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 | Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Philosophy, Department of
Professor Ackerman focuses on philosophy in literature, bioethics, and moral psychology. Her current work addresses philosophical themes in the work of Sir Thomas Malory, as well as the ethics of end-of-life issues,and short story and poetry writing. | | | Nomy Arpaly
Philosophy, Department of
Professor Arpaly's work focuses on ethics, moral psychology, action theory and free will. |  | Jason Brennan
Philosophy, Department of
Jason Brennan's research focuses on moral theory, political philosophy, and metaethics. In particular, he is concerned with developing a liberal theory of civic virtue. Currently, he is developing a theory of ethical voting. |  | Justin Broackes
Philosophy, Department of
I work on the history of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, as well as topics in present-day Metaphysics and the Theory of Perception. | | | David Christensen
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| | | James Dreier
Philosophy, Department of
Professor Dreier's interests include ethics, metaethics, political philosophy, and rationality and decision theory. His current work focuses on expressivism, practical rationality, moral relativism, and infinite utility. | | | Katherine Dunlop
Philosophy, Department of
|  | David Estlund
Philosophy, Department of
David Estlund's areas of expertise include ethics and social/political philosophy, particularly the areas of liberalism, justice, and democracy. | | | Mary Louise Gill
Classics, Department of
Philosophy, Department of
Mary Louise Gill specializes in ancient Greek philosophy with an emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. She is the author of Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity (Princeton University Press), and she co-translated and wrote the introduction for Plato: Parmenides (Hackett Publishing). She is co-editor of Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton (Princeton); Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics (Oxford University Press), and most recently, A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing). | | | Richard Heck
Philosophy, Department of
Richard Heck is best known for his work on Frege's philosophy of mathematics. He has published a series of papers exploring Frege's work on formal arithmetic and is working on a book on the subject.
Professor Heck also works on philosophy of language. He has published on sense and reference and has written several pieces on general questions about the nature of linguistic competence.
Heck has recently resumed work on Frege, focusing on questions about Frege's philosophical development. | | | Christopher Hill
Philosophy, Department of
Professor Hill's areas of interest and specialization include philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. His current work focuses on concepts, consciousness, and perception. | | | Jaegwon Kim
Philosophy, Department of
Professor Kim's areas of interest and specialization include philosophy of mind, metaphysics, action theory, epistemology, and philosophy of science. His current work focuses on physicalism, reduction and reductionism, mental causation, and emergence. The specific topics of his current research include: arguments for/against physicalism, substance dualism, overdetermination and the exclusion argument, agency and self-knowledge, subjectivity and normativity in agency, laws and explanation in the special sciences, and philosophical naturalism. | | | Douglas Kutach
Philosophy, Department of
I primarily study philosophical issues regarding causation and the direction of time in the naturalistic tradition. Specifically, I am interested in how fundamental physics alone justifies the use of causal reasoning in the special sciences and in everyday life. This includes explaining why it is not crazy that we think of the past as fixed even though in reality we routinely influence stuff in the past. | | | Charles Larmore
Philosophy, Department of
Charles Larmore's work in moral and political philosophy has focused on such topics as the foundations of political liberalism, the nature of the self, and the nature of moral judgment. He has also published extensively on figures and problems in the history of philosophy, particularly in the area of 17th century philosophy and on German Idealism. He is currently at work on a book about the nature of freedom. | | | Bernard Reginster
Philosophy, Department of
19th and 20th century continental philosophy, ethics, moral psychology.
Professor Reginster's research focuses on issues in ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He has written a number of articles on Nietzsche and 19th century ethics, and a book, The Affirmation of Life. Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism (Harvard Press, 2006). He has also written on the thought of Schopenhauer, Freud, and Sartre. |  | Joshua Schechter
Philosophy, Department of
Joshua Schechter has research interests in epistemology, the philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mathematics. His current research focuses on explaining how it is we have a priori knowledge - knowledge that is independent of the content of our experience of the world around us. |
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