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This page includes separate listings of Core Faculty, Faculty with primarily administrative duties, Emeritus Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, and Emeritus Adjunct Faculty. Click on any highlighted name for further information.

Core Faculty

Kate ABRAMSON
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1997
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Marcia BARON
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 1982
Rudy Professor of Philosophy

Myles BRAND
Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1967
President Emeritus of Indiana University, and Professor of Philosophy

Gary EBBS
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1988
Professor of Philosophy

Mark KAPLAN
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1978
Professor of Philosophy

Adam LEITE
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2000
Associate Professor of Philosophy

David Charles McCARTY
D.Phil. Oxford University
Professor of Philosophy

Michael L. MORGAN
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1978
Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies

Timothy W. O'CONNOR
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1992
Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, and Associate Member of the Cognitive Sciences Program

Leah SAVION
Ph.D. City University of New York, 1989
Senior Lecturer of Philosophy and Director of Associate Instructor Training

Frederick F. SCHMITT
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1980
Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies

Dennis SENCHUK
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1973
Associate Professor Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of American Studies and of Education

Sandra Lynne SHAPSHAY
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001
Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy, Affiliate Faculty at the Indiana University Center for Bioethics in Indianapolis

Paul Vincent SPADE
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1972
Professor of Philosophy, Associated Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Science

Kevin TOH
J.D. University of Michigan, 1997; Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2003
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Jonathan WEINBERG
Ph.D. Rutgers, 2002
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy & Program in Cognitive Science

Joan WEINER
Ph.D. Harvard, 1982
Professor of Philosophy

Faculty with primarily administrative duties

Karen HANSON
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1980
Provost and Executive Vice-President, IU Bloomington, Rudy Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Gender Studies, American Studies, and Comparative Literature

Michael A. McRobbie
Ph.D. Australian National University, 1979
President of Indiana University, Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Philosophy

Nino B. Cocchiarella
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

J. Michael Dunn
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1966
Oscar R. Ewing Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Professor of Informatics Emeritus, Dean Emeritus of the School of Informatics, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, member emeritus of the Cognitive Science Program, adjunct faculty emeritus in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Paul D. Eisenberg
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Milton Fisk
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Reinhardt Grossmann
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

George Nakhnikian
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Raymond M. Smullyan
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Adjunct Faculty

Colin Allen
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science

Barry Bull
Professor of Education

Jordi Cat
Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science

Robert Eno
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Judy Failer
Assistant Professor of Political Science

Amit Hagar
Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science

Douglas Hofstadter
College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science.

Jeffrey Isaac
Professor of Political Science.

Daniel M. Leivant
Professor of Computer Science.

Elisabeth Lloyd
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science.

Luise Prior McCarty
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education.

Lawrence S. Moss
Professor of Mathematics.

William Rasch
Professor of Germanic Studies.

Jutta Schickore
Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science

Brian Schrag
Associate Professor, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

John Walbridge
Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Culture.

Emeritus Adjunct Faculty

James G. Hart
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

Oscar Kenshur
Professor of Comparative Literature.

Noretta Koertge
Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science.

Gerald J. Larson 
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies