School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy

Faculty

Faculty

Core Faculty

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Patrick Forber

Professor and Interim Department Chair of Philosophy
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability
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Jody Azzouni

Professor
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science
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Nancy Bauer

Professor
Feminism, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Philosophical Method, Philosophy and Film
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Avner Baz

Professor
Ethics, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Kant, Wittgenstein, Ordinary Language Philosophy
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David Denby

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Ethics
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Jamee Elder

Assistant Professor
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Brian Epstein

Associate Professor
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Language
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Erin Kelly

Fletcher Professor of Philosophy
Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
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Monica Kim

Senior Lecturer
Ethics, Chinese philosophy
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Lionel McPherson

Associate Professor
Ethics, Political and Social philosophy
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Dilip Ninan

Associate Professor
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
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Christiana Olfert

Associate Professor
Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics
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Susan Russinoff

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Philosophy of Language, Logic, Philosophy of Logic, History of Logic, Critical Thinking Pedagogy
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Sigrun Svavarsdottir

Associate Professor
Moral philosophy, practical rationality, moral psychology, action theory
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Stephen White

Professor
Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Meta-ethics, Aesthetics

Affiliate Faculty

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Olaf Dammann

Professor
My research interest in epidemiology is the etiology of perinatal retina and brain disease. I am particularly interested in a scenario that postulates a major role for intrauterine infection as an initiator of maternal and fetal inflammatory responses that, in turn, contribute to the development of brain white matter damage and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) among preterm newborns. I have been R21 and R01-funded by the National Eye Institute to study inflammatory biomarkers and ROP. In philosophy, my area of interest is causal inference and etiological explanation. My two books in this field are "Causation in Population Health Informatics and Data Science" (Springer, 2019), co-authored with philosopher Ben Smart, and "Etiological Explanations" (CRC Press, 2020).
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Peter Levine

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs
Political Theory, American Politics, Civic Studies
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Riccardo Strobino

Associate Professor
Medieval Latin Philosophy; Classical Arabic Philosophy; History and Philosophy of Logic; Aristotle; Avicenna

Part-time Faculty

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Lydia Amir

Lecturer
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Ian Blaustein

Lecturer
Ethics, the History of Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Political Philosophy
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Mario DeCaro

Visiting Professor
Moral philosophy; philosophy of mind; philosophy of film; the perspectives of philosophical naturalism; the free-will controversy; theory of action; metaphysics; philosophy and cognitive science; history of Renaissance and early modern philosophy
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Michelle Dyke

Lecturer
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Seena Eftekhari

Lecturer
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Jeffrey McConnell

Lecturer
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral Theory
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Merve Tapinc

Lecturer
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Valentina Urbanek

Lecturer
Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy

Emeriti Faculty

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Ray Jackendoff

Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus