Eno Agolli
Graduate student, Philosophy, Rutgers University

Eno Agolli's primary interests are in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic and formal semantics. His research in language focusses on reference, specifically the semantics of proper names, pronouns, and anaphora. His research in logic focusses unrestricted quantification and logical nihilism. He dabbles sometimes in the philosophy of Wittgenstein, especially his theory of nonsense, especially as it pertains to the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Constant Bonard
PhD candidate and teaching assistant, philosophy, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva (Switzerland) and Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp (Belgium)

Constant researches and teaches in the fields of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. His PhD is on the notion of affective meaning, how it is to be distinguished from that of descriptive meaning, and what is its role in human communication, verbal and non-verbal. Beside his PhD, he conducts research in music psycholog

Robyn Carston
Professor, Linguistics , University College London

Professor Carston’s main research interests are in pragmatics, semantics, relevance theory, metaphor, and word meaning. Her approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on cognitive-scientific approaches to language and communication and on the philosophy of language.  She has published a monograph Thoughts and Utterances: the Pragmatics of Explicit Communication (Blackwell, 2002) and is preparing a collection of her papers to be published under the title Pragmatics and Communicated Content, Oxford University Press.

Drew Johnson
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo

Drew Johnson is a post-doctoral fellow at University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. Drew's primary research interests right now are in metaethics and epistemology. His main focus is on exploring a neo-expressivist account of the nature of ethical thought and discourse, in a way that ultimately allows for the possibility of ethical knowledge.

Nadja-Mira Yolcu
PhD candidate, Philosophy, University of Mannheim (Germany)

Nadja works primarily in philosophy of language (especially pragmatics) and philosophy of mind. She also has interests in epistemology. Her dissertation project aims to extend psychological expressivism to disavowals.

Richard Moore
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick

Richard Moore is interested in the cognitive foundations of language and communication, and in their development in ontogeny, phylogeny, and in human evolution. He has published on the nature of communicative intentions, and on the development of language and other uniquely human forms of cognition; as well as empirical studies of the communication of infants, dogs, and non-human great apes. His UKRI-funded Communicative Mind research group is based at the University of Warwick.

Kate Nolfi
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of Vermont

Kate works primarily in epistemology, although her research touches on related topics in metaethics, the philosophy of action, and the philosophy of mind.  Kate is particularly interested in meta-normative questions in epistemology.  Her dissertation, which develops and defends a novel account of the authority and force of epistemic norms, is titled "Understanding Epistemic Normativity."  Before joining the Philosophy Department at UNC as a graduate student in 2008, Kate earned her B.A. at Williams College, where she double-majored in Philosophy and Mathematics.

Alison Ann Springle
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami

Alison works on topics in and at the intersections between philosophy of mind, perception, action, science, epistemology and the ethics of knowing.  She's especially interested in the nature of representations, from the most basic kinds of mental representations to scientific representations and art works, and she's driven to understand mental representations in a way that does justice to both continuities and discontinuities between the minds of humans and other animals. Her work draws inspiration from Aristotle, Kant, American Pragmatists (especially Dewey), JJ Gibson, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Ruth Millikan among others.  She's developing a systematic account of intentionality that centers on the concept of organisms' needs for flourishing (very broadly construed). She argues for three fairly radical theses: (1) That actions are developmental teleological processes that function to satisfy, and are type-individuated partly in terms of, needs for flourishing; (2) That mental representations are the "acorns" of such developmental processes; and (3) That mental representations belong to a hitherto neglected "de agendo" species of representation; similar to what Millikan calls "pushmi-pullyus" or (borrowing from Gibson) "affordance representations." Alison puts these views to work addressing problems in the philosophy of mind, action, perception, science, epistemology, and the ethics of knowing. Some of her work on the ethics of knowing examines connections between conceptions of the proper functioning of mnemonic capacities and certain forms of epistemic injustice that impact trauma survivors. '

Before coming to the University of Miami, Alison was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma.

Kate Hazel Stanton
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh

Kate studies the conversational mechanisms underlying contextually specific meaning modification.  Her work has focused on conventionally interpreted co-speech gesture, semi-idiomatic constructions and prosodic markers that can locally induce meaning enrichment. Recently she has also been working on the ways in which affective information is integrated into semantic content.