Philosophy
Philosophy offers courses in most major areas of the discipline, including epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, political and social philosophy, philosophy of art, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mathematics, and history of philosophy.
Faculty Members
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Amijee, Fatema | Metaphysics, Modern Philosophy, feminist philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy |
| Anderson, Scott Allen | intersection of ethics and social and political philosophy, largely focused on how to use and regulate power, coercion, and social norms; action theory and moral psychology, privacy, and problems related to the intensification of technology and information. |
| Aydede, Murat | Philosophy of mind |
| Ballarin, Roberta | Philosophical logic, nature and sources of necessity |
| Bartha, Paul | logic; probability; analogical reasoning, Philosophy of science, decision theory |
| Beatty, John Henry | Socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology |
| Bedke, Matthew | Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Foundations of Ethics, Social Organization and Political Systems, Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice, metaethics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, epistemology |
| Berryman, Sylvia | Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Ancient Greek natural philosophy, Aristotle's ethics, ethics and global poverty |
| Brownlee, Kimberley | Applied Ethics, Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice, Ethics and Health, Human Rights and Liberties, Collective Rights, Social Aspects of Aging, Loneliness, Social Human Rights, Belonging, Virtues and Vices, Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection, Philosophy of Punishment |
| Griffin, Michael | Greek philosophy, Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Proclus, Neoplatonism, Ancient logic |
| Ichikawa, Jonathan | epistemology; philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophical methodology (including experimental philosophy), cognitive science, and metaphysics, especially but not |
| Jenkins, Carrie | Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Romantic love, epistemology, Language and meaning, Philosophy of love, Creative scholarship, Critical approaches to normalcy, Art and inclusion, Interdisciplinarity and liminality |
| Lopes, Dominic | Aesthetics |
| Margolis, Eric | Philosophy of mind, cognitive sciences, developmental origins of human conceptual system, relationship between language and thought, exaplanation of distinctively human cognition |
| Mole, Christopher | Philosophical issues that arise from the attempt to understand the mind scientifically, aesthetics of literature |
| Prueitt, Catherine | Epistemology and Methodology, Asian Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of mind/cognitive science |
| Richardson, Alan Walter | History of philosophy of science in early twentieth century |
| Russell, Joseph Paul | Free will, contemporary compatibilism, optimism-pessimism contrast |
| Schabas, Margaret | Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, History and Philosophy of Economics |
| Simchen, Ori | Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of law |
| Stephens, Christopher | philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, rationality, Why be rational?, scientific philosophy |
| Thompson, Evan | Philosophical Foundations, Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Theories and Philosophies, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Asian Philosophies |
| Wylie, Alison | Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, philosophy of science, philosophy of the social and historial sciences, feminist philosophy, philosophy of archaeology, research ethics (non-medical), science studies |
