Our research areas
Our officially approved fields are:
Language, Logic, and Metaphysics
- Dave DeVidi (logic)
- Jennifer Saul (pragmatics, social and political philosophy of language, and social metaphysics)
- John Turri (nature of knowledge and assertion)
Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
- Chris Eliasmith (philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science)
- Carla Fehr (artificial intelligence and bias)
- Jennifer Saul (implicit bias and political psychology)
- John Turri (cognitive science)
Ethics and Political Philosophy
- Dave DeVidi (disability theory)
- Mathieu Doucet (moral psychology, applied ethics, and public policy)
- Carla Fehr (feminist philosophy of science)
- Jacqueline Feke (history of science and ethics)
- Katy Fulfer (applied ethics, feminist philosophy, and the study of Hannah Arendt)
- Chris Lowry (social and political philosophy, disability and justice, and bioethics)
- Patricia Marino (ethics, and philosophy of sex and love)
- Brian Orend (human rights, just war theory, happiness and philosophy of illness)
- Katie Plaisance (feminist philosophy of science)
- Jennifer Saul (feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and the ethics of deception)
Philosophy of Science and Mathematics
- Dave DeVidi (philosophy of mathematics)
- Chris Eliasmith (philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science)
- Carla Fehr (feminist philosophy of science and philosophy of biology)
- Jacqueline Feke (history and philosophy of science and mathematics)
- Doreen Fraser (philosophy of physics and philosophy of mathematics)
- Patricia Marino (philosophy of economics)
- Katie Plaisance (philosophy of science, particularly behavioural science)
- John Turri (cognitive science)
We have particularly large and active clusters of research in the following:
- Bioethics and applied ethics: Dave DeVidi, Mathieu Doucet, Katy Fulfer, Chris Lowry, Patricia Marino, Brian Orend
- Cognitive science and philosophy of psychology: Chris Eliasmith, Carla Fehr, John Turri, Jennifer Saul
- Feminist philosophy: Carla Fehr, Katy Fulfer, Katie Plaisance, Patricia Marino, Jennifer Saul
