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Philosophy Faculty

Faculty | Master's | Doctoral | Courses


The Department of Philosophy offers graduate work leading to the M.A. and the Ph.D.


Graduate Faculty

Phillip Bricker, Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, A.B., California at Berkeley, 1975; M.A., Princeton, 1978; Ph.D., 1983.

Fred Feldman, Professor and Graduate Program Director,  B.A., Bard, 1963; M.A., Harpur, 1965; Ph.D., Brown, 1968.

Lynne Rudder Baker, Professor, B.A., Vanderbilt, 1966; M.A., 1971; Ph.D., 1972.

Vere C. Chappell, Professor,  B.A., Yale, 1951; M.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1958.

Ann Ferguson, Professor,  B.A., Swarthmore, 1959; M.A., Brown, 1961; Ph.D., 1965.

Gary Hardegree, Associate Professor, B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1972; Ph.D., Indiana, 1976.

Kevin Klement, Assistant Professor, B.A., Minnesota, 1995; Ph.D., Iowa, 2000.

Hilary Kornblith, Professor, B.A., New York at Buffalo, 1975; M.A., Cornell, 1978; Ph.D., 1980.

Gareth Matthews, Professor,  A.B., Franklin, 1951; A.M., Harvard, 1952; Ph.D., 1961.

Eileen O'Neill, Professor, B.A., Barnard College, 1975; M.A., Princeton, 1978; Ph.D., 1983.

Casey Perin, Assistant Professor, B.A., Princeton, 1991; M.A., Stanford, 1995; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2001.

Jonathan Schaffer, Associate Professor, B.A., Kenyon, 1993; Ph.D., Rutgers, 1999.


Faculty Emeriti

Bruce Aune, Professor Emeritus (2001).

Leonard H. Ehrlich, Professor Emeritus (1991).

Edmund I. Gettier III, Professor Emeritus (2001.

Barbara Hall Partee, Professor Emerita (2004).

John G. Robison, Professor Emeritus (2001).

Robert C. Sleigh, Jr., Professor Emeritus (2000).