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David Sosa, Chair WAG 316, Mailcode C3500, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-4857

Faculty List

Professors

Nicholas M Asher

Professor

nasher@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4857  |  WAG 221

Education   

PhD, Yale

Interests

  Logic, semantics, philosophy of language

Daniel A Bonevac

Professor

bonevac@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-4333  |  WAG 403

Education   

PhD, Pittsburgh

Interests

  Philosophical logic, metaphysics, ethics, cognitive science, Non-Western philosophy, Christian philosophy

J. Budziszewski

Professor

jbud@grandecom.net  |  512-232-7229  |  MEZ 3.106

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University

Interests

  Political philosophy

Jonathan Dancy

Professor

jdancy@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-2620  |  WAG 305

Education   

MA, Oxford

Interests

  Ethics, Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy

John Deigh

Professor

jdeigh@law.utexas.edu  |  471-6753, 472-1379  |  TNH 4.109

Education   

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Interests

  Ethics, political philosophy

Robert J Hankinson

Professor

rjhankinson@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5572  |  WAG 409

Education   

PhD, Cambridge

Interests

  Ancient philosophy, early modern philosophy, metaphysics, history and philosophy of science

Kathleen M Higgins

Professor

kmhiggins@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5564  |  WAG 408A

Education   

PhD, Yale

Interests

  Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, aesthetics, philosophy of music, Non-Western philosophy, philosophy of emotion

Herbert I Hochberg

Professor

hochberg@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6766  |  WAG 410C

Education   

PhD, Iowa

Interests

  Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic

Hans Kamp

Visiting Professor

hanskamp@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-4880  |  WAG 221

Education   

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Interests

  Language and Thought, Philosophy of Language (Propositional Attitudes)

Robert C Koons

Professor

koons@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5530  |  WAG 405

Education   

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Interests

  Logic, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Christian philosophy

Al P. Martinich

Professorship

martinich@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6770  |  WAG 416A

Education   

PhD, University of California at San Diego

Interests

  History of political philosophy, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, philosophy of language, medieval philosophy

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Alexander Mourelatos

Professor

apdm@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6749  |  WAG 200C

Education   

PhD, Yale

Interests

  Ancient philosophy, early modern philosophy

Stephen H Phillips

Professor

phillips@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5080  |  WAG 301

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests

  Indian philosophy, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion

Richard M Sainsbury

Professor

marksainsbury@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5433  |  WAG 403A

Education   

DPhil, Oxford

Interests

  Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, Frege, Russell

Sahotra Sarkar

Professor

sarkar@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-7122  |  WAG 415A

Education   

PhD, Chicago

Interests

  Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, environmental ethics, Kant

Thomas K Seung

Professor

t.k.seung@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6808  |  WAG 431

Education   

PhD, Yale

Interests

  Philosophy of law, continental philosophy, political philosophy, Kant

Tara A Smith

Professor

tarasmithtx@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6777  |  WAG 231

Education   

PhD, Johns Hopkins

Interests

  Ethics, political philosophy

David Sosa

Professor and Chair

david_sosa@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4857  |  WAG 316cb

Education   

PhD, Princeton

Interests

  Epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language

Michael Tye

Professor

mtye@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6789  |  WAG 425

Education   

PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo

Interests

  Philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language

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Stephen A White

Professor; Director, Joint Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy

sawhite@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-7457  |  WAG 123B

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Ancient ethics, Aristotle, Plato, Stoicism

Paul B Woodruff

Dean

pbw@mail.utexas.edu  |  475-7000  |  FAC 406

Education   

PhD, Princeton

Interests

  Ancient philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy and literature

Associate Professors

David I Beaver

Associate Professor

dib@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-9028  |  CAL 414

Education   

PhD, Edinburgh

Joshua Dever

Associate Professor

dever@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5611  |  WAG 410B

Education   

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Logic, philosophy of language

Cory F Juhl

Associate Professor

cjuhl@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4944  |  WAG 419

Education   

PhD, Pittsburgh

Interests

  Philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, formal learning theory, logic

Ian N Proops

Associate Professor

iproops@austin.utexas.edu  |  WAG 209

Education   

PhD, Harvard

Interests

  Kant, History of Analytic Philosophy

Assistant Professors

Lawrence R Buchanan

Asst Professor

raybuchanan@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7396  |  WAG 416B

Education   

PhD, New York University

Sinan Dogramaci

Assistant Professor

Education   

PhD, New York University

Anna-Sara Malmgren

Assistant Professor

annasara@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-4857  |  WAG 410B

Education   

PhD, New York University

Adam Pautz

Assistant Professor

apautz@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5293  |  WAG 408A

Education   

PhD, New York University

Interests

  Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics and Epistemology

Lecturers

Charles A Krecz

Senior Lecturer

ckrecz@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5642  |  WAG 423

Education   

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Contemporary moral problems, human nature, process philosophy and pragmatism

Jeffrey C Leon

Lecturer

jcleon@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6780  |  WAG 315

Education   

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Philosophy of science, applied ethics, ethical theory, human nature

Professors Emeriti

Edwin B Allaire

Professor Emeritus

eballaire@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6756  |  WAG 325

Education   

PhD, Iowa

Interests

  Metaphysics and Epistemology, early modern philosophy, Wittgenstein, Analytic Philosophy

Ignazio A. Angelelli

Professor Emeritus

angelelli@mail.utexas.edu  |  512.471.6752  |  WAG 209

Interests

  Logic, history of logic, Analytic Philosophy

Robert S Boyer

Professor

boyer@cs.utexas.edu  |  471-9745  |  MAI 2014

Education   

PhD, UT Austin

Interests

  Logic, automatic theorem proving, ancient philosophy

David Braybrooke

Professor Emeritus

braybrookeb@yahoo.com  |  512-232-7281  |  MEZ 3.206

Education   

Ph.D., Cornell University

Interests

  Ethics, political philosophy

Grayson D Browning

Professor Emeritus

browning@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6777  |  WAG 231

Education   

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Pragmatist Movement, Ontology and Morality, Metaphysics, The Moral Stance, Theory of Knowledge

Robert L Causey

Professor Emeritus

rlc@cs.utexas.edu  |  471-6755  |  WAG 413

Education   

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, artificial intelligence

Robert H Kane

Professor Emeritus

rkane@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  471-6776  |  WAG 219

Education   

PhD, Yale

Interests

  Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Ethics, Contemporary Moral Problems, Philosophy of Religion, Mind & Action, Knowledge & Valuation, Ideas & Social Change in the 21st Century, Intro to Philosophy

Norman M Martin

Professor Emeritus

martin@cs.utexas.edu  |  471-5387  |  WAG 316

Education   

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Interests

  Humans and computers, logic and set theory, computability and decidibility, symbolic logic, discrete mathematics

Assistant Instructors

Matthew Dasti

Assistant Instructor

Anders Floor

Assistant Instructor

Nicholas Mantegani

Assistant Instructor

Bryan Pickel

Assistant Instructor

Michael Sevel

Assistant Instructor

Malte Willer

Assistant Instructor

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