Alison M. Jaggar is Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Distinguished Research Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham.
Jaggar was a pioneer in feminist philosophy and a founder of the discipline of critical gender studies. Jaggar’s recent work on global justice disrupts gendered and racialized assumptions about transnational divisions of labor and migration. She has been a primary investigator in developing a metric of global poverty which incorporates the perspectives of poor people and is capable of revealing the gendered dimensions of poverty. Jaggar’s current work in moral epistemology aims to develop a method for epistemically justifying cross-border moral claims in real-world circumstances of cultural diversity and social inequality. |
Jonathan Wolff is the Blavatnik Chair in Public Policy in association with Wolfson College at the University of Oxford (also visit his personal webpage).
Wolff is a political philosopher who works on questions of equality, disadvantage and social justice. He has had a long standing interest in health and health promotion, including questions of justice in health care resource allocation, the social determinants of health, and incentives and health behaviour. His work in recent years has also turned to applied topics such as public safety, disability, gambling, and the regulation of recreational drugs, social equality and social exclusion. Wolff will deliver the public lecture on Social Inequality and Structural Injustice. |
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.
He has published four books, two in epistemology, one in philosophy of language and semantics, and one in social and political philosophy. His first book, Knowledge and Practical Interests (2005, OUP), was the winner of the 2007 American Philosophical Association book prize. Stanley’s second book, Language in Context (2007, OUP), is a collection of his papers in semantics published between 2000 and 2007 on the topic of linguistic communication and context. His third book is Know How (2011, OUP). In his more recent work, including How Propaganda Works (2015, Princeton University Press), he has brought insights from philosophy of language and epistemology to bear on questions of political philosophy. Stanley is currently working on a new book, entitled How Fascism Works. |
Ryoa Chung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal.
Her research interests include ethics in international relations, feminist philosophy and applied political philosophy, especially in the field of global health. She is currently working on the critical relation between structural injustice and epistemic injustice in order to examine the gendered and racialized dimensions of health inequalities. Her work is published both in English and in French and was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council as well as by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. |
Heather Widdows is the John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Her books include Global Ethics: An Introduction, The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual, and The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch.
Her new book Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal will be launched with a wine reception on 1 June |