Professor Paul Tran-Hoang's research research focuses on logic, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mathematics. He's also interested in the history of science and 19th and 20th century philosophy. In particular, he is interested in questions concerning the nature of mathematical truth and mathematical knowledge. Mathematics is philosophically puzzling for a variety of reasons: the...
Faculty Spotlights
Stephen Finlay commences as Professor of Philosophy in Fall 2025, returning to his alma mater after a gap of 23 years. His past research is focused on metaethics and philosophical moral psychology, particularly the semantics and pragmatics of normative language and the nature of normativity. He has written extensively on value, the meaning of 'ought', the nature of reasons, normative disagreement...
Professor Erlenbusch-Anderson is a critical theorist whose work is situated at the intersection of political theory, philosophy (with an emphasis on political philosophy and contemporary European philosophy), history, and conflict/terrorism studies. She is one of the most talented political theorists of her generation, and she holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science....
Luvell Anderson is a Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After completing his PhD at Rutgers University in 2011, he joined Penn State as the inaugural Alain Locke Postdoctoral Fellow, followed by faculty positions at the University of Memphis and Syracuse University. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Applied...
Professor Kevin Scharp is a Professor of Philosophy, with broad research interests in the philosophy of language, meta-ethics, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, theories of truth, the philosophy of science, and the history of analytic philosophy. He is widely considered a world leader in the fertile research program of “conceptual engineering,” which recommends that philosophers not...
Alison Duncan Kerr is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, with broad research interests in feminist philosophy, the philosophy of gender, sex, and love, logic, theories of rationality, and the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
Noël Saenz is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Directory of Graduate Studies, who specializes in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. He is interested in a range of issues that have to do with layered view of reality (e.g., grounding, fundamentality, parts and whole, and the nature and existence of facts) and also places where metaphysics and philosophy of religion overlap (e.g.,...
Zach Biondi is a Lecturer in Philosophy, who is interested in the history of philosophy, ethics, and technology. He has special interests in connections between Kant's moral and practical philosophy and ethical questions raised by developments in technology.
Jochen Bojanowski is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, who does research in moral and political philosophy, with a particular interest in Kant’s practical philosophy. His first book, Kant’s Theory of Freedom, articulates and defends Kant’s incompatibilist account of free will as a capacity for moral autonomy—thus dealing with some of the most vexing problems in Kant’s moral philosophy and...
Jonathan Livengood is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, who works primarily in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, and experimental philosophy. Most of his research is motivated in some way by an interest in scientific method—an interest he’s had since he first read C.S. Peirce’s Illustrations of the Logic of Science as an undergraduate.