The media, our colleagues at Rice, and interested Rice students are all invited to reach out to us if you need to consult with an expert. Below we outline some of the topics on which we can offer regionally distinguished or internationally-distinguished (marked with a star, ★) expertise. This list is not exhaustive, but it does hit most of the highlights. In any case we welcome all questions meant for philosophers. If we can’t help, we might know someone who can.
Morality, Ethics, and Politics
★ blame and responsibility (including excuses, nonculpable ignorance, praise)
Professor Tim Schroeder
Professor George Sher
★ equality (including its importance, limitations as a moral principle, role in politics)
Professor George Sher
ethical and moral theory (including right and wrong, better and worse actions, grey areas, dilemmas)
Professor George Sher
free will (including the neuroscience of, and physics)
Professor Tim Schroeder
★ motives (including kindness, indifference, malice, trying to do the right thing)
Professor Tim Schroeder
★ political correctness (including nasty thoughts, outward expression, slurs)
Professor George Sher
★ taxation (including redistribution, baseline welfare, inequality, rewarding good choices)
Professor George Sher
value (including objective goodness, subjective goodness, and emotion, and consciousness)
Professor Uriah Kriegel
virtue and vice (including attribution of, specific virtues and vices, relation to feelings, beliefs, actions)
Professor Tim Schroeder
well-being (including welfare, being badly off, objective and subjective ideas of)
Professor George Sher
ethics of abortion
Amy Berg
★ ethical and moral theory, well-being, and effective altruism
Amy Berg
The Mind, Consciousness, Mental Disorder
★ addiction (including blaming addicts, behavioral additions, neuroscience of)
Professor Tim Schroeder
★ consciousness (including materialism, its scientific study, self-awareness, the senses, thought)
Professor Uriah Kriegel
Professor Tim Schroeder
Professor Charles Siewert
★ desires (including dopamine's role, neuroscience of, unconscious)
Professor Tim Schroeder
emotions (including psychology of, neuroscience of, morality, and appropriate)
Professor Tim Schroeder
mental disorder (including mood disorders, Tourette's Syndrome, responsibility and neuroscience of antipsychiatry)
Professor Tim Schroeder
neuroscience (including its significance for human life and morality, its interpretation, remaining weaknesses)
Professor Tim Schroeder
pain (including its neuroscience, its badness, suffering, displeasure)
Professor Tim Schroeder
Other Philosophical Topics
art (including what is art, the value of art, the nature of fiction, music)
Professor Tim Schroeder