Lecturers

Sara Uckelman: I am an Associate Professor of logic and philosophy of language and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University by day and a writer of speculative fiction by night. I have a number of academic research interests. In logic, my focus is in the realm of formal modeling and interactive logic. My work brings togther tools and techniques from modern logic and artificial intelligence to help explore and understand practices of reasoning and argumentation in historical contexts. My personal research is primarily focused on developments in medieval Western Europe, particularly in medieval theories of obligationes, but I am also interested in the development of logic within the epistemological and debate traditions in Buddhist India and Tibet. In philosophy of language, I am interested in questions of meaningfulness that go beyond the standard issues of the meaning of natural languages, especially the unique issues of meaning that fiction, and especially fanfiction, pose.

Barbara Vetter is Professor of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and Vice-President of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP). After completing the BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford, she taught at Humboldt-Universität Berlin and the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg before moving to FU Berlin. Her research is primarily in contemporary metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language, focusing on issues concerning abilities, powers, and possibilities. With Dominik Perler, she is co-director of the research centre “Human Abilities”. She is the author of the monograph Potentiality: From Dispositions to Modality (OUP, 2015) and various articles in journals such as Mind, Analysis, Philosophical Studies, and Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.

Jingyi Wu: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. I primarily work on social epistemology and philosophy of physics. I also have interests in general philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, Asian/American philosophy, and mathematical physics.