Janet Broughton (Ph.D., Princeton University). Her research interests lie in the history of modern philosophy; since completing Descartes’s Method of Doubt, she has been working mainly on Hume. Her teaching during the past five years has included courses and seminars on topics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy as well as several introductory courses. She is Dean of Arts and Humanities in the College of Letters and Science.

Lara Buchak (Ph.D., Princeton University). Her primary research interests are in decision, game, and rational choice theory. Her work focuses on how an individual should take risk into account when making decisions, and she argues for a more permissive theory of rationality than is standardly assumed. She is also working on two applications of this theory: one in formal epistemology and one in the philosophy of religion. In philosophy of religion, she is interested in what faith is, and under what circumstances it is rational to have faith. She also has more general interests in the philosophy of religion, and in epistemology.

John Campbell (D.Phil, University of Oxford). His main interests are in theory of meaning, metaphysics, and philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on causation in psychology. He is the author of Past, Space and Self (1994) and Reference and Consciousness (2002).

Hubert Dreyfus (Ph.D., Harvard University). His research interests bridge the analytic and Continental traditions in 20th-century philosophy. He recently completed the second edition of On the Internet (Routledge). Luring Back the gods is forthcoming from Free Press. Over the past several years his teaching has included a Discovery Course and courses on Heidegger and on Merleau-Ponty. He teaches at least one course every semester.

Branden Fitelson (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin). His research interests lie mainly in the philosophy of science, logic, and epistemology. His recent papers have focused largely on the role of probability in inductive logic and epistemology. He also has active interdisciplinary projects involving the psychology of probability and confirmation judgment and applications of automated reasoning to formal philosophy. He is currently working on a book on confirmation theory, which will trace both its historical and philosophical development.

Dorothea Frede (Dr. phil., Göttingen University). In recent years her main focus has been on ethics and methodology in Plato’s later works and on ethics and politics in Aristotle. Currently she is working on a translation and commentary of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for the Berlin Academy Series. A serious side-interest of hers lies in phenomenology, especially the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger.

Hannah Ginsborg (Undergraduate Advisor) (Ph.D., Harvard University). Her research focuses on Kant and on issues in contemporary epistemology and philosophy of mind. Her work on Kant includes articles on Kant’s aesthetic theory, philosophy of biology, and theory of judgment. Recent articles on contemporary issues have been concerned with the content of perceptual experience and the question of whether experiences can be reasons for belief. Much of her teaching has been on 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, but she has also taught courses dealing with the philosophy of biology, with philosophical issues regarding race and culture, and with various topics in theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind.

Niko Kolodny (Ph.D., University of California–Berkeley). His main interests are in moral and political philosophy. He is currently working on papers about partiality, rationality, promises, and Rousseau. His publications include “Why Be Rational?” (Mind, 2005) and “Love as Valuing a Relationship” (The Philosophical Review, 2003).

Geoffrey Lee (Ph.D., New York University). His main areas of research interest are philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and the foundations of cognitive science and neuroscience.

John MacFarlane (Graduate Advisor) (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh). His primary research interests lie in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and related issues in metaphysics and epistemology; he also maintains a serious secondary interest in ancient philosophy. He is currently finishing up a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications.

Paolo Mancosu (Ph.D., Stanford University). His interests lie in the philosophy of mathematics and its history, in philosophy of logic, and in mathematical logic. His written work is currently focused upon the notion of mathematical explanation; he has also recently completed papers on 20th-century explorations of the foundations of mathematics and on Tarski’s philosophical engagement. He has recently published “The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice”(OUP 2008).

Michael Martin (D.Phil., University of Oxford). His main interests lie in the philosophy of mind and psychology. He is currently finishing a book on naïve realism in the theory of perception, provisionally titled Uncovering Appearances. He has also been working on the relation between emotions and phenomenal experience and the nature of pain. Recent publications include, “The Limits of Self-Awareness”, Philosophical Studies, 2004 and “On Being Alienated”, in Perceptual Experience (OUP), eds. Gendler & Hawthorne.

