Tereza Křepelová
I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Science at Masaryk University where I´ve earned my BA and MA degree. I've also been a visiting researcher at King´s College London. My research concerns methods in political philosophy, moral epistemology, philosophy of science and study of the discipline of political philosophy.
My dissertation focuses on the current relationship between political philosophy and political science and its impacts on the research of politics. I aim to explore the sources of disjunction between both disciplines and critically examine the growing gap between them resulting in the accumulation of socially irrelevant researches, both empirical and philosophical. In this regard, I´ve conducted a global expert survey among political philosophers and political scientists focused on cooperation and cross-fertilization of both disciplines and position of political philosophy within political science. In my dissertation, I am advocating the idea of empirically informed political philosophy which should serve as theoretical guidance and epistemological conscience of political science.
Jeffrey Carroll
I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Virginia. I earned my MA in Philosophy at Georgia State University and my BA in Philosophy and Political Science at The Ohio State University (which is where my sports allegiances lie).
My research focuses predominantly on methodological issues concerning how we theorize about justice. The particular area of political methodology I am interested in is often called the ideal theory versus nonideal theory debate. In contrast to many static versions of ideal theory, I defend a dynamic ideal theory that is necessitated not by the metaphysics of justice, but by epistemological limitations of human theorists. Adopting a dynamic methodology has important implications for the political and economic institutions of ideal theory.
Caitlin Fitchett
I'm a PhD candidate in the Harvard University philosophy department. I hold a BA(Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Otago in New Zealand. I have research interests in the philosophy of action and moral philosophy. My dissertation is about individual practical deliberation in group action cases. I argue that we face the quintessential question of practical deliberation—What should I do?—in situations that are not within our power to resolve, and that we're morally answerable and accountable for the intentional stance that we take as an answer to this question.
Jakob Hinze
I am a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and a postgraduate member of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs (CEPPA). I work in the field of democratic theory. My primary research focus is on epistemic justifications for democracy and how they bear on the question of who should have the right to vote. In particular, I’m interested in whether the electoral exclusion of children is justifiable. In my dissertation, I develop both procedural and instrumental arguments for democracy without a minimum voting age.
Adam Lovett
I'm a PhD student at New York University. Before arriving in New York, I completed the B.Phil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and before that I completed a B.A in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford. My dissertation is about how American democracy falls short of democratic ideals and why these shortfalls matter. In my telling, American democracy achieves little of what makes democracy valuable. And that transforms the rights and duties of American citizens: it undermines their obligation to obey the law and makes coercive enforcement of those laws more difficult to defend. I've also got many research interests outside my dissertation topic. In ethics, I've done work on what we its fitting to care about. In metaphysics, I've done work on the logic of ground. A lot of this work is on my website. Check it out here
Regina Surber
I am a PhD candidate at the Center for Ethics at University of Zurich, from which I also earned my BA and MA in Political Science, Philosophy, and Law. After graduation, I worked for the ICT4Peace foundation as a scientific advisor on ethical and international political questions raised by emerging technologies .My doctoral research is centered around the question 'Why do soldiers, exactly, have to die in war'? I have a great interest in grounding the more anodyne philosophical theories about war and peace - my project will focus on Kant's theory of perpetual peace through law - in real human experiences of war and military training.
