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Cheshire Calhoun

Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University

Cheshire Calhoun works in the philosophical subdisciplines of normative ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, feminist philosophy, and gay and lesbian philosophy. Her most recent books are a collection of previously published essays titled Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting it Right and Practicing Morality with Others(OUP), and a newer set of essays titled Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living (OUP). She is also the author of Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet (OUP), the editor of Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers (OUP), and the co-editor with Robert C. Solomon of What is an Emotion: Classic Readings in Philosophical Psychology (OUP). She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science in 2020.


Scott Soames

Scott Soames

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California

Scott Soames specializes in the philosophy of language, the history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of law. He has published extensively on truth, reference, meaning, the relationship between semantics and pragmatics, and the nature of syntactic and semantic theories of natural languages. Specific topics of his scholarly interest include names, natural kind terms, descriptions, pronominal anaphora, propositions and propositional attitudes, vagueness, presupposition, partially defined predicates, the so-called rule following paradox, the indeterminacy of translation, and the use of the science and philosophy of language to illuminate the content of legal texts.

Kai von Fintel

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kai von Fintel serves as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst under the supervision of Angelika Kratzer. His research interests are in the intersections of semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language.

Kit Wellman

​Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis

​Professor Wellman works in ethics, specializing in political and legal philosophy. He serves as chair of the education department and is dean of academic planning for Arts & Sciences.