Faculty members

Regular and Sessional Faculty

Name	Area	Contact
Dr. Allison Barnes Sessional Instructor Philosophy	Philosophy of Mind	Office: CLE B309 abarnes@uvic.ca (250) 853-3767
Dr. Nina Belmonte Assistant Teaching Professor Philosophy	History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Film	Office: CLE B326 belmonte@uvic.ca (250) 721-7518
Dr. Karen Brown Sessional Instructor Philosophy	Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Linguistic Semantics	Office: CLE B314 klbrown@uvic.ca (250) 472-5560
Dr. Margaret Anne Cameron Associate Dean Research - Humanities Philosophy	Aristotle, Philosophy of Logic and Language, History of Logic and Philosophy of Language	Office: CLE C306 margaret@uvic.ca (250) 721-7259
Dr. Chris Goto-Jones Dean of Humanities; Professor Philosophy	Ethics, Politics and Philosophy of mind/body.	Office: CLE C305 chrisgotojones@uvic.ca 250-472-4677
Dr. Thomas Heyd Sessional Instructor Philosophy	Aesthetics, Ethics, History of Philosophy with special interests in Environmental Aesthetics and Ethics, Philosophy of Prehistoric and Contemporary Art, Early Modern Philosophy	Office: CLE B309 heydt@uvic.ca (250) 853-3767 website
Dr. Eric Hochstein Assistant professor Philosophy	History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Social Epistemology, Metaphysics	Office: B330 ehochstein@uvic.ca (250) 721-7513 website
Dr. Cindy Holder Associate Professor Philosophy	Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ethical Theory (Normative Theory), History of Moral and Social Thought, Feminist Philosophy, Ethical Theory (Metaethics).	Office: CLE B322 clholder@uvic.ca (250) 721-7516 website
Klaus Jahn Assistant Teaching Professor Philosophy	Early Modern Philosophy, Kant and post-Kantian 19th C Philosophy, Phenomenology, Ethics and Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy.	Office: CLE B331 kjahn@uvic.ca (250) 853-3825
Dr. Carrie Klatt Assistant Teaching Professor Philosophy	Philosophy of Science (Physics, Mathematics) Spacetime and Quantum Theory, Philosophy of Education	Office: CLE B311 cklatt@uvic.ca (250) 853-3766
Dr. Eike-Henner Kluge Professor Philosophy	Biomedical and Information Ethics, Topics in the History of Philosophy	Office: CLE B313 ekluge@uvic.ca (250) 721-7519
Dr. Thomas Land Assistant Professor Philosophy	Kant, German Idealism, Early Modern, Analytic Kantianism, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Action Theory.	Office: CLE B326 tland@uvic.ca (250)721-7518
Dr. Colin Macleod Professor; Department Chair - on leave July 1st 2018 until June 30th 2019 Philosophy	Contemporary Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Law	Office: CLE B328 cmacleod@uvic.ca (250) 721-7521 website
Dr. Michael Raven Associate Professor Philosophy	Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language/Mind, Epistemology	Office: CLE B323 mike@raven.site (250) 721-7514 website
Dr. Clifford Roberts Assistant Professor Philosophy	Ancient Philosophy	Office: CLE B318 cliffordroberts@uvic.ca (250) 721-7221
Dr. Patrick Rysiew Professor Philosophy	Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science	Office: CLE B321 rysiew@uvic.ca (250) 721-7520 website
Dr. David Scott Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor Philosophy	Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics	Office: CLE B320 djfscott@uvic.ca (250) 721-7517
Dr. Scott Woodcock Associate Professor; Acting Chair July 1st 2018 until June 30th 2019; Applied Ethics Minor Coordinator Philosophy	Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Biology	Office: CLE B316 philchr@uvic.ca (250) 472-4462 website
Dr. Audrey Yap Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor Philosophy	Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Mathematics and Logic (esp. 19th and 20th century), Feminist Epistemology	Office: CLE B307 ayap@uvic.ca (250) 721-7510 website
Dr. James O. Young, FRSC Professor - on leave July 1st 2018 until June 30th 2019 Philosophy	Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Art (esp. Philosophy of Music)	Office: CLE B324 joy@uvic.ca (250) 721-7509

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6 days ago

Colloquium Friday (today)! Friday, October 12th, 2018 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Clearihue A303 Dr. Gina Rini (York University) Title: Moral Disagreement is Special Abstract: Most of the literature on moral disagreement is framed in strictly epistemic terms. I argue that this framing is misleading, as moral disagreement is unlike peer disagreement in other epistemic domains, owing the special character of the moral domain. I defend the claim that disagreement with peers gives us reason to reduce confidence in disputed moral beliefs, but not for epistemic reasons. Rather, we have moral reason to do so. Reducing confidence in this way is morally required by recognition respect for the moral agency of the peer with whom we disagree.

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UVic Philosophy

2 weeks ago

Victoria Colloquium Monday Oct 1 at 2:30PM COR A129 Speaker: Dr. Lori Gruen Title: Resistance Self-Respect: Another Challenge for Liberalism Lori Gruen is the author and editor of eleven books, including Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2011), The Ethics of Captivity (Oxford, 2014), and Entangled Empathy (Lantern, 2015) and the forthcoming Critical Terms for Animal Studies (2018) She is a Fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics and a Faculty Fellow at Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Animals and Public Policy and was the first chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Center for Prison Education at Wesleyan. Gruen has documented the history of The First 100 chimpanzees in research in the US and has an evolving website that documents the journey to sanctuary of the remaining chimpanzees in research labs The Last 1000. Her research lies at the intersection of ethical theory, political philosophy, and social practice. She has written on a range of topics and her current projects include exploring ethical and political questions raised by captivity and carceral logics.

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