioethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology | [M] [MR] [NC] | Classification, Evolutionary Theory, Natural Kinds |
| Figueroa, Richard | Graduat Student * | University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
Bioethics, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science | [L/H] | Philosophy of conservation biology |
| Otsuka, Jun | Associate Professor | Kyoto University | Sakyo, Kyoto Japan |
Philosophy of Biology | [A] | |
| Boyle, Ali | Research Fellow | Trinity Hall, Cambridge | Cambridge, Cambs United Kingdom |
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science | [W] | Animal Minds, Memory, Mental Time Travel, Social Cognition, The Evolution of Cognition, The Metaphysics of Organisms |
| Phillips-Brown, Milo | Graduate Student | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts United States |
Applied Ethics, Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind | [D] | Ethics of technology, desire, desire ascriptions |
| Constant, Axel | PhD student | The University of Sydney | , Australia |
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science | [M] [MR] | Computational Psychiatry, Evolutionary Psychiatry, Cultural Psychiatry, 4E Cognition, Predictive Processing, The Free Energy Principle, Niche, Construction Theory, Depression, Autism |
| Nave, Kathryn | Graduate Student * | The University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, Midlothian United Kingdom |
20th Cent. Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science | [W] | Predictive Processing, Free Energy Principle, Enactivism, Phenomenology, 4E Cognition, Embodied Cognition, Life-Mind Continuity |
| Mohseni, Aydin | Doctoral Candidate * | University of California, Irvine | Irvine, CA United States |
Decision, Game, and Rational Choice Theory, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [MENA] [OG] | (Formal, Social) Epistemology of Science, Evolutionary Game Theory |
| Lang, Martha Louise | Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy | Florida State Uiversity | Tallahassee, FL United States |
Applied Ethics, Comparative Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, Epistemology, Ethics, Existentialism, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, Practical Ethics, Process Philosophy | [W] | Complexity, Metaphilosophy |
| Roige, Aida | Graduate student | University of Maryland, College Park | , United States |
Bioethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Love and Sex, Philosophy of Mind | [L/H] [LGBTQ+] [NC] [W] | |
| Veit, Walter | Graduate Student * | University of Sydney | Sydney, NSW Australia |
Bioethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [LGBTQ+] [NC] [D] autism | My primary research interests lie at the intersection of the biological, behavioral, and cognitive sciences. |
| Khalidi, Muhammad Ali | Professor | York University | , Canada |
Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [MENA] Arab Palestinian | |
| Laukaityte, Urte | Graduate Student | University of California, Berkeley | , United States |
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science | [LGBTQ+] [NC] [W] | Philosophy of Psychiatry |