The Philosophy Department at Carleton University is home to an active research community. Members of the department publish in various subdisciplines of philosophy, including philosophy of mind and language, theoretical and practical ethics, feminist philosophy, the history of philosophy, philosophy of science, aesthetics, and other areas. Over half of our permanent faculty members hold, or have held, external research grants. Department members have published books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Rowman and Littlefield, and MIT Press. Philosophy students at Carleton often have the opportunity to engage in advanced research, in collaboration with and under the mentorship of faculty members.
Many department members are involved in interdisciplinary and collaborative research; we have close working relationships with colleagues in Cognitive Science, English, the School for Studies in Art and Culture, the College of the Humanities, Sociology/Anthropology, and Political Science, among other units. The department is also home to Carleton University’s Centre on Ethics and Values, an interdisciplinary research centre that takes advantage of Carleton’s location in the national capital by fostering conversations about issues in ethics and public policy between academics and members of the public sector.
Research Accomplishments from 2022, early 2023, or forthcoming
Research Grants:
Gabriele Contessa
Insight Development Grant, SSHRC, Public Trust in Science: A Social Approach, ($32,020),SSHRC, 2022–2024.
Jay Drydyk
SSHRC Connections Grant: Development Ethics Forum. $12,000. 2022.
Melissa Frankel
FASS Mid-Career Research grant, “Dreams in Early Modern Philosophy”: 10,000 CDN. 2021-22.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews:
Andrew Brook
Transcendental Self and Intelligible Self, Russia Kant Conference, April 2022, in Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy.
Proposal for Commentary: Clark, H. H. and K. Fischer, Social Robots as Depictions of Social Agents, with Marina Nekrasova and Josh Redstone. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Submitted April 2022.
Kyla Bruff
“Introduction,” co-authored with Sean J. McGrath and Joseph Carew, The Palgrave Schelling Handbook, co-edited with Sean J. McGrath and Joseph Carew, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (forthcoming).
“Schelling and the Frankfurt School,” The Palgrave Schelling Handbook, Sean J. McGrath, Kyla Bruff, and Joseph Carew, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (forthcoming)
Thomas Buchheim, “Schelling’s Late Philosophy,” co-translated with Majk Feldmeier, The Palgrave Schelling Handbook, Sean J. McGrath, Kyla Bruff, and Joseph Carew, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (translation from German; forthcoming)
“The State as Second Nature in Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism,” Life,Organism and Human Nature: Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy, Luca Corti andJohannes-Georg Schülein, eds., Berlin: Springer Nature, 2023 (in press)
“Enlightenment and Revolution,” The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism, Daniel Whistler and Tilottama Rajan, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Gabriele Contessa
‘It Takes a Village to Trust Science: Towards A (Thoroughly) Social Approach to Public Trust in Science’, Erkenntnis, forthcoming.
Book Review of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy,38: 315–320. 2022.
‘Shopping for Experts’, Synthese, 200, 2022: 1-21.
Eros Corazza
Contextual Minds. (with Jérôme Dokic) (forthcoming)
Mind, World, and Knowledge: The Rationalist Program and its Origins (forthcoming)
“Some Notes on The Indexical Point of View”. Manuscrito (forthcoming)
(with C. Genovesi & J. Hesse). “Metaphorical Proper Names and the Continuity
Hypothesis”. Journal of Semantics (2023)
“The Name-Notion Network: On How to Conciliate Two Approaches to Naming andReference-Fixing”. Topoi (2023)
“Frege on Identity and Co-Reference”. Organon F 29 (1): 26-46 (https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29102) (2022)
“Some Notes on Cognitive Dynamic: Inspired by Y. Bozickovic’s The Indexical Point
of View”. Manuscrito 45 (3): 84-98 (2022)
Gordon Davis
“Éthique et impersonnalité: Identité personnelle et conséquentialisme chez Sartre et le Mahayana”, a chapter co-authored with P. Hoyeck & N. Ramlakhan, forthcoming in G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds), Le souci sans soi : deux traditions philosophiques en dialogue
“Les vertus du consequentialisme et le consequentialisme de la vertu chez Hume, à travers le prisme bouddhique”, a chapter co-authored with Charles Goodman, forthcoming in G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds), Le souci sans soi : deux traditions philosophiques en dialogue
“Lumiére naturelle et luminosité axiologique chez Descartes et Vasubandhu”, forthcoming in G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds), Le souci sans soi : deux traditions philosophiques en dialogue
Why would a Buddha lie? Varieties of Buddhist Consequentialism”, in M. Hemmingsen (ed), Ethical Theory in Global Perspective (SUNY, forthcoming)
G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds), Le souci sans soi : deux traditions philosophiques en dialogue (2022)
Jay Drydyk
With Susanna Price. Introduction. In Resettlement with People First: Counterfactual Pathways, ed. Susanna Price and Jay Drydyk, pp. xx-yy. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, forthcoming.
