Department Research
Research in the Department of Philosophy focuses primarily on three areas: Mind (including phenomenology, philosophy of mind, cognitive sciences, social cognition and collective intentionality, philosophy of psychology/psychiatry), European/Continental philosophy (from Kant through contemporary thought), and social and political philosophy (including critical theory, philosophy of race, African-American and Afro-Caribbean philosophy, and feminist philosophy).
- Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Cognitive Science
- European/Continental Philosophy
- Social and Political Philosophy
The department also has ongoing research interests in Ethics and History of Philosophy.
Recent and Upcoming Seminars
The department regularly offers graduate seminars that reflect our faculty’s research specializations, as well as courses in the history of philosophy; metaphysics, epistemology, and related areas; and the normative branches of philosophy. These seminars provide students with the opportunity to engage deeply with core philosophical questions while also exploring cutting-edge scholarship.
A list of graduate courses offered may be found here.
Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Cognitive Science
Shaun Gallagher (phenomenology, embodied cognition, social cognition)
David Gray (philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive psychology)
European/Continental Philosophy
James Bahoh (Phenomenology, Ontology, German and French philosophy (Kant to present), Heidegger,
Deleuze, German Idealism)
Shaun Gallagher (phenomenology, hermeneutics, Merleau-Ponty)
Mary Beth Mader (contemporary Continental philosophy, especially Deleuze, Foucault)
Michael Monahan (Phenomenology, Hegel)
Kas Sagafi (Continental philosophy, especially Derrida)
Daniel Smith (Kant, German Idealism, Schelling, 20th-century continental philosophy, modern philosophy)
Social and Political Philosophy
Sean Driscoll (environmental philosophy)
David Miguel Gray (philosophy of race and racism, African-American philosophy)
Mary Beth Mader (feminist theory)
Michael Monahan (social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy)
Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou (Black feminism)
Lindsey Stewart (Black feminism)
Deborah Tollefsen (social ontology, feminist philosophy)
Ethics
Remy Debes (Ethics / history of ethics, moral psychology, human dignity, metaethics, empathy)
Shaun Gallagher (Empathy, practical wisdom)
Deborah Tollefsen (Collective responsibility)
History of Philosophy
Remy Debes (History of ethics, Scottish Enlightenment, Hume, Adam Smith)
Shaun Gallagher (Hegel, 20th-c. European philosophy)