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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
