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Philosophy Faculty of The Claremont Colleges

	Jay Atlas Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics
Research Interests:	Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Pragmatics of Language
Example Courses:	LGCS 107 Pragmatics LGCS 175 Seminar in Cognitive Science PHIL 60 Logic PHIL 185M Topics in Language and Mind


	Tad Beckman Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Research Interests:	History of Western philosophy, Environmental philosophy, Native American studies, Photography


	Susan Castagnetto Coordinator of Intercollegiate Women's Studies of the Claremont Colleges & Lecturer in Philosophy
Research Interests:	Feminist Epistemology, Feminist Ethics, Free Will & Responsibility, Criminal Justice, Feminist Activism, The Scottish Enlightenment
Example Courses:	Philosophy of Feminism Feminist Ethics Feminism & Science Topics in Philosophy of Feminism Modern Philosophy Responsibility & Punishment


	N. Ann Davis McConnell Professor of Human Relations
Research Interests:	Bioethics, Ethics, Evil, Morality, Abortion Debate
Example Courses:	PHIL 37 Practical Ethics PHIL 38 Bioethics PHIL 185B Topics in Moral Philosophy PHIL 185D Evil and Good


	Stephen T. Davis Russell K Pitzer Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	History of philosophy (ancient)
Example Courses:	Philosophy of religion


	Patricia Easton Associate Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	History of modern philosophy, particularly the philosophy of René Descartes and the Cartesians of the seventeenth century.


	Stephen A. Erickson E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Heidegger, European Thought, Crises in Contemporary, Value Systems, The Future of Human Spirituality, Historical roots and contemporary meaning of terrorism. Medicine's role in enhancing and/or altering human identity, The intersection of religion and culture in our time.
Example Courses:	PHIL 3 Philosophy Through Its History PHIL 4 Philosophy in Literature PHIL 43 Continental Thought PHIL 185E Self, Language, and Imagination PHIL 186E Heidegger and the Tradition


	Paul E. Hurley Profile from Pomona College Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Ethics, Meta-ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Example Courses:	PHIL 32 Ethical Theory PHIL 33 Social and Political Philosophy PHIL 34 Philosophy of Law PHIL 160 Freedom, Markets, and Well-Being PHIL 185P Topics in Value Theory


	Brian L. Keeley Associate Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science, Neuroethology of Animal Behavior
Example Courses:	Phil 30: Intro to Knowledge, Mind & Existence Phil 103: Philosophy of Science Phil 123: Perspectives on Mind & Brain Phil 55: Philosophy of Art
Spring 2006 Courses:	Phil 30: Intro to Knowledge, Mind & Existence Phil 103: Philosophy of Science NS 95: Foundations of Neuroscience


	Amy Kind Associate Professor
Research Interests:	Philosophy of Mind, especially issues relating to consciousness, qualia, and the imagination
Example Courses:	Philosophy 135: Philosophy of Mind Philosophy 145: Logic ID 196: Philosophy Through Science Fiction


	Clark A. Kucheman Arthur V. Stoughton Prof. of Christian Ethics
Example Courses:	RLST 41: Morality and Religion Phil 101 Political and Social Philosophy


	Peter Kung Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics
Example Courses:	Phil 80: Philosophy of Mind Phil 185L: Advanced Seminar: Conceivability and Possibility


	Richard D. McKirahan Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Ancient Greece, Greek Gods, Greek Literature, Greek Language, Ancient Philosophy
Example Courses:	CLAS 64 Gods, Humans, and Justice in Ancient Greece PHIL 5 Gods, Humans, and Justice in Ancient Greece PHIL 40 Ancient Philosophy


	Myra E. Moss Professor


	Suzanne Obdrzalek Assistant Professor
Research Interests:	Plato's Moral Psychology, Ancient Skepticism


	Alex Rajczi Assistant Professor
Research Interests:	Moral progress, Morality in the face of uncertainty
Example Courses:	Ethical Theory Political Philosophy Aesthetics of Literature Applied Ethics, including Bioethics Philosophy of Education Personal Morality


Research Interests:	John K. Roth Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
Example Courses:	Holocaust studies American studies Religious studies


	Dion Scott-Kakures Mary W. and J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests	Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy and Neuroscience
Example Courses:	Philosophy of Mind Foundations of Neuroscience Responsibility, Guilt and the Person Temptation and the Will Knowledge, Mind and Existence Philosophy of the Social Sciences Introduction to Philosophy


	Frederick Sontag Robert C. Denison Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Existentialism, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Theology
Example Courses:	PHIL 36 Philosophies of Liberation and Revolution PHIL 41 Medieval Philosophy PHIL 45 Metaphysical Systems PHIL 52 Philosophy of Religion PHIL 53 Philosophical Psychology PHIL 54 Existentialism PHIL 63 Aspects of Russian Philosophy


	Peter Thielke Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Kant, History of Modern Philosophy I work primarily in the history of philosophy, with an emphasis on Kant and German Idealism, as well as the rationalist and empiricist traditions leading up to Kant. I'm also interested in epistemology and aesthetics.
Example Courses:	PHIL 37 History of Aesthetics PHIL 42 Modern Philosophy PHIL 186H Topics in History of Modern PHIL 186K Kant


	Rivka Weinberg Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Ethics, particularly procreative ethics, Bioethics, Theories of moral obligation, Metaphysics of birth and death.
Example Courses:	Ethical Theory Ethics of the Beginning and End of Life Political Philosophy Death


	Darryl Wright Associate Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	History of ethicsm, Moral & political philosophy


	Masahiro Yamada Assistant Professor of Philosophy, CGU
Research Interests:	Action Theory, Theory of Concepts, Epistemology, Ethics/Meta-Ethics
Courses:	TBA


	Charles Young Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:	Ancient Greek philosophy (especially ancient Greek ethics), Logic, Ethics


	Philip Clayton Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests:	Theory of knowledge, History of philosophy and theology, Philosophy of science, Physics, evolutionary biology & the neurosciences, Comparative theology, Constructive metaphysics

Last updated October 30, 2006

Philosophy Faculty of The Claremont Colleges