Faculty
Name | Title | Areas of Interest | |
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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 |
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 |