D.Phil., Oxford University, 2002
Ancient philosophy, especially Platonic and Aristotelian ethical theory, Presocratic naturalism, Epicurean and Stoic cosmology, Darwin
Lawrence Blum, Professor, and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974
Moral philosophy, race theory, moral psychology and development, multiculturalism
Yumiko Inukai, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Early modern philosophy (esp. Hume), William James, nature and phenomenology of the self
Arthur Millman, Associate Professor, Chair
Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1974
Philosophy of science, Darwin, critical thinking, environmental ethics, research ethics
Mickaella Perina, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Toulouse, II, 1996
Construction of identity, group rights, the rule of law in liberal democracies
Jennifer Radden, Professor
D.Phil., Oxford University. 1976
Philosophy of psychiatry and psychology, metaphysics, philosophical foundations of public policy
Lisa Rivera, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2001
Ethics, political philosophy, global ethics, feminist theory
Robert Shope, Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966
Epistemology, philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis
Janet Farrell Smith, Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1976
Bioethics, social and political philosophy
Lynne Tirrell, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1986
Philosophy of language, literary theory, feminist philosophy, philosophy of art, genocide
Ajume Wingo, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1997
Comparative philosophy, African philosophy, social political philosophy, aesthetics
Senior Lecturers
Roma Farion
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1988
Analytic metaphysics, aesthetics
David Flesche
Ph.D., Boston College, 1986
German idealism, phenomenology, Gadamer’s hermeneutics
Larry Kaye
Ph.D., MIT, 1990
Philosophy of mind/cognitive science, Kant, epistemology (esp. perception), philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of science
Nelson Lande
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1977
Medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy, history of moral Philosophy, history of political philosophy, metaphysics (Spinoza & Leibniz)
Robert Rosenfeld
Ph.D., Boston University, 1989
Bioethics and problems of moral status
Mitchell Silver
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1980
Social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethical theory of health care ethics
Lecturers
Jack Bayne
ABD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Kantian ethics, German idealism, Marxism, existentialism, phenomenology
Jonathan K. Cooper-Weile
Ph.D., Boston University, 1987
Kerry Dugan
ABD, Tulane University, 1974
Meredith Gunning
J. Theodore Klein
Ph. D., Boston University, 1969
Ethics of caring, privilege and oppression
Michael Meyer
Gary Zabel
Ph.D., Boston University, 1987
Social and political philosophy, phenomenology, aesthetics