Véronique Munoz-Dardé (Ph.D., European University Institute). Her main interests lie in moral and political philosophy. In recent years she has written articles on the importance of numbers in practical reasoning, on the political ideal of equality, on responsibility, and on distributive justice. During this period she has taught seminars on contractualism, equality, Hume’s Treatise, and values and practical reasoning. She is the author of La justice sociale (2001), and is currently finishing a book on the way that the political is personal, provisionally called Bound Together.

Alva Noë (B.Phil, University of Oxford, Ph.D., Harvard University). The main focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, he interested in Phenomenology, the theory of art, Wittgenstein, and the origins of analytic philosophy.

Sherrilyn Roush (On Leave) (Ph.D., Harvard University). Her philosophical interests are mainly in general philosophy of science, epistemology, and probability. She has recently published Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science (2006), which develops a tracking theory of knowledge, a likelihood-ratio-based view of evidence integrated with it, and a novel approach to scientific realism. She is currently working on fallibility. Recent papers include “Closure on Skepticism,” “Second-Guessing: A Self-Help Manual,” “The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Survival,” “Love Science,” and “Optimism about the Pessimistic Induction.”

John R. Searle (D. Phil., University of Oxford). His work ranges broadly over philosophical problems of mind and language. Recent books include The Mystery of Consciousness (1997), Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World (1998), Rationality in Action (2001), Mind (2004), and Liberté et Neurobiologie (2004). He teaches philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of social science; recent seminars topics include consciousness, free will, and rationality.

Hans Sluga (On Leave) (B. Phil., University of Oxford). His interests lie mostly in recent European philosophy from Frege to Foucault and he is currently working on a book on the concept of the political with the title The Care of the Common. His teaching over the past few years has included courses or seminars on Frege, Russell, early and late Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, political philosophy, and Foucault.

Barry Stroud (Ph.D., Harvard University). In his work he is engaged with issues in epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the history of modern philosophy. He has recently published The Quest for Reality, Understanding Human Knowledge, and Meaning, Understanding, and Practice (all Oxford University Press). In recent years he has taught courses on Wittgenstein, theory of knowledge, and metaphysics, and seminars on subjectivism and on intentionality.

R. Jay Wallace (Chair) (B. Phil., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Princeton University). His interests lie mainly in moral philosophy and the history of ethics. His research has focused on responsibility, moral psychology, and the theory of practical reason. Recently he has written on promising, normativity, constructivism, instrumental reason, resentment, hypocrisy, and Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals (among other topics). His publications include Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments (Harvard) and Normativity and the Will (Oxford). During the past few years he has taught courses on ethics, moral psychology, and free will and seminars on moral contractualism, practical reason, future persons, and work by Darwall, Parfit, and Scanlon.

Daniel Warren (M.D., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Harvard University). His work focuses on Kant and on the history and philosophy of science in the 17th and 18th centuries. Recent papers have concerned Kant and the apriority of space, Kant’s conception of things in themselves, and Kant’s dynamics. He teaches courses on introductory logic, bioethics, personal identity, and Kant; recent seminars have been about Leibniz, transcendental arguments, and self-knowledge.

Seth Yalcin (Ph.D., MIT). He works mostly in the philosophy of language, but his research interests also extend to issues in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, formal epistemology, and linguistics.

Katharina Kaiser Katharina Kaiser studied Philosophy, German Literature, and Physics at the University of Hamburg, where she worked as an Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in the Department of Philosophy after receiving her degree. Her research and teaching interests encompass a range of topics in the history of philosophy, aesthetics, literary modernism, and the avant-garde.

Meir Dan-Cohen (LL.M., JSD, Yale University). He is a faculty member at the law school where he holds the Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics. His main interests are in legal, moral, and political philosophy, with a special emphasis on the relevance to those areas of conceptions of self. This range of interests is exhibited in his recent book, Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality (2002, Princeton University Press).

