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Department Chair
Robert Crease

History and philosophy of science,
philosophy of the arts, modern philosophy

Jeff Edwards

History of modern philosophy, Kant

Director of Graduate Studies
Harvey Cormier

American philosophy, William James and pragmatism,
philosophy and culture

David Allison

Recent French thought, existentialism, Nietzsche

Edward S. Casey

Phenomenology, philosophical psychology, aesthetics,
theory of psychoanalysis

Megan Craig

Phenomenology and painting

David Dilworth

History of philosophy, comparative philosophy, systematic metaphysics

Patrick Grim

Computational modeling, philosophical logic, and ethics

Dick Howard

American, German, and French Political Theory

Don Ihde

Philosophy of science and technology,
hermeneutics, and phenomenology

Eva Feder Kittay

Philosophy of language, feminism, ethics

Allegra de Laurentiis

Nineteenth-century philosophy, especially Hegel,
and ancient philosophy, especially Aristotle

Peter Manchester

Ancient and Hellenistic philosophy, phenomenology, philosophical theology

Gary Mar

Logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language,
metaphysics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science

Eduardo Mendieta

Global ethics, discourse ethics, critical theory (Apel and Habermas), theories of modernity, postmodernity, postcolonialism, and Latin American philosophy

Clyde Lee Miller

Ancient and medieval philosophy, Nicholas of Cusa, ethics

Rita Nolan

Philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science,
social epistemology, Wittgenstein

Mary Rawlinson

Joint Appointment with Comparative Literature
Recent French philosophy, philosophy of literature, aesthetics, French feminism, nineteenth-century philosophy, philosophy of medicine

Anne O'Byrne

20th century and contemporary European philosophy

Hugh J. Silverman

Joint Appointment with Comparative Literature
Contemporary European thought, cultural/literary/art/film/ aesthetic theory,
Continental philosophy (hermeneutics, semiotics, deconstruction, and the postmodern)

Lorenzo Simpson

Hermeneutics, critical theory, philosophy of the social sciences,
philosophy of science and technology, philosophy and race

Marshall Spector

Philosophy of science and technology, environmental issues

Donn Welton

Phenomenology, epistemology, philosophical psychology,
theory of the person, Husserl studies

Affiliated Faculty

Robert Harvey

Affiliated Faculty
Professor of Comparative Literature
French Thought

Lisa Diedrich

Affiliated Faculty, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Program
Feminist cultural studies of health and illness, disability studies, transnational feminisms, feminist theories and methodologies

Donald Kuspit

Joint Appointment with the Art Department
Aesthetics and art theory

Massimo Pigliucci

Affiliated Faculty
Professor of Ecology and Evolution
Philosophy of Natural Science, Philosophy of Evolution

Peter Williams

Joint Appointment with the Department of Preventive Medicine
Philosophy of law, philosophy of medicine, ethics

^*Recent visitors who have taught full-credit, intensive seminars in the department of philosophy include Manfred Baum, Claus Held, Claude Lefort, Dominique Janicaud, Jacques Taminiaux, Bernard Waldenfels, Burkhard Tuschling, Eugene Gendlin, Bruce Wilshire and Jean-Francois Lyotard.

Rotating Stars Program

Through funds provided by the Office of the President, the department has established the Rotating Stars Program, under which one of three 'stars' in the discipline visits the department each year to offer an intensive, full-credit seminar. Previous visitors:

Noam Chomsky

Regular Visiting Faculty
Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Political Dissidence, Democracy and Sovereignty, Global Political Development.

Angela Y. Davis

Regular Visiting Faculty
Feminism, African American studies, critical theory, popular music culture and social consciousness, philosophy of punishment (women's jails and prisons)

Jacques Derrida

Post-structuralism, post-modernism, deconstruction, literary theory

Department Chair Robert Crease