Jennifer Saul
Jenny is CEPPA Professorial Fellow from and Waterloo Chair in Social and Political Philosophy of Language, at the University of Waterloo. Her primary interests are in Philosophy of Language, Feminism, Philosophy of Race, and Philosophy of Psychology. In recent years, much of her work has been on deception and racism in political speech, a topic which has kept her extremely busy recently. Her book Dogwhistles and Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood has recently been published by Oxford University Press. She has also done a great deal of work attempting to diversify philosophy. She has supervised students working on the metaphysics of gender, feminist ethics, objectification, feminist philosophy of science, pragmatics, feminist philosophy of language, deception, bullshit, implicit bias, sexual ethics, and reference.
Stephen Gardiner
Stephen M. Gardiner is a CEPPA Professorial Fellow and also Professor of Philosophy, Ben Rabinowitz Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment, and Director of the Program on Ethics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He specializes in political philosophy and ethical theory, with an emphasis on intergenerational justice and global environmental issues. He is currently working on projects related to climate change, solar geoengineering, and human expansion into outer space. Steve is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (Oxford, 2011) which was recently described as “the greatest classic of climate ethics” (Malm and Carton 2024). He is also the co-author of Dialogues on Climate Justice (Routledge, 2023) and Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016). His edited books include The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (Oxford, 2025), The Ethics of “Geoengineering” the Global Climate (Routledge, 2021), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford, 2016), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010) and Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005). Steve is also the author of over fifty articles and book chapters. He has published in top journals in philosophy (e.g., Ethics, Ethics & International Affairs, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs) and in specialist journals in environmental ethics and policy (e.g., Climatic Change, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, and Ethics, Policy & the Environment). In 2021, he presented the Academy Lecture for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Alan Saunders Lecture in Public Ethics at the Australasian Association for Philosophy, which was broadcast nationally by Australian Public Radio.