Dr. Quill Rebecca Kukla is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
Dr. Kukla’s research interests within practical ethics include the ethical and social complexities of scientific knowledge production and communication, reproductive ethics and the culture of pregnancy and motherhood, public health ethics, the ethics of health communication, research ethics, methodological issues in medical research, and the social epistemology of medicine. Much of their research bridges bioethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
Dr. Leo Townsend is a British Academy Newton Fellow at the University of Reading. His project for this fellowship is on the pragmatics and politics of group speech.
Previously, Dr. Townsend was the principal investigator on a research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted at the University of Vienna. His main research areas are speech act theory, social epistemology, collective intentionality.
Dr. Nat Hansen is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Reading (UK). His primary research interest is in philosophy of language, with an emphasis on contextualism, experimental semantics and pragmatics, the legacy of ordinary language philosophy, and the meaning of color terms.