Faculty members in the Department of Philosophy are listed below. Please click on a name to view detailed information. Scroll down or click here to see a list of faculty research interests, and here to see our recent research.

Full-time Faculty

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Kyla Bruff

German Idealism; Critical theory; 20th c. French Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Existentialism; Romanticism

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Gabriele Contessa

Social Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Economics; Political Philosophy

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Eros Corazza

Philosophy of language, mind and cognitive science; Linguistics and the semantics/pragmatics interface

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Gordon Davis

Moral philosophy; Kant; Social and political philosophy; Metaethics; Comparative history of ethics

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Jay Drydyk

Social and political philosophy; Interntional development ethics; Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sen, Nussbaum

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Melissa Frankel

Early modern philosophy; Feminist philosophy; History of analytic philosophy; Philosophy of perception

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Christine Koggel

Moral and political philosophy; Feminist theory; Gender; Development ethics; Relational theory; Applied ethics; Settler-colonialism; Indigenous Issues

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Annie Larivée, Departmental Chair

Ancient philosophy and its modern reappropriations; Philosophy as a way of life; Philosophy as therapy; Philosophy of Love and Sex.

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Marie-Pier Lemay

Term Instructor in Ethics

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David Matheson

Philosophy of life; epistemology

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Myrto Mylopoulos

philosophy of mind; philosophy of action; philosophy of cognitive science

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Vida Panitch

Associate Professor - Political Philosophy - Philosophy and Economics - Bioethics

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Josh Redstone

Instructor

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Joshua Shepherd

Philosophy of Action; Philosophy of Mind; Applied Ethics; Philosophy of Cognitive Science

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Cross-Appointed Faculty

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Alexis Shotwell

Professor

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Visiting Professors

Contract Instructors

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Melanie Coughlin

Contract Instructor

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Ken Ferguson

Contract Instructor

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Timothy Grainger

Contract Instructor - EPAF PhD Student

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Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck

Contract Instructor

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Kate Lawson

Contract Instructor

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Christopher McGrath

Contract Instructor

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Nalini Ramlakhan

Contract Instructor

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Elisabeta Sarca

Contract Instructor

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Professor Emeritus

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Andrew Brook

Distinguished Research Professor

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Steven Davis

Professor Emeritus

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Wendy Donner

Professor Emeritus

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Geraldine Finn

Professor Emeritus

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Adjunct Research Professors

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Bela Egyed

Adjunct Research Professor

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Stephen Maguire

Adjunct Research Professor

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Randal Robert Alexander Marlin

Adjunct Research Professor

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Alex Michalos

Adjunct Research Professor

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Deborah Poff

Adjunct Research Professor

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Marc Saner

Adjunct Research Professor

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Robert Ware

Adjunct Research Professor

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Faculty Research Interests

Our faculty has a wide range of research interests. Click on the names of the individual faculty members to learn more about them.

Gabriele Contessa

  • Philosophy of science
  • Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Economics
Gordon Davis

  • Moral philosophy
  • Kant
  • Social and political philosophy
  • Metaethics
  • Comparative history of ethics
Jay Drydyk

  • Social and political philosophy
  • International development ethics
  • Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sen, Nussbaum
Melissa Frankel

  • Early modern philosophy
  • Feminist philosophy (including history of feminist philosophy, and history of women philosophers)
  • History of analytic philosophy
  • Philosophy of perception
Christine Koggel

  • Moral and political philosophy
  • Feminism
  • Relational theory
  • Development ethics
  • Equality theory
  • Applied ethics
Annie Larivee

  • Ancient philosophy as a way of life and quest for wisdom (especially Roman Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, Scepticism, the figure of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
  • Philosophy as therapy, existential psychology, and the intersection of philosophy and psychotherapy in general
  • Modern appropriations of ancient philosophies
  • Philosophy of love, friendship, and sex
  • Feminism
David Matheson

  • Philosophy of life (especially, meaning as a final value in life and its relationship to a life worth living)
  • Epistemology (especially, social epistemology and knowledge-related values)
Myrto Mylopoulos

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Action
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Vida Panitch

  • Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy and Economics
  • Bioethics
Joshua Shepherd

  • Philosophy of Action
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Applied Ethics
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Kyla Bruff

  • German Idealism: Kant, Schelling, Hegel
  • Critical theory, especially the Frankfurt School
  • 20th century French Philosophy
  • Social and political philosophy
  • Existentialism
  • German Romanticism

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