With Diana Velasco and Kerry O’Neill. Empowerment and Poverty. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, ed. Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak.9399 words, in press.
Development Ethics. In Elgar Encylopedia of Development, ed. Matthew Clarke, 3692 words. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, in press.
Melissa Frankel
“Materialism and Immaterialism,” in The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley, ed. Samuel Rickless, Oxford University Press: 107-127 (2022)
Christine Koggel
“Feminist Philosophy and Poverty” in Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, edited by Gottfried Schweiger and Sedmak Clemens. Routledge. (Forthcoming 2023)
“Indigenous Voices and Relationship: Insights from Care Ethics and Accounts of Hermeneutical Injustice” in Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives, edited by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald, and Fiona Robinson. Rutgers University Press. (Forthcoming 2023)
“Feminist Relational Theory: Introduction” in Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches and Applications. Co-edited by Ami Harbin, Christine Koggel, and Jennifer Llewellyn. Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics, 2022: 18 (1).
Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches and Applications. Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics. Guest-edited by Ami Harbin, Christine Koggel, and Jennifer Llewellyn. Volume 18, Issue 1, 2022.
Annie Larivée
Forthcoming. “What Socrates Learned from Parmenides. Part 1. Parmenides’ Gymnasia and Socrates’ Intellectual Virtues,” in Eleatic Ontology: Origin and Reception. Anais de Filosofia Classica, vol. 1 (d) of The EON Project: Eleatic Ontology in Plato. A. Lefka & C. Luchetti (eds). Invited chapter.
Forthcoming. “What Socrates Learned from Parmenides. Part 2. Hypothesis, Antilogy, and Philosophical Self-Defense in the Phaedo.” in Eleatic Ontology: Origin and Reception. Anais de Filosofia Classica, vol. 1 (d) of The EON Project: Eleatic Ontology in Plato. A. Lefka & C. Luchetti (eds). Invited chapter.
Forthcoming. “Ancient ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life’ Examined. Clearing up the Confusion between ‘Way of Life’ and ‘Art of Life’.” Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments, M. Faustino & H. Telo (eds.), ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life: Texts and Studies’ series, Leiden, Brill. Invited chapter
Forthcoming. “Platonicienne chez les bouddhistes. Contrastes entre deux traditions philosophiques du point de vue de la pratique,” Identité et la philosophie du sujet dans deux traditions philosophiques : Ontologies occidentales et bouddhiques à la lumière des enjeux éthiques, G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds.), Paris, Hermann. Invited chapter.
Forthcoming. “Parmenides’ gymnopaedia. The role of Eleatic dialectics in Socrates’ philosophical education” in Eleatic Ontology: Origin and Reception. Anais de Filosofia Classica, vol. 1 (d) of The EON Project: Eleatic Ontology in Plato. A. Lefka & C. Luchetti (eds). Invited chapter.
A French version of above will appear simultaneously in the same collection, online (“La gymnopédie de Parménide. Le rôle de la dialectique éléate dans l’éducation philosophique de Socrate.”) Invited chapter.
Forthcoming. “Platonicienne chez les bouddhistes. Contrastes entre deux traditions philosophiques du point de vue de la pratique,” Identité et la philosophie du sujet dans deux traditions philosophiques: Ontologies occidentales et bouddhiques à la lumière des enjeux éthiques, G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds.), Paris, Hermann. Invited chapter.
2023. Entry on “Gender,” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato (2nd edition), Gerald Press and Mateo Duque (eds.), London, Bloomsbury Press. Invited entry.
2022. “Socrate en devenir. Le développement du jeune Socrate dans le Phédon comme clé herméneutique du Parménide,” Selected Papers of the XIIth, Symposium Platonicum on Plato’s Parmenides (Paris). L. Brisson, A. Macé, O. Renaud (eds.), Sankt Augustin, Academia Verlag. Peer-reviewed.
2022. “Clearing Up the Confusion Between Art of Life and Way of Life: A Challenge to Hadot’s Main Interpretive Concept.” Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments, M. Faustino & H. Telo (eds.), ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life: Texts and Studies’ series, Leiden, Brill. Invited chapter (in preparation).
Ian Maclean-Evans (former MA Student, current Acting Graduate Program Administrator)
MacLean-Evans, Ian (2023). “External Conditions, Internal Rationality: Spinoza on the Rationality of Suicide.” Journal of Spinoza Studies vol. 1, no. 2.
