This page includes lists of the Department’s core faculty, cross-appointed faculty, adjunct faculty, teaching fellows, post-docs, research fellows, visiting scholars, emeriti and retirees, and faculty in memoriam.
A note to prospective graduate students about these categories. “Core faculty” are faculty whose primary appointments are to the Department of Philosophy. “Cross-appointed faculty” are members of the Department of Philosophy whose primary appointments are to different units (for example: Political Studies, Law, or Mathematics). Both core and cross-appointed faculty are involved in training philosophy graduate students: like core faculty, cross-appointed faculty can (and do) lead graduate seminars and serve on or chair thesis and dissertation committees.
Note finally that there are faculty involved in training graduate students who are not included in either group. These include, for example, faculty in other units who teach in the M.A. in Political and Legal Thought (PLT) program, and who can (and do) also serve on doctoral dissertation committees, but who are presently not cross-appointed to Philosophy.
Core Faculty
David J. Bakhurst Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Russian Philosophy, Philosophy of Education
Paul Fairfield Continental Philosophy
Kerah Gordon-Solmon Moral and Political Philosophy, Bioethics
Lisa Guenther Critical Prison Studies, Phenomenology, Feminism, Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Race Theory
Deborah Knight Philosophy of Art and Philosophical Aesthetics
Meena Krishnamurthy Social and political philosophy, Africana and Indian Political Philosophy
Rahul Kumar Moral Philosophy / Ethics, Political Philosophy, Moral Psychology
Will Kymlicka Political Philosophy
Daryn Lehoux Ancient Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science, Astrometeorology
Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning Anishinaabe Ontology, Studio Visual Arts, Phenomenology, Critical Theory
Adèle Mercier Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Cognition, Logic, Semantics, Linguistic Theory, Legal Philosophy, Feminism
Jon Miller Early Modern Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
Joshua Mozersky Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Elliot Samuel Paul Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Creativity
Dalitso Ruwe Intellectual History of Africana Philosophy, Anti-Colonial Theory, Africana Legal History, Black Male Studies, Hip Hop Philosophy, Black Philosophies of Education
Udo Schüklenk Bioethics, Practical Ethics
Sergio Sismondo Science and Technology Studies
Mick Smith Environmental Ethics, Gadamer, Social Theory and Hermeneutics
Catherine Stinson Philosophy of Science, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Christine Sypnowich Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Feminist Philosophy
Cross-Appointed Faculty
Cheryl Cline (Health Sciences) Bioethics, Political Philosophy, Environmental Ethics
Jeffrey Collins (History) History of Political thought, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, the English Revolution, Liberalism, the History of Christianity, Toleration and Religious Freedom, Constitutionalism, Monarchy
Colin Farrelly (Political Studies) Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Practical Ethics, Ethics
Andrew Lister (Political Studies) Political Philosophy, Political Theory
Margaret Moore (Political Studies) Political Theory, Political Philosophy
Ram Murty (Mathematics) Number Theory, Indian Philosophy, Mathematical Logic
Michael Pratt (Law) Philosophy of Law, Theories of Private Law, Moral Philosophy
Jean Thomas (Law) Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Meta-Ethics
Grégoire Webber (Law) Philosophy of Law, Human Rights, Public Law
Adjunct Faculty
Omar Bachour
Jeremy Butler
David Campbell
Jacqueline M. Davies Feminist Thought, Jewish Philosophy, Narrative Reasoning, and Critical Thinking
Nancy Salay Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics
Mark C. R. Smith Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Thought
Aaron Wendland Phenomenology, Existentialism, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy, Public Philosophy
Teaching Fellows
Joe Breidenstein (Teaching Fellow)
Daphne Brouwer (Teaching Fellow)
Brennen Harwood (Teaching Fellow) Political and Social Philosophy, Critical Social Theory, Normative Ethics
Kate Lawson (Teaching Fellow) Environmental philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology, Feminist perspectives, Simone Weil
Post-Docs, Research Fellows, & Visiting Scholars
Sue Donaldson (Research Associate) Animal Politics, Animal Ethics, Political Theory, Feminist Philosophy
Pablo Perez Castelló (Post-Doc)
Birte Wrage (Post-Doc)
Jérôme Gosselin-Tapp (Post-Doc)
Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist (Visiting Professor) Bioethics, Public Health Ethics, Risk Ethics, the Ethics of Technology, Environmental Ethics, Moral Responsibility
Emeriti and Retirees
Jerome Bickenbach Bioethics, Philosophy of Law, Disability Studies
Albert P. Fell Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Art
Jacalyn Duffin Medical Epistemology, Concepts of Disease, History of Medicine
Michael A. Fox Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy, Existentialism, Philosophy of Peace, Cultural Studies, Environmental Philosophy
Leslie Green Philosophy of Law, Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy, Constitutional Theory, Human Rights
Henry Laycock Metaphysics, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Marx
Stephen Leighton Ancient Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Ethics
Alistair M. Macleod Moral, Social & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Christine Overall Philosophy of Ageing and Death, Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, Procreative Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
Carlos G. Prado Epistemology, Descartes, Foucault, Rational Suicide, Physician-Assisted Suicide
In Memoriam
Susan E. Babbitt Early or Theravada Buddhism, José Martí
D.L.C. (Lorne) Maclachlan Epistemology, Perception, Kant