Faculty & Staff
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Helena de Bres
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Victoria University; M.A., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researches and teaches political and moral philosophy, with a focus on questions of distributive justice in global politics.
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Corinne A. Gartner
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Works on ancient Greek philosophy, with emphasis on ancient ethics and moral psychology.
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Eugene Marshall
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Avid teacher and historian of modern philosophy studying Spinoza, Cavendish, and the 17th Century.
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Erich Hatala Matthes
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Researches and teaches moral and political philosophy, environmental ethics, heritage ethics, and philosophy of art.
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Mary Kate McGowan
Luella LaMer Professor of Women's Studies; Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of metaphysics, philosophy of language and law; also teaches logic and various seminars.
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Alison G. McIntyre
Virginia Onderdonk ’29 Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Main interests: philosophy of mind, moral theory, the history of moral philosophy, especially 18th-century British moral psychology.
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Ifeanyi A. Menkiti
Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Pomona College; M.S., Columbia University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Harvard University
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Catherine Wearing
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.
Faculty Emerita
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Maud Chaplin
Professor Emerita of Philosophy
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Ann Congleton
Professor Emerita of Philosophy
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Emerita of the history of philosophy, particularly Plato and Aristotle and feminist theory.
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Ruth Anna Putnam
Professor Emerita of Philosophy
B.Sc. U.C.L.A., Ph.D. U.C.L.A.
As an undergraduate Chemistry major, she fell in love with Philosophy of Science and later turned to other areas of Philosophy.








