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
Philosophy of Economics and Business Ethics
Early modern philosophy, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of language
Ethics, moral psychology
My current research project focuses on the ethics of drug policy. Many arguments about drugs and drug policy implicitly assume an account of both the nature and the harms of addiction. My project aims to unpack these assumptions, with the aim of contributing to a more just and ethical approach to drug policy.
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
Areas of graduate supervision
I’m happy to supervise students within my areas of interest.
Current research
Ancient science, mathematics, and philosophy; history and philosophy of science
Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, applicability of mathematics, analogies, history of physics (especially 17th, 19th and 20th Centuries)
Feminist ethics, animal and environmental ethics, bioethics, philosophy of Hannah Arendt
Areas of interest: Contemporary European Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature
Education: Professor Holmes received his degrees from the University of Montana and Washington University. He received his PhD in 1972.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Angus Kerr-Lawson died late June 2011 shortly after his daughters accepted the honour of Distinguished Professor Emeritus on his behalf at the spring convocation.
Social and political philosophy, bioethics, and applied ethics
Ethical theory, applied ethics, social philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of sex and love
Former member of the Department of Philosophy, Anne Minas, died late September 2015 at the age of 78.
Anne Minas made a lasting mark on the University of Waterloo with her endowment of the Humphrey Professorship in Feminist Philosophy. This professorship allows the department to bring distinguished feminist philosophers to the University of Waterloo for a term.
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
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Biology, Socially- and Scientifically-Engaged Philosophy of Science, Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Racist and sexist language, diversifying academia, implicit bias, pragmatics, deception
Experimental philosophy and cognitive science
Philosophy of Science (especially Philosophy of Physics), Computation and Information
Judy was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1934. She received a BA from Swarthmore in 1955, and her MA and Ph.D. from Yale. Her 1963 dissertation was titled A Study of the Rationality in Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment. After a short stint as a Lecturer at Northeastern University, she joined the Waterloo Philosophy Department in 1965, where she worked until her retirement in 2002.