MacLean-Evans, Ian (2022). Review of Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love, by Michael Strawser. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 30, no. 3.
David Matheson
“Meaning in the Pursuit of Pleasure.” The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, DOI: 10.1017/apa.2021.19 (2022), pp. 1—15.
Myrto Mylopoulos
“Skilled Action and Metacognitive Control” in Advances in Experimental Philosophy, Eds. Paul Henne & Sam Murray, Routledge Press (2023)
“The Proprietary Nature of Agentive Experience” in Consciousness (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy Series), Eds. Joshua Weisberg and David Rosenthal, Wiley Blackwell (2023)
“Motor Qualities” in The Philosophy of David Rosenthal, Ed. Joshua Weisberg, Cambridge University Press (2023)
“Neurobiological Theories of Consciousness” in Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience, eds. Carolyn Dicey-Jennings and Benjamin Young, Routledge Press (2022)
“Oops! I Did it Again: The Psychology of Everyday Action Slips”, Topics in Cognitive Science, 282-294 (2022).
Vida Panitch
The Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Vida Panitch and Elodie Bertrand, eds. (Forthcoming: London, Routledge).
Exploitation, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Christopher Melenovsky, ed. (London: Routledge): 217-226 (2022).
Decommodification as Exploitation, in Exploitation: Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Matt Zwolinsky and Benjamin Fergusson, eds. (forthcoming Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Joshua Shepherd
Bodily skill (forthcoming). Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness, Adrian Alsmith and Matthew Longo (eds.). Routledge.
Problems and mysteries of the many languages of thought, with Eric Mandelbaum, Yarrow Dunham, Roman Feiman, Chaz Firestone, E.J. Green, Daniel W Harris, Melissa M Kibbe, Benedek Kurdi, Myrto Mylopoulos, Joshua Shepherd, Alexis Wellwood, Nicolas Porot, Jake Quilty-Dunn (forthcoming). Cognitive Science
Intentional action and knowledge-centred theories of control, with J. Adam Carter (forthcoming). Philosophical Studies
Conscious cognitive effort and cognitive control (forthcoming). WIREs CognitiveScience.
Non-human moral status: Problems with phenomenal consciousness (2023). AJOB Neuroscience
Agency in educational technology: Interdisciplinary perspectives and implications for learning design, with Garvin Brod, Natalia Kucirkova, Dietsje Jolles, and Inge Mollenar (2023). Educational Psychology Review.
Knowledge, practical knowledge, and intentional action, with J. Adam Carter (2023). Ergo.
Disappearing agents, mental action, rational glue (2022). Mental Action, eds. Michael Brent and Lisa Miracchi. Routledge.
Practical structure and moral skill (2022). Philosophical Quarterly. DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqab047.
Flow and the dynamics of conscious thought (2022). Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s11097-021-09762-x.
Human brain organoids and consciousness, with Takuya Niikawa, Yoshiyuki Hiyashi, and Tsutomu Sawai (2022). Neuroethics 15(5). DOI: 10.1007/s12152-022-09483-1.
Human brain organoids and consciousness, with Takuya Niikawa, Yoshiyuki Hiyashi,
and Tsutomu Sawai (2022). Neuroethics 15(5). DOI: 10.1007/s12152-022-09483-1.
Whole Books Authored or Edited:
Jay Drydyk
Resettlement with People First: Counterfactual Pathways, co-edited with Susanna Price. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, Forthcoming in 2024.
Christine Koggel
Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches, Implications, and Applications. Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics. Guest-edited by Christine Koggel, Ami Harbin, and Jennifer Llewellyn. Volume 18, Issue 1, 2022. (most cited articles ever for this journal)
Vida Panitch
The Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Vida Panitch and Elodie Bertrand, eds. (Forthcoming: London, Routledge). (Forthcoming)
Presented Talks:
Kyla Bruff
Invited lecture: “Schelling’s Presentation of the State in the 1804Würzburger System,” Workshop on Schelling, System der gesammten Philosophie undder Naturphilosophie insbesondere, 1804. Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 12-14, 2023
Invited lecture: “Schelling’s criticism of Jacobi’s thesis that naturalismmust be a fatalism,” Streit um die Freiheit: Der Disput zwischen Jacobi und Schelling1811-12 , Forschungszentrum für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie / Hegel-Archiv,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, July 7, 2023
“The Romantic Roots of Schelling’s Political Philosophy,” Romantic Realisms Panel at the German Studies Association Forty-Seventh Annual Conference, McGill,Montréal, Oct. 5-8, 2023
invited lecture: “Personhood beyond the law: transcending the state, natural hierarchy, and the categorical imperative in Schelling’s political philosophy,” Séminaire de Recherche du Centre de Philosophie du Droit, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (June 22, 2022).
conference presentation: “Envisioning a Different Future: Schelling and the Frankfurt School,” North American Schelling Society Seventh Annual Conference, York University and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (May 26, 2022).
