Professor John Schwenkler joins us as a Full Professor of Philosophy, with broad research interests in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophy of language, ethics, moral psychology, experimental philosophy, and the philosophy of cognitive science. The focus of Professor Schwenkler’s current research is the philosophy of action, including as it bears on normative ethics and...

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 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 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., questions of divine simplicity and...

Robin (Rob) Kar is a Professor of Law and Philosophy and current Head of the Philosophy Department.  His research interests range from ethics, meta-ethics, moral psychology, political philosophy, legal philosophy, decision theory (including game theory and evolutionary game theory), philosophy of economics, philosophy of language, and contract law and theory. Some of his early work—e.g.,...

Shelley Weinberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy, who specializes in 17th and 18th century philosophy of mind, epistemology (both natural and religious), and metaphysics—with an emphasis on the philosophy of John Locke. She is author of the award-winning book, Consciousness in Locke (Oxford, 2016).

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 Assistant 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.

Helga Varden is a Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Gender and Women Studies, whose main research interests are in Kant’s practical philosophy, legal-political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the philosophy of sex and love. She is author of Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory (Oxford University Press) and is currently working toward a book entitled Transforming Our Social...