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Core Faculty

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests	Office Hours
Kate Abramson Associate Professor	Sycamore Hall 115 856-3676 kaabrams indiana.edu	Hume, history of ethics, contemporary ethics, and early modern philosophy	T, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Marcia Baron Rudy Professor of Philosophy	Sycamore Hall 126 856-0101 mbaron indiana.edu	Moral philosophy, moral psychology, and philosophy of law	On Sabbatical - By Appointment
Gary Ebbs Professor Department Chair	Sycamore Hall 117 855-7800 gebbs indiana.edu	Philosophy of Language and Mind, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, and History of Analytic Philosophy, especially Carnap and Quine	T/TR, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Pieter Hasper Assistant Professor	Sycamore Hall 017 855-7405 phasper indiana.edu	Ancient philosophy	W, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Mark Kaplan Professor	Sycamore Hall 113 855-2539 kaplanm indiana.edu	Decision theory, Epistemology, Austin	T/TR, 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Adam Leite Associate Professor	Sycamore Hall 107 856-4148 aleite indiana.edu	Contemporary epistemology	M, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Kirk Ludwig Professor Director of Graduate Studies	Sycamore Hall 125 855-2404 ludwig indiana.edu	Philosophy of Mind & Action, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology	T/TR, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
David Charles McCarty Professor Director of Graduate Admissions	Sycamore Hall 121 855-9899 dmccarty indiana.edu	Foundations of mathematics and logic, early analytical philosophy, and on the history of mathematics and logic	T/TR, 10:00am to 11:00am
Timothy O'Connor Professor	Sycamore Hall 122 855-6817 toconnor indiana.edu	Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion	On Sabbatical - By Appointment
Leah Savion Senior Lecturer Director of Associate Instructor Training	Sycamore Hall 109 855-4705 lsavion indiana.edu	Logic, cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, epistemology and pedagogical theories	M/W, 12:40pm to 1:40pm
Frederick F. Schmitt Professor	Sycamore Hall 111 855-3296 fschmitt indiana.edu	Epistemology and metaphysics and the history of epistemology and metaphysics	On Sabbatical - By Appointment
Sandra Shapshay Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	Sycamore Hall 015 855-4131 sshapsha indiana.edu	Schopenhauer, Kant, the history of aesthetics and ethics in 19th century Continental philosophy	TR, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Joan Weiner Professor	Sycamore Hall 127 855-5237 begriff indiana.edu	Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy (Frege)	T, 11:30am to 12:30pm TR, 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Allen Wood Ruth Norman Halls Professor of Philosophy	Sycamore Hall 124 856-0912 awwood indiana.edu	History of modern philosophy, especially Kant and German idealism, and chiefly in the areas of ethics and social and political philosophy.	T, 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Rega Wood Professor	Sycamore Hall 119 856-3783 regawood indiana.edu	Medieval Philosophy, Ethics and the History and Philosophy of Science.	By Appointment

Faculty with primarily administrative duties

Faculty Member	Contact	Education
Michael A. McRobbie President of Indiana University Professor of Philosophy	855-4613 iupres indiana.edu	Ph.D. Australian National University, 1979

Emeritus Faculty

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests
Nino B. Cocchiarella Professor Emeritus	cocchiar indiana.edu	Logic and formal semantics; philosophy of mathematics, language, and science; artificial intelligence and cognitive science
J. Michael Dunn Oscar Ewing Professor Emeritus of Philosophy	dunn indiana.edu	Information based logics and relations between logic and computer science
Paul D. Eisenberg Professor Emeritus	Weatherly Hall 111 855-7774 eisenber indiana.edu	Philosophies of Plato and Spinoza and, especially, Hegel and Nietzsche
Milton Fisk Professor Emeritus	fiskm indiana.edu	Applied and health ethics, contemporary continental philosophy, Marxist philosophy, political philosophy, and the history of social and political philosophy
Karen Hanson Professor Emeritus	hansonk indiana.edu
Michael L. Morgan Professor Emeritus	morganm indiana.edu	Ancient Greek Philosophy to philosophy, religious thought, and political theory in the twentieth century
Dennis M. Senchuk Professor Emeritus	senchuk indiana.edu	Action theory, epistemology, metaphysics, moral development, philosophy of education, biology, and psychology
Raymond Smullyan Oscar R. Ewing Professor Emeritus of Philosophy		Mathematical logic, set theory, theory of computable functions, mathematical games and puzzles, and Eastern philosophy
Paul Vincent Spade Professor Emeritus	spade indiana.edu	Medieval philosophy, particularly late medieval logic and semantic theory

