Faculty Fellow
rowan.mellor@northwestern.edu
Rowan Mellor completed his PhD at University College London in 2021. From 2021-2023, he was a Leverhulme postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Rowan’s main research interests are in ethics and political philosophy. His current project focuses on the idea of joint obligation. Specifically, he thinks that it can be true that we jointly ought to do something, even if each of us ought not to do our part.
Faculty Fellow
yvonne.tam@northwestern.edu
Yvonne Tam works in moral theory and its history. She specializes in Kant’s practical philosophy, with a focus on his moral psychology and phenomenology. Her current project develops a Kantian basis for a moral conception of proper self-love and articulates its deep ties to friendship, solidarity, and moral agency. She recently received her PhD from the University of California Riverside, where she also taught courses in feminist philosophy, as well as political and social philosophy.
Visiting Professor, Brady Scholars Program
Professor Anthony Laden received his PhD from Harvard University in 1996 and has been teaching at the University of Illinois ever since. Since 2015, he has also been the Associate Director of the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work spans ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of education with a little bit of social epistemology thrown in. He was written on democracy, civility, the activity of reasoning together, liberalism, game theory, the politics of identity, the role trust plays in higher education, and probably too many articles on the philosophy of John Rawls. He is the author of three books, most recently Networks of Trust: The Social Costs of College and What We can Do About Them (Chicago, 2024).