G. R. F. (John) Ferrari (Ph.D. Cambridge University, Classics). Professor Ferrari teaches in the Classics department, where he specializes in ancient philosophy. His philosophic interests are in the areas of aesthetics, hermeneutics, and political thought. He has published primarily on Plato, with books on the Phaedrus and the Republic, and has collaborated on a new translation of the Republic.

Alison Gopnik (D. Phil Oxford University). She is a professor in the psychology department and works on problems of causal knowledge and learning, intuitive theory formation, and “theory of mind.” Her work explores the relation between empirical work in cognitive development and classical philosophical problems in epistemology and philosophy of mind. She is coauthor of Words, Thoughts and Theories (MIT Press, 1997) and The Scientist in the Crib (Harper Collins, 2000).

Jodi Halpern (M.D., Ph.D., Yale University). She is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the School of Public Health/Joint Medical Program. She works mainly on emotions and the imagination, with a longstanding focus on empathy. She is the author of From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice (Oxford University Press). Halpern recently received a Greenwall Faculty Scholar career development award to write about emotions and envisioning future well-being, and the impact of this on serious health decisions.

Kinch Hoekstra (D.Phil., Oxford University). Hoekstra is a faculty member in the Political Science Department and in the Law School’s program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. He works in the history of political, moral, and legal philosophy, particularly in ancient Greece and early modern Europe.

Christopher Kutz (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley; J.D., Yale University). He is a faculty member in the Law School’s program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. He works mainly in moral, legal, and political philosophy. He is author of Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age (Cambridge University Press).

Tania Lombrozo (Ph.D., Harvard University). She is a faculty member in the psychology department, where she specializes in cognitive psychology. Her current research examines the structure and function of explanations, categories, and causal claims. In a second line of work, she studies moral reasoning. Her philosophical interests center on the philosophy of science, but also include issues in philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and moral philosophy.

Anthony A. Long (Ph.D., University of London). His main field of teaching and research is ancient philosophy. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy and his other books include Hellenistic Philosophy (University of California Press) and Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (Oxford University Press).

Line Mikkelsen (Ph.D., U.C. Santa Cruz). Mikkelsen is a faculty member in the Linguistics Department who works on the syntax, semantics, and morphology of natural languages and the relations between these. She maintains an interest in philosophy of language and participates in the Bay Area Philosophy of Language Discussion Group. She is the author of Copular Clauses: Specification, Predication and Equation (2005, John Benjamins).

Stephen Palmer (Ph.D., U.C. San Diego). He is a faculty member in the Psychology Department (in the Cognition, Brain and Behavior group) and has strong ties to the Cognitive Science program on campus. He works mainly on organizational issues in visual perception but also is interested in color. He is the author of Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology (1999, MIT Press) and is currently writing a book about color.

Eric Rakowski (B.Phil., D.Phil., Oxford University; J.D., Harvard Law School). He is a law professor who works on questions of moral and political philosophy and bioethics, besides teaching and writing on federal tax issues and trust and estate law. Professor Rakowski directs the Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs. He is the author of Equal Justice (Oxford University Press).

John R. Steel (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley). He is a professor in the mathematics department. Most of his work lies in set theory, and in particular in Gödel’s program for strengthening the set-theoretic foundation of mathematics through the addition of strong axioms of infinity. Broader philosophical issues concerning meaning and evidence for mathematical statements come to the fore here. Steel’s paper “Mathematics Needs New Axioms” (Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, vol. 6 (2000), 422–433) discusses Gödel’s program, with special attention to questions of meaning and evidence.

Charles Chihara (Ph.D., University of Washington). He has published many articles in his principal areas of interest: philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of logic. He has also published widely in the philosophy of science and confirmation theory, as well as on the philosophies of Wittgenstein, Russell, Quine, Goodman and Davidson. He is the author of Ontology and the Vicious Circle Principle (1973), Constructibility and Mathematical Existence (1990), The Worlds of Possibility: Model Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic (1998), and A Structural Account of Mathematics (2004). He is now working on various problems in the philosophy of mathematics.

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