“The Shifting Concept of the State in Schelling’s Political Philosophy,” XI. Freiburger Graduiertensymposium: Die Klassische deutsche Philosophie und ihre Folgen (online), February 26, 2022.
Gabriele Contessa
‘An Infrastructural Approach to Public Trust in Science’, PERITIA Conference: RethinkingExpertise, Trust, and Policy, University College Dublin, Dublin, March 2023.
‘The Collectivistic Approach to Public Trust in Science and Our Dysfunctional Socio-EpistemicInfrastructure’, SciBeh Virtual Workshop: Collectively Intelligent Science Communication,Online, March 2023.
‘Public Trust in Science and Our Socio-Epistemic Infrastructure’ Political Epistemology NetworkAnnual Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, December 2022.
‘Public Trust in Science and Our Socio-Epistemic Infrastructure’ Philosophy, Politics, andEconomics Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 2022
Gordon Davis
“Reflections on Ninian Smart’s comparative methodology” (due to be presented at the Twelfth East-West Philosophers Conference, University of Hawaii)
“Virtue and Wisdom in the ninth chapter of Santideva’s Bodhicaryavatara” (due to be presented at SACP 2022-23)
“Western and Non-Western Sources of Moral Consequentialism: whether and how to honour pioneers and praecursors”, presented to the Department of Philosophy (colloquium), University of Ottawa, 18/03/22
Jay Drydyk
Epistemic Injustice and Oppression: Three Hypotheses. Human Development and Capabilities Association 2022 Conference, Antwerp, September 20, 2022.
Melissa Frankel
“The principle of motion: Berkeley on motion, minds, and action,” at “De Motu: Text, Context and Perspectives,” Université d’Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence (October) (2022)
Christine Koggel
“Feminist Relational Theory: Perspectives on Hermeneutical Injustice” for the Panel, Relational Theory: Feminist Perspectives and Applications, at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), at Oakland University (Rochester, MI), October 28-30, 2022
“Gender Concepts, Capabilities, and Hermeneutical Injustice” for the Panel, Capability and Oppression: The Role of Epistemic Injustice, at the Human Development and Capabilities Association Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, September 19-22, 2022
“Relational Theory: Insights into Oppression in Colonial/Settler Contexts” for the Panel, Relationships: Insights into Issues of Colonialism in Settler Nations, at the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA), Medellin, Columbia, July 2022 (conference postponed from 2020, in-person and virtual July 13-15, 2022)
Annie Larivée
2022. “Interdits: la recette de Platon. Sexualité kata phusin et construction du tabou au livre VIII des Lois,” Séminaire Platonicien, L. Brisson, P. Caye (organisers). École Normale Supérieure, Paris
David Matheson
“Perfectonism about a Meaningful Life.” To be presented at the First International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, Tohoku University, Japan, June 2023
“A Naturalist’s Perspective on Meaning in Religious Pursuits.” Fourth International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2022
Myrto Mylopoulos
“Motor Control as Productive Reasoning”, Workshop on the Architecture of Skilled Action, Barcelona, Spain (April, 2022)
Vida Panitch
Gender, Health, and Basic Income, The Health Divided: Basic Income and Health Equity, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, May 23, 2023
Philosophical Anti-Commodification Theory: Corruption, Inequality, and Justice, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, May 18, 2023
Decommodification as Exploitation, Wharton Business Ethics Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Dec 2, 2022
Decommodification as Exploitation, Keynote Address, University of Toronto Graduate Student Conference, University of Toronto, November 3, 2022
Philosophical Anti-commodification Theory: Corruption, Inequality, Justice, Contested Markets: Theories and Controversies, Sorbonne University, June 3, 2022
Joshua Shepherd
Improv and cognitive control, Cognitive Science group, City University of New York, NYC, March 2022
Philosophy at the improv, Workshop on Agency in the Mountains, Brighton, UT, March 2022
Re-orienting the sense of agency, Plenary Symposium at the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Milan, July 2022
Practical reasoning and cognitive feelings, Symposium on Skill and Know-How, SOPhiA
2022, Salzburg, Austria, September 2022
Capacity-based approach to functions of consciousness, Functions of Consciousness
workshop, London School of Economics, September 2022
Improv and cognitive control, Cognitive Science group, City University of New York,
NYC, March 2022