Regular Faculty
Jeff Behrends
Senior Research Scholar and Associate Senior Lecturer on Philosophy
Research Interests: Practical Normativity, Moral Epistemology, Ethics of AI
Selim Berker
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity
Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics
Cheryl Chen
Senior Lecturer on Philosophy
Faculty Dean, Dunster House
Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Religion
James Doyle
Senior Lecturer on Philosophy
Research Interests: History of Philosophy, Plato, Philosophy of Action, and Philosophy of Mind
Warren Goldfarb
Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic
Research Interests: Mathematical Logic, Development of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Logic, and Metaphysics
Edward J. Hall
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science
Zoë Johnson King
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaethics (esp. Moral Psychology)
Sean Kelly
Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy
Harvard College Professor
Faculty Dean, Dunster House
Research Interests: Post-Kantian European philosophy (esp. Phenomenology and Existentialism), Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Literature
Peter Koellner
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Samantha Matherne
Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities
Research Interests: Kant, Phenomenology, Neo-Kantianism, Aesthetics, Perception
Jeffrey McDonough
Placement Director
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Early Modern Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion
Richard Moran
Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature, later Wittgenstein
Bernhard Nickel
Department Chair
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
Parimal Patil
Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy
Research Interests: History of Philosophy in India, Buddhist Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion
Mark Richard
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
Susanna Rinard
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Formal Epistemology
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Education
Amartya Sen
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
Research Interests: Economics and Economic Theory, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Tommie Shelby
Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy
Research Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, History of Black Political Thought, Philosophy of Race, and Social Theory
Susanna Siegel
Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language
Alison Simmons
Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Early Modern Philosophy
Lucas Stanczyk
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Political Philosophy and Political Economy, Ethics, Inequality
Quinn White
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Ethics, Metaethics, Applied Ethics, Metaphysics
W. Hugh Woodin
Professor of Philosophy and of Mathematics
Research Interests: Logic and Foundations of Mathematics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Set Theory