Regular Faculty

The regular faculty of the Department of Philosophy comprise nine members with particular strengths in the fields of history of philosophy, philosophy of science, and value theory. Click on each faculty member's picture for more information about their research and teaching interests.

Steven Daskal

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2005
Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Action
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William FitzPatrick

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. UCLA, 1995
Ethics, Metaethics, Applied Ethics
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James Klagge

Professor and Chair, Ph.D. UCLA, 1983
Wittgenstein, Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics, 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
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Simon Cabulea May

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Stanford University, 2004
Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
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Deborah Mayo

Professor, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1979
Philosophy of Statistics, Philosophy of Science
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Walter Ott

Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2000
History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology
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Daniel Parker

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2006
Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science
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Lydia Patton

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. McGill University, 2004
Kant and Neo-Kantianism, History of the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science
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Joseph Pitt

Professor, Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, 1972
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
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