Faculty

 

Regular Faculty

Jeff Behrends portrait

Jeff Behrends
Senior Research Scholar and Associate Senior Lecturer on Philosophy
Research Interests: Practical Normativity, Moral Epistemology, Ethics of AI

 
selim berker

Selim Berker
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity
Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics

 
cheryl chen

Cheryl Chen
Senior Lecturer on Philosophy
Faculty Dean, Dunster House
Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Religion

 
jimmy doyle

James Doyle
Senior Lecturer on Philosophy
Research Interests: History of Philosophy, Plato, Philosophy of Action, and Philosophy of Mind

 
warren goldfarb

Warren Goldfarb
Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic
Research Interests: Mathematical Logic, Development of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Logic, and Metaphysics

 
ned hall

Edward J. Hall
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

 
Zoe Johnson King portrait

Zoë Johnson King
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaethics (esp. Moral Psychology)

 
sean kelly

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

Peter Koellner
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, and the Philosophy of Mathematics

 
samantha matherne

Samantha Matherne
Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities
Research Interests: Kant, Phenomenology, Neo-Kantianism, Aesthetics, Perception

 
jeff mcdonough

Jeffrey McDonough
Placement Director
Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests: Early Modern Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion

 
richard moran

Richard Moran
Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature, later Wittgenstein

 
bernhard nickel

Bernhard Nickel
Department Chair
Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

 
parimal patil

Parimal Patil
Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy
Research Interests: History of Philosophy in India, Buddhist Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion

 
mark richard

Mark Richard
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology

 
susanna rinard

Susanna Rinard
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Formal Epistemology

 
Gina SchoutenGina Schouten
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Education
 
amartya sen

Amartya Sen
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
Research Interests: Economics and Economic Theory, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

 
tommie shelby

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

Susanna Siegel
Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language

 
alison simmons

Alison Simmons
Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Early Modern Philosophy

 
Lucas Stanczyk

Lucas Stanczyk
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Political Philosophy and Political Economy, Ethics, Inequality

 
Quinn White portrait

Quinn White
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:
Ethics, Metaethics, Applied Ethics, Metaphysics

 
hugh woodin

W. Hugh Woodin
Professor of Philosophy and of Mathematics
Research Interests:
Logic and Foundations of Mathematics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Set Theory

 
 
 

Affiliated Faculty

Danielle AllenDanielle Allen
James Bryant Conant University Professor
 
Eric Beerbohm

Eric Beerbohm
Professor of Government

 
gennaro chierchia

Gennaro Chierchia
Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics

 
khaled el-rouayheb

Khaled El-Rouayheb
Professor of Islamic Intellectual History
Research Interests: Arabic Philosophy, Islamic Philosophical Theology, History of Logic

 
peter galison

Peter Galison
Joseph Pellegrino University Professor
Research Interests: History and Philosophy of Physics, History and Philosophy of Environment, Theoretical approaches to History of Science

 
peter gordon

Peter E. Gordon
Amabel B. James Professor of History
Research Interests: Critical Theory, the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Habermas), Existentialism, Modern French and German Social Thought

 
mathias risse

Mathias Risse
Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy

 
michael rosen

Michael Rosen
Professor of Government
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Kant, German Idealism, Marx and Marxism, Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy (especially German)

 
stuart shieber

Stuart Shieber
James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science

 
 
 

Associated Faculty

Jacob Barandes portrait

Co-Director of Graduate Studies for Physics; Lecturer on Physics
Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics

 

 

 

Lecturers and Postdoctoral Fellows

Remei Capdevila WerningRemei Capdevila Werning portrait
Lecturer on Philosophy
Allston Burr Resident Dean of Harvard College, Winthrop House
Research interests: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Architecture, Philosophical issues of Preservation and Geoheritage    
 
shield imageCamila Hernandez Flowerman
Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS
 
KopecMatthew Kopec
Program Director and Lecturer, Embedded EthiCS
Research interests: Applied Ethics, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and Technology
 
Mariana NoeMariana Beatriz Noé
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Research interests: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, History of Philosophy
 
Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS
 
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS
 
seth robertson

Seth Robertson
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Lecturer in Philosophy

Research interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology, History of Ethics, and Early Chinese Philosophy

 

 

Emeritus/a Faculty

christine korsgaard

Christine M. Korsgaard
Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Moral Philosophy and its history, Practical Reason, Agency, Personal Identity, and Human/Animal Relations

 
charles parsons

Charles Parsons
Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
Research Interests: Mathematical Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Logic and Language

 
tim scanlon

Thomas M. Scanlon
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus
Research Interests: Ethics, History of Ethics, Theories of Justice and Equality, and Political Philosophy

 
gisela striker

Gisela Striker
Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics, Emerita
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Hellenistic Philosophy, Aristotelian Logic