ABOUT THE FEATURED SPEAKERS JEREMY BUTTERFIELD Jeremy Butterfield is a philosopher of physics. He was originally trained in analytic philosophy and mathematics. Until the mid-1980s, he worked on the metaphysics of time and indexicality. But since then, he has specialized in the philosophy of physics, and worked mainly on the following topics: (i) quantum non-locality (mainly during 1988-1994), (ii) the quantum measurement problem, especially the Everett interpretation, (iii) realism about spacetime, especially in general relativity, (iv) philosophical aspects of the search for quantum gravity, (v) the application of topos theory to physics (during 1998-2002), (vi) symmetry, (vii) foundations and philosophy of classical mechanics, (viii) identity and indistinguishability in quantum theory, and (ix) emergent phenomena and reductions in physics. 
JOHN CAMPBELL
ELIZABETH FRICKER
SEBASTIAN GARDNER Sebastian Gardner’s main research interests are in Kant and Post-Kantian philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis.
HANNAH GINSBORG
ADRIAN HADDOCK Adrian Haddock is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He works on action, perceptual knowledge, and objectivity. He is currently working on action and self-consciousness, and on the idea of an absolute conception of reality. His most recent publications include: ‘McDowell, Transcendental Philosophy, and Naturalism’, Philosophical Topics, vol. 37., no. 1 (2009): 63-76; ‘The Disjunctive Conception of Perceiving’, Philosophical Explorations, vol. 14, no. 1 (2011): 23-42; ‘“The knowledge that a man has of his intentional actions”’, in Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby, and Frederick Stoutland (eds.) Essays on Anscombe’s Intention (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011); ‘Davidson and Idealism’, in Joel Smith and Peter Sullivan (eds.) Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
JOHN HAWTHORNE
BEATRICE LONGUENESSE Béatrice Longuenesse is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her past research has focused on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. Her published books include: Kant and the Capacity to Judge (1998), where she argues that Kant’s conception of judgment and its logical forms is the key to central arguments in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason; Kant on the Human Standpoint (2005), where she broadens her investigation of Kant’s view of judgment to Kant’s practical philosophy and aesthetic theory; Hegel’s Critique of Metaphysics (2006), where she investigates central themes in Hegel’s Science of Logic in light of Hegel’s debt to Kant. She is the editor, with Dan Garber, of the volume of essays Kant and the Early Moderns (2008), where leading Kant scholars and leading scholars of early modern philosophy were invited to examine the extent to which our own reading of early modern philosophers is shaped, for better or worse, by Kant’s reformulation, for his own philosophical purposes, of early modern concepts and arguments. In addition to her books, Longuenesse has published numerous articles on Kant and the German idealist tradition as well as, more recently, articles in contemporary systematic philosophy. She is now working on a book that will take its starting point in contemporary discussions of self-consciousness and personal identity and work its way back to Kant. One major argument of the book will be that contemporary discussions of the first person pronoun “I” stand to benefit from a better understanding of Kant’s view. One important area of investigation in the book is the comparison between post-Wittgensteinian analyses of the distinction between “use of ‘I’ as subject” and “use of ‘I’ as object,” on the one hand; and Kant’s distinction between “consciousness of oneself as subject” and “consciousness of oneself as an object,” on the other hand. More generally, the investigation focuses on our use of the first person pronoun “I” and its role in our mental life. Longuenesse’s interest in the relation between Kant and Freud emerged in this context. Freud’s concept of “ego,” she argues, offers a naturalized account of the transcendental unity of apperception that, according to Kant, makes possible our use of “I” in language and thought. More generally, Kant’s analysis of “I” might well have stronger connections to Freud’s investigations into the structures of mental life than to contemporary analyses of the varieties of self-reference.
DAVID OWENS David Owens is the author of Reason Without Freedom (Routledge 2000) and Causes and Coincidences (Cambridge University Press 1992), as well as a number of articles in epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and the history of early modern philosophy. His current research interests are mainly in ethics and moral psychology. His forthcoming book Shaping the Normative Landscape (Oxford University Press) focuses on blame, wronging and obligation and their involvement in forgiveness, friendship, promising and consent.
CHRISTOPHER PEACOCKE
GOPAL SREENIVASAN Gopal Sreenivasan’s work in bioethics has concentrated mainly on questions of distributive justice and health, both domestically and internationally. He is also very interested in the ethics of informed consent. He has published articles on a wide range of other topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy, including rights; democracy; judicial review; international agreements; global distributive justice; cross-cultural ethics; and moral psychology. He is currently completing his second book, Emotion and Virtue (Princeton). His first book was The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property (Oxford 1995). Sreenivasan received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to Duke, he taught at Princeton University and the University of Toronto. Between 2000 and 2002, he was a Senior Fellow in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the NIH.
R. JAY WALLACE R. Jay Wallace works in moral philosophy. His interests extend to all parts of the subject (including its history), and to such allied areas as political philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of action. His research has focused on responsibility, moral psychology, and the theory of practical reason. Recently he has written on promising, normativity, constructivism, instrumental reason, resentment, hypocrisy, and Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals (among other topics). Current research projects include a book on regret and affirmation, The View from Here, and a study of the relational elements in moral theory (working title: The Moral Nexus). Wallace was an undergraduate at Williams College, where he received the B.A. degree in 1979. He did his graduate work at the University of Oxford (B.Phil. 1983) and at Princeton University (Ph.D. 1988). He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and has held visiting positions at the Universität Bielefeld, in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand). He was Chair of the Philosophy Department at Berkeley from 2005–2010, and his honors include a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a senior Research Award (“Forschungspreis”) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
JONATHAN WOLFF Jonathan Wolff is a political philosopher specialising in the connection between political philosophy and policy, especially in relation to health. He has recently published a book entitled Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge 2011). A short book entitled The Human Right to Health, will be published by Norton in 2012 in their Global Ethics series. He is also editing a volume of G.A. Cohen's Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy, to be published by Princeton University Press. Other recent work includes Disadvantage (with Avner de-Shalit, OUP 2007), and various papers on disability, global health, the history of analytic political philosophy, equality, the value of life and health, and especially the ethics of risk, for which he was principal investigator on an AHRC funded project. He is also a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and writes a monthly column in the Guardian. SUGGESTIONS If you would like to suggest a topic or speaker(s) for future Joint Sessions, please use the form below.
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