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College of Arts & Sciences

José Luis Bermúdez

  • Professor of Philosophy and Charles H. Gregory ’64 Chair in Arts and Sciences
Areas of Specialization
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Psychology
  • Rationality
  • Cognitive Science
  • Classical Philosophy
  • particularly Aristotle
Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
  • Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality
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Emily Brady

  • Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
  • Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
  • Environmental Aesthetics & Ethics
  • Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (especially Aesthetics)
Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
  • Value Theory and Applied Ethics
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Nevin Climenhaga

  • Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Epistemology
    • Philosophy of Science
    • Philosophy of Religion
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality
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    Daniel Conway

    • Professor of Philosophy and Thomas F. Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts
    Areas of Specialization
    • Post-Kantian European Philosophy
    • Social & Political Philosophy
    • Aesthetics (especially Literature and Film)
    • Genocide Studies
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Continental Philosophy, Philosophies of the Global South, Value Theory and Applied Ethics
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    Don Deere

    • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Latin American and Latinx Philosophy
    • Decolonial Philosophy
    • 20th Century Continental Philosophy
    • Caribbean Philosophy
    • Social & Political Philosophy
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Continental Philosophy, Philosophies of the Global South
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    Tom Ellis

    • Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Military Ethics
    • Just War Theory
    • Applied Ethics
    • Epistemology
    • Metaphysics
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    Theodore George

    • Professor of Philosophy
    • Presidential Impact Fellow
    Areas of Specialization
    • Hermeneutics
    • Continental European Philosophy since Kant
    • Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
    • Hegel
    • German Idealism and Romanticism
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Continental Philosophy
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    Jared Hanson-Park

    • Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Philosophy of Science (esp. Questions of Scientific Knowledge and Scientific Metaphysics)
    • 20th Century Analytic Philosophy (esp. Bertrand Russell)
    • Epistemology (esp. Questions of Evidence)
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    Ege Selin Islekel

    • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Social and Political Philosophy
    • Feminist Philosophy
    • Philosophy of Race
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Continental Philosophy, Philosophies of the Global South
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    Amir Jaima

    • Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Africana Philosophy
    • Aesthetics
    • Black Male Studies
    • Continental Philosophy
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Continental Philosophy, Philosophies of the Global South
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    David Koepsell

    • Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Digital Identities
    • Digital Selves
    • Legal Philosophy
    • Legal Ontology
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    Jordan Lavender

    • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Medieval Philosophy
    • Early Modern Philosophy
    • Philosophy of Mind
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality
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    Christopher Menzel

    • Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Metaphysics
    • Logic
    • Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality
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    Glen Miller

    • Director of Undergraduate Studies
    • Instructional Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Ethics of Technology
    • Engineering Ethics
    • Science and Technology Studies
    • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Value Theory and Applied Ethics
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    Clare Palmer

    • Professor of Philosophy and the George T. and Gladys H. Abell
    • Professor of Liberal Arts
    Areas of Specialization
    • Environmental Ethics
    • Animal Ethics
    • Climate Ethics
    • Ethics and Emerging Technologies
    • Ethical Theory
    • Environmental Studies (humanities and social sciences approaches)
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Value Theory and Applied Ethics
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    Gregory Pappas

    • Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Latin American Philosophy
    • American Pragmatism
    • Socio-Political Theory
    • Ethical Theory
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Philosophies of the Global South
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    Martin Peterson

    • Professor of Philosophy and the Sue and Harry Bovay Chair of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering
    Areas of Specialization
    • Ethics of Technology
    • Normative Ethics (Consequentialism)
    • Decision Theory
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality, Value Theory and Applied Ethics
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    Linda Radzik

    • Associate Department Head
    • Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Ethical Theory
    • Philosophy of Law
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Value Theory and Applied Ethics
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    Dwayne Raymond

    • Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
    • Instructional Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Aristotle
    • Ancient Logic
    • History of Logic
    • Philosophy of Mind
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    Erich Riesen

    • Post-Doctoral Fellow of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Ethics & Applied Ethics
    • AI Ethics
    • Bioethics
    • Military Ethics
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    Omar Rivera

    • Director of Graduate Studies
    • Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Latin American Philosophy (Pre-Columbian to 21st Century
    • including Latin American Marxisms)
    • Latinx Philosophy
    • 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Phenomenology and Hermeneutics)
    • Decolonial Philosophy (Epistemology
    • Race Theory
    • Feminist Theory)
    • Aesthetics (including Latin American and Latinx Art)
    • Ancient Greek Philosophy
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Continental Philosophy, Philosophies of the Global South
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    Roger Sansom

    • Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Philosophy of Science
    • Philosophy of Biology
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    Kristi Sweet

    • Department Head
    • Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Kant (Practical Philosophy and Aesthetics)
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Continental Philosophy, Value Theory and Applied Ethics
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    Lianghua (Glenn) Zhou

    • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    Areas of Specialization
    • Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
    • Early Modern Philosophy
    • Ancient Chinese Philosophy
    • Early Analytic Philosophy
    • Metaphysics
    • Natural Philosophy
    • Moral Psychology
    Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
    • Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality
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    Alice van't Hoff

    • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
      Areas of Specialization
      • Metaphysics
      • Philosophical Logic
      • Social Philosophy
      Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In
      • Decision Theory, Logic, and Rationality, Value Theory and Applied Ethics
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