Faculty

Name	Title	Areas of Interest	Email
Richard Aquila PhD, Northwestern	Professor Emeritus	history of modern philosophy, Kant and Schopenhauer, Sartre	raquila@utk.edu
Jordan Baker PhD, University of Tennessee	Teaching Post-doctoral Fellow	metaphysics; Philosophy of Action	jbaker53@vols.utk.edu
Nora Berenstain PhD, University of Texas	Associate Professor	philosophy of science, metaphysics, feminist epistemology	nberenst@utk.edu
Margaret Bowman PhD, University of Utah	Lecturer	ethics, metaethics, philosophy of psychology	mbowma25@utk.edu
Ginger Clausen PhD, University of Arizona	Lecturer	ethics and feminist philosophy	gclausen@utk.edu
E.J. Coffman PhD, Notre Dame	Professor	epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, action theory	ecoffma1@utk.edu
Adam Cureton BPhil, Oxford PhD, UNC Chapel Hill	Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	ethics, Kant, philosophy of disability	adamcureton@utk.edu
Laura M. Cupples PhD, University of South Carolina	Postdoctoral Teaching Associate	philosophy of science, philosophy of disability, bioethics, and feminist philosophy	lcupples@utk.edu
Richard Eldridge PhD, The University of Chicago	Lecturer	aesthetics and theory of criticism, philosophy of language, philosophy and literature, german idealism, wittgenstein, romanticism	reldrid8@utk.edu
Edward Falls PhD, University of Tennessee	Postdoctoral Teaching Associate	metaphysics	efalls1@utk.edu
Alex Feldt PhD, University of Oklahoma	Distinguished Lecturer	political philosophy, ethics	afeldt@utk.edu
Georgi Gardiner PhD, Rutgers University	Assistant Professor	epistemology, social philosophy, legal philosophy, philosophical methodology	gardiner@utk.edu
Jon Garthoff PhD, UCLA	Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	ethical theory, political philosophy, philosophy of mind	garthoff@utk.edu
Kristina Gehrman PhD, UCLA	Associate Professor	Ethics, Action Theory	kgehrma1@utk.edu
Sarah Harper PhD, Boston College	Senior Lecturer	ethical theory, bioethics, service learning	sharper6@utk.edu
Patrick Leland PhD, John Hopkins University	Lecturer	early and late modern European philosophy, with a particular focus on Kant's theoretical philosophy	pleland1@utk.edu
Dan Molter PhD, University of Utah	Lecturer	philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion	molter1@utk.edu
Margaret Moore PhD, Temple	Lecturer	Aesthetics, Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Mind	mmoor114@utk.edu
John Nolt PhD, The Ohio State University	Professor	logic, environmental philosophy, Nietzsche	nolt@utk.edu
David Palmer PhD, University of Texas	Associate Professor	metaphysics, philosophy of mind, action theory, ethics	dpalmer6@utk.edu
Matthew Pamental PhD, Indiana University	Lecturer	American Philosophy (Dewey), environmental ethics, ethics and animals	pamental@utk.edu
David Reidy PhD, University of Kansas JD, Indiana University	Professor	political philosophy, philosophy of law, history of ethics, Rawls	dreidy@utk.edu
Kevin Ryan PhD, University of Memphis	Lecturer	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Performance, and Aesthetics	kryan30@utk.edu
J. Clerk Shaw PhD, Washington University-St. Louis.	Associate Professor	ancient philosophy	jshaw15@utk.edu
Mariam Thalos PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago	Professor Department Head		mthalos@utk.edu
Sam Von Mizner PhD, University of Tennessee	Lecturer	Wittgenstein and 20th century Analytic philosophy	svonmize@utk.edu
Josh Watson PhD, Purdue University	Senior Lecturer	metaphysics, early modern philosophy	jwatso56@utk.edu
Ryan Windeknecht PhD, Keele University (UK)	Senior Lecturer Experience Learning Faculty Fellow	political philosophy	rwindekn@utk.edu

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