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
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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
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
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests: Kant, Phenomenology, Neo-Kantianism, Aesthetics, Perception

Jeffrey McDonough
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

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

Gina Schouten
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
Placement Director
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