Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He has written and edited a number of books, most recently Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem. His research interests include the philosophy of biology, in particular the structure and foundations of evolutionary theory, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the nature of pseudoscience. He edits the online magazine Scientia Salon.   Lecture:.. Read More

Christopher Peacocke was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University from 1989 to 2000, then Professor at NYU, before moving to Columbia University in 2004, where he is currently the Johnsonian Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department. He works on the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and the perception of music.   Lecture: Metaphysics First: Explanatory Priority in Philosophy Peacocke will offer arguments that the metaphysics of a.. Read More

Frederick Neuhouser is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of four books: Rousseau’s Critique of Inequality; Rousseau’s Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition; Actualizing Freedom: Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory; and Fichte’s Theory of Subjectivity. He is currently working on a project about the idea of social pathology in 18th, 19th, and 20th century social philosophy.   Lecture: Rousseau, Fraternity, and.. Read More

Christopher Morris is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. His interests are in moral and political philosophy, practical ethics, legal theory, and the theory of practical rationality. Some of his current research develops the implications of his book An Essay on the Modern State (Cambridge University Press, 1998) for international affairs and world order and, in particular, legitimacy. He was for many years.. Read More

Barbara Montero is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. She is writing a book on thought and effort in expert action.   Lecture: I Think, Therefore I Can How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view that thinking about.. Read More

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU, specializing in the foundations of physics. He has written books on quantum theory and space-time structure, and has recently developed a new mathematical language for describing geometry. He is a member of the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences and the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi).   Lecture: A 15-Minute Proof That the World is Bizarre Maudlin will present a simple version of.. Read More

Antoine-Mahut started her research as a historian of philosophy working on the empirical part of Cartesian texts within a structuralist and contextualist approach. She then developed a wider study integrating the intellectual receptions and meditations. Antoine-Mahut focuses on the institutional and political dimension of the historiography of philosophy in France, with an emphasis on analyzing the interactions between philosophy and the experimental sciences (medicine in particular) and on the philosophical.. Read More

Christophe Litwin is a Cotsen Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows. He holds a dual PhD from NYU and EHESS (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales). A former student at the École Normale Supérieure, he taught philosophy for four years at the Sorbonne. He is the author of numerous articles on Montaigne, Pascal, Hobbes, Hume, Rousseau and the Enlightenment. He is currently finalizing his first book manuscript: Généalogies.. Read More

Samuel Lézé is Associate Professor at the ENS de Lyon and deputy director of the Human Sciences Department. His research interests focus on Freudianism within intellectual history and medical anthropology. He has recently co-edited with Didier Fassin, Moral Anthropology: A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2014).   Lecture: On Scandal Scandal is now becoming a dominant way to communicate in mass media: the news is deeply intertwined with moral sentiments. Philosophers are.. Read More

Alice Le Goff is Assistant Professor at Paris Descartes University. She has developed research in social and political theory and in the epistemology of social science. She recently co-edited, with Miriam Bankovsky, the collection Recognition Theory and Contemporary French Moral and Political Philosophy. Her current work aims to research the social and practical issues at stake in the sense of honor.   Lecture: Is Honor Obsolete in Modern Societies? It.. Read More