Visiting and Affiliated Fellows
Affiliated Faculty Fellows
Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Much of his recent research is in Epistemology and Philosophy of Language, especially connections between traditional abstract questions and applied feminist, social, and political issues, and Ethics, especially feminist sexual ethics. Some particular issues he's focusing on include: connections between ideological disagreement and epistemic internalism and externalism; connections between skepticism, conservatism, and oppression; defensiveness as a barrier to self-knowledge and social progress; and the proper role of consent in sexual ethics.
Matt King
Matt King is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he has taught since 2014. He works on topics in ethics, the philosophy law, and on matters of agency and responsibility. Currently, he is focused on two projects. One concerns the nature and norms of holding each other responsible; the other involves examining the ways in which familiar philosophical tools can helps individuals successfully relate to each other, especially in disagreement.
Fiona Woollard
Fiona Woollard is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton. Fiona’s main current research is in the philosophy of pregnancy, birth and early motherhood. Fiona’s work explores how philosophical mistakes in our understanding of motherhood lead to conflict amongst mothers and others with interests in parenting. These mistakes make it difficult to talk about parenting decisions such as how to give birth, how to feed one's baby and how to deal with sleep issues. Parents end up feeling judged and unsupported. Fiona aims both to understand why conversations about parenting can go wrong – and to use that understanding to help parents.
Affiliated Graduate Fellows
Shalom Chalson
Shalom is a fourth-year PhD student in Philosophy at the Australian National University. Her main interests are in social and political philosophy. Her research concerns discrimination, particularly what it is and what makes it wrong. Discrimination can both produce and prolong interpersonal conflict in our societies. Understanding what discrimination is and what makes it wrong can inform policy and the law so as to reduce discrimination and, accordingly, interpersonal conflict.
Daniel Friedman
Daniel Friedman is a 5th year PhD student in Philosophy at Stanford University. His main research interests concern the way in which cooperative ties make a difference to important socio-epistemic practices. For example, he focuses on the difference social pressures of cooperation make to when and how closing inquiry and forming settled attitudes can be done in epistemically rational fashion. A central upshot of this work concerns how epistemic norms structure communities of inquirers to avoid forms of epistemic conflict, and how they allow inquirers to respond differently, then they would otherwise, to disagreement.