Adjunct Faculty

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests
Colin Allen Professor of History and Philosophy of Science	Goodbody 113 855-8916 colallen indiana.edu	Biology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Animal Cognition
Barry L. Bull Professor of Education	W.W. Wright Education Building Room 4240 856-8377 Send Email	Moral status and justification of the education enterprise and of particular education policies
Jordi Cat Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science	Goodbody 130 855-8806 jcat indiana.edu	Physics, Unity of Science, Application of Mathematics, Application of Mathematics, History of Philosophy of Science, Visual and Material Culture and Cognition
Judy Failer Associate Professor of Political Science	Woodburn Hall 210 855-6308 jfailer indiana.edu	intersection of public law, political philosophy, and ethics and public policy
Amit Hagar Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science	Goodbody 120 855-2541 hagara indiana.edu	Statistical & Quantum Mechanics, Time, Quantum Information & Computing
Douglas Hofstadter College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science	CRCC, 510 N. Fess Ave 855-6965 dughof indiana.edu	Cognitive science, computers, artificial intelligence, creativity, intelligence, psychology, thought process
Jeffrey Isaac Rudy Professor of Political Science	Woodburn Hall 210 855-8605 isaac indiana.edu	Contemporary challenges to democratic politics
Daniel M. Leivant Professor of Computer Science	Lindley Hall 201A 855-6221 leivant cs.indiana.edu	Theory of computing, theory of programming languages, mathematical logic and foundations of mathematics
Elisabeth Lloyd Professor of History and Philosophy of Science	Goodbody Hall 130 855-3195 ealloyd indiana.edu	Biology, Models
Luise Prior McCarty Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education	W.W. Wright Education Building Room 4236 856-8385 Send Email	Philosophy of Education
Lawrence S. Moss Professor of Mathematics	Rawles Hall 323 855-8281 lmoss indiana.edu	Applied logic, coalgebra, natural logic, epistemic logic
William Rasch Professor of Germanic Studies	Ballantine Hall 654 855-7947 wrasch indiana.edu	German philosophical tradition, especially social and political theory
Jutta Schickore Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science	jschicko indiana.edu	Life Sciences, Scientific Practice, History of Philosophy of Science
Brian Schrag Associate Professor, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics	618 East Third St. 855-6450 appe indiana.edu
John Walbridge Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Culture	Goodbody Hall 222 855-8689 jwalbrid indiana.edu	Islamic philosophy; Islamic intellectual history, emphasis on the cultural role of philosophy and science

Emeritus Adjunct Faculty

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests
James G. Hart Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies	Sycamore Hall 007 855-8089 hart indiana.edu	Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Theology; Peace and Conflict studies
Oscar Kenshur Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor Emeritus of English and Philosophy	okenshur indiana.edu	Interrelations between literature and philosophy
Noretta Koertge Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science	koertge indiana.edu	Philosophy of Science
Gerald J. Larson Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies	glarson indiana.edu	Indian Philosophy; Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion; History of Religions

Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests	Office Hours
Carrie Swanson Postdoctoral Fellow	Sycamore Hall 011 ceswanso indiana.edu	Ancient philosophy	M/W, 5:15pm to 6:15pm

Librarian for Philosophy

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests
Catherine Minter Assistant Librarian for Germanic Studies, French & Italian, Philosophy, Classical Studies, and Linguistics.	(812) 855-1702 cjminter indiana.edu	German literature and intellectual history of the 18th and 19th centuries; history of librarianship