Faculty
Regular Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Bix Professor |
871 Heller Hall N212 Mondale Hall 612-624-2505 bix@umn.edu |
Legal philosophy, philosophy of language, moral and political philosophy |
| Philip Bold |
805 Heller Hall 612-625-6563 bold0169@umn.edu |
Wittgenstein, philosophy of language, history of analytical philosophy |
| Roy T. Cook Professor |
808 Heller Hall 612-625-8379 cookx432@umn.edu |
Philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, aesthetics of popular art, 17th-century philosophy |
| Carl Elliott Professor |
758 Heller Hall ellio023@umn.edu |
Bioethics and medical humanities |
| Tamara Fakhoury Assistant Professor |
858 Heller Hall 612-625-4072 fakho011@umn.edu |
Ethics, social and political philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, feminist philosophy |
| Jessica Gordon-Roth Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies |
868 Heller Hall 612-625-9549 gordo216@umn.edu |
History of early modern philosophy, feminist philosophy |
| Peter Hanks Professor Department Chair |
845 Heller Hall 612-624-6415 pwhanks@umn.edu |
Philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy |
| Sarah Holtman Professor |
815 Heller Hall 612-626-1764 holtm001@umn.edu |
Ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law |
| Michael Kac Professor |
812 Heller Hall 612-625-1865 kacxx001@umn.edu |
Linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of music |
| Dwight K Lewis, Jr. Assistant Professor |
817 Heller Hall 612-625-6563 lewi1715@umn.edu |
History of early modern philosophy, philosophy of race, and Africana philosophy, with a focus on the philosophy of Anton Willhelm Amo (c.1700-c.1750) |
| Alan Love Professor Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts Director of Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science |
735 Heller Hall 612-625-4510 aclove@umn.edu |
Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, history of biology, epistemology |
| Michelle Mason Bizri Associate Professor |
819 Heller Hall 612-625-9549 mason043@umn.edu |
Ethics, moral psychology, practical reason, aesthetics |
| Michael Bennett McNulty Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies McKnight Land-Grant Professor 2022-2024 |
721 Heller Hall 612-624-5210 mcnu0074@umn.edu |
Kant, history and philosophy of science, history and philosophy of mathematics |
| Catharine (Cat) Saint-Croix Assistant Professor |
864 Heller Hall 612-625-6563 csaintx@umn.edu |
Epistemology; philosophy of language; logic; feminist philosophy |
| David Taylor Associate Professor |
854 Heller Hall 612-625-9304 detaylor@umn.edu |
Philosophy of language, metaphysics, history of analytic philosophy |
| Valerie Tiberius Professor |
873 Heller Hall 612-625-0038 tiberius@umn.edu |
Ethics, moral psychology, well-being and wisdom |
Affiliate Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Debra DeBruin Center for Bioethics Associate Professor Department of Medicine |
504 Boynton Health Service 612-624-9687 debru004@umn.edu |
Bioethics |
| Benjamin McMyler Independent Scholar |
mcmyl002@umn.edu | Epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy |
| Mathias Rothe Associate Professor, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
328G Folwell Hall 612-625-9034 mrothe@umn.edu |
18th-century political philosophy, philosophical and literary presentability of economic practices, Brechtian and contemporary theater |
| William Wimsatt Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago |
751 Heller Halll 612-626-5321 wwim@umn.edu |
Philosophy of biology, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, history of biology |
Faculty Emeriti
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Norman Dahl Professor Emeritus |
dahlx005@umn.edu | Moral philosophy, ancient philosophy |
| Marcia Eaton Professor Emerita |
eaton001@umn.edu | Aesthetics |
| William Hanson Professor Emeritus |
whanson@umn.edu | Logic, philosophy of logic |
| Geoffrey Hellman Professor Emeritus |
hellm001@umn.edu | Philosophy of mathematics and logic, philosophy of natural science, aesthetics |
| Douglas Lewis Professor Emeritus |
lewis002@umn.edu | 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, metaphysics |
| Joseph Owens Professor Emeritus |
owens002@umn.edu |
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics |
| Sandra Peterson Professor Emerita |
peter009@umn.edu | Ancient philosophy, moral philosophy |
| Michael Root Professor Emeritus |
rootx001@umn.edu | Metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of social science |
| Naomi Scheman Professor Emerita |
nschema@umn.edu | Feminist theory, philosophy of mind, theory of criticism |
| John Wallace Professor Emeritus |
walla003@umn.edu | Philosophy of language, political philosophy, philosophy of education |
| Jos Uffink Professor |
jbuffink@umn.edu | Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, history of physics |