Philosophy Faculty

Philosophy Faculty

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Hons BA with high distinction, University of Toronto; MA, University of Toronto; Ph.D in philosophy, University of Southern California

Teaching:

Moral and Political Philosophy, Race and Policy, Epistemology

Research:

Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Race

Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1988; Dissertation: "The Practical Given" (advisor, Kurt Baier; 2nd reader, David Gauthier); M.A. in Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1986; B.A. in Philosophy with honors, University of Notre Dame, 1982

Teaching:

Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Business Ethics

Research:

Normative Ethics, particularly the deontology/consequentialism debate, Metaethics, particularly accounts of the interrelationship among reason, desire, and value, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Morality and Markets

Phone: (909) 607-7140
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; BA, The Ohio State University

Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies

BA; Amherst College

MA, PhD; UCLA

Research:

For more information, see her website at https://www.amykind.com/

Edward S. Gould Professor of Philosophy

University of Chicago, Ph.D., 2001; Princeton University, B.A.,1986-1990

Teaching:

Modern Philosophy; Kant and Post-Kantian European Philosophy,Kant and Post-Kantian European Philosophy

Research:

Kant,Hegel,German Idealism

Phone: (909) 607-6845
Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Michigan, B.A. in Philosophy from Texas Tech University

Teaching:

Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Language

Research:

Epistemology and Metaphysics

Phone: (909) 607-3358
Akshata Murty '02 and Rishi Sunak Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A., University of California at San Diego; B.A., New York University

Phone: (909) 607-8596
Associate Professor of Africana Studies

BA Philosophy, Occidental College; MA Philosophy Boston College; PhD Philosophy Emory University

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Philosophy, Program in Ancient Philosophy, 2004; B.A. Stanford University, Department of Philosophy, 1997

Teaching:

Ancient Philosophy

Research:

Plato's Moral Psychology,Ancient Skepticism

Phone: (909) 621-8842
Professor of Philosophy, Deborah and Kenneth Novack Professor of Ethics and Leadership, and George R. Roberts Fellow

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching:

Ethical Theory, Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics

Research:

Ethical Theory, Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics (esp. bioethics and the ethics of health policy)

Phone: (909) 607-9872
Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of the Faculty for Research

Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A., Carleton College

Research:

Philosophy of Science, ethics, political philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of disability

Phone: (909) 607-3874
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research:

Ph.D.

Phone: (909) 607-6353

Visiting Faculty

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D., Oxford University

 
Teaching:

Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Informal Logic

 
Research:

Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, Metaphysics

 
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

PhD, Boston University; MA, University of British Columbia; BA, Mount Allison University

 
Postdoctoral Fellow/ Visiting Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Pennsylvania; BA Cornell University 

Teaching:

Political and Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Logic

Research:

Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Social Science , Metaphysics 

Emeritus Faculty

Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus

B.A., Whitworth University; M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Teaching:

Philosophy of religion

Research:

Analytic Theology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Christian Thought, History of Philosophy (ancient)

Phone: (909) 607-2827
Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

B.A., Pomona College; M.A. and Ph.D., Yale University

Phone: (509) 996-4585