Philosophy
Master of Arts
Department of Philosophy
The Department of Philosophy is an active, mid-sized department that has broad interests in philosophical issues within the Anglo-American analytic tradition. Members of the department are engaged in research in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, aesthetics, ethics, social/political philosophy, logic, Indian philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| 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 | Philosophy of sciences and technologies; Environmental philosophy; Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability, Confirmation, 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; Creative Writing |
| 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 |
