Faculty & Staff

  • 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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  • Mary Kate McGowan

    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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  • Jason Miller

    Visiting Lecturer

    B.A., the College of William and Mary; Ph.D., the University of Notre Dame

    Interests in 19th century European philosophy (esp. Hegel and German Idealism), particularly the intersection of aesthetics and social and political philosophy. 

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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.

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Faculty Emeritae

  • 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. 

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