Faculty

Jacqueline Feke

Associate Professor

Areas of interest

Ancient science, mathematics, and philosophy; history and philosophy of science

Greg Andres

Associate Professor- teaching stream, Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies

Areas of interest

Philosophy of Economics and Business Ethics

Steven Weinstein

Associate Professor (on leave)

Areas of interest

Philosophy of Science (especially Philosophy of Physics), Computation and Information

Brian Orend

Professor

Areas of interest:War and peace, human rights, international law and justice in general, Kant’s political philosophy, happiness, especially for those with chronic conditions. He is perhaps best-known for his work on “justice after war” (jus post bellum): i.e., the ethics of post-war reconstruction.

Areas of interest

Ethical theory, applied ethics, social philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of sex and love

Doreen Fraser

Professor

Areas of interest

Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, applicability of mathematics, analogies, history of physics (especially 17th, 19th and 20th Centuries)

Carla Fehr

Professor (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy) Gender and Social Justice Advisor

Areas of interest

feminist philosophy of science, feminist epistemology, feminist philosophy of biology, socially relevant philosophy of science, gender and diversity in STEM, animal studies

Chris Eliasmith

Professor, Director, Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience

Areas of interest

Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, theoretical neuroscience, philosophy of science, mental representation, neural computing, neural networks, neuromorphics, neural dynamics, semantic pointer architecture, neural engineering framework, large-scale neural modelling

Gerry Callaghan

Associate Professor- teaching stream, Extended Learning Coordinator

Areas of interest

Early modern philosophy, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of language