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City University of New York Graduate Center

Permanent Faculty

Christa Acampora
Research Interests
  • Nietzsche
  • Heidegger
  • Existentialism
  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy of Sport
  • Japanese Philosophy
  • 20th-century Philosophy
Jonathan Adler
Research Interests
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Psychology
  • Informal Logic
  • Philosophy of Education
Sergei Artemov
Research Interests
  • Logic
  • Provability
  • Proofs and types
  • Modal and epistemic logics
  • Knowledge representation and artificial intelligence
Stefan Bernard Baumrin
Research Interests
  • Medical Ethics
  • Professional Ethics
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Action Theory
  • Philosophy and Economics
Alan Berger
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophical Logic
  • Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics
Jeffrey Blustein
Research Interests
  • Bioethics
  • Moral psychology
Steven M. Cahn
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Academic Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
Noël Carroll
Research Interests
  • Aesthetic theory
  • Philosophy of film
  • Philosophy of literature
  • Philosophy of the visual arts
  • Social and cultural theory
  • Philosophy of history
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of the emotions
  • History of early modern philosophy
Samir Chopra
Research Interests
  • Philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence
  • Politics and ethics of technology
  • Legal theory of artificial agents
  • Philosophy of law
  • Logical foundations of artificial intelligence
Alberto Cordero
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Physics
  • Philosophical History of Science
Omar Dahbour
Research Interests
  • International Ethics
  • Political Philoosphy
  • Ethics
  • Critical Social Theory
Michael Devitt
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Metaphysics
William Earle
Research Interests
Robert Fiengo
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Pragmatics
  • Semantics
  • Syntax
Melvin Fitting
Research Interests
  • Applications of logic to computer science and to philosophy
  • Modal Logics
  • Theory of Truth
John Greenwood
Research Interests
  • History and Philosophy of Social and Psychological Science
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
Stephen Grover
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Cosmology
  • History of Early Modern Philosophy
Virginia Held
Research Interests
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Limits on Markets
  • Group Responsibility
Tziporah Kasachkoff
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Social & Political Philosophy
  • Theoretical
  • Applied & Professional Ethics
  • The Teaching of Philosophy
Frank Kirkland
Research Interests
  • Kant
  • 19th & 20th Century European Philosophy
  • Africana Philosophy
John Kleinig
Research Interests
  • Ethics and Social Philosophy
  • Professional and Criminal Justice Ethics
Arnold Koslow
Research Interests
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics
  • Foundations of Logic
Saul Kripke
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics
  • Logic
Douglas Lackey
Research Interests
  • Ethics of War and Peace
  • Aesthetics
  • Ethics
  • History of Philosophy
Michael Levin
Research Interests
  • Gettier Problems
  • Reliabilism
  • Heritability of Racial Differences
Richard L. Mendelsohn
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Logic
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics
  • Frege
  • Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
  • Russell and Wittgenstein
Emily Michael
Research Interests
  • History of Philosophy (Early Modern, Medieval and Renaissance, Scottish)
Barbara Montero
Research Interests
  • Metaphysics (esp. Physicalism)
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Aesthetics
James Muyskens
Research Interests
  • Bioethics
  • Philosophy of Religion
Stephen Neale
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophical Logic
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Law
  • History of Analytic Philosophy
Angelica Nuzzo
Research Interests
  • German Idealism
  • Modern Philosophy and Enlightenment
  • Ethics and Political Philosophy
  • Globalization
  • Philosophy of Translation
Alex Orenstein
Research Interests
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Logic
  • Philosophy of Language
Nickolas Pappas
Research Interests
  • Ancient Philosophy (esp. Plato)
  • Aesthetics
  • 19th Century Philosophy (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud)
Rohit Parikh
Research Interests
  • Logic of Knowledge
  • Belief Revision
  • Vagueness
  • Decision Theory
  • Wittgenstein (pragmatic approaches to logic and language)
Gerald Press
Research Interests
  • History of Philosophy
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • History of Ideas
Graham Priest
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of logic
  • Paraconsistent logics
  • Dialetheism
Jesse Prinz
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of psychology
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Cognitive science
  • Consciousness
  • Moral psychology
  • Aesthetics
Rosamond Rhodes
Research Interests
  • Hobbes
  • Kant
  • Rawls
  • Aristotle
  • Bioethics
David M. Rosenthal
Research Interests
  • Philosophy of mind, especially consciousness and intentionality and sensation
  • Philosophy of language
  • Metaphysics
  • Ancient philosophy
  • 17th-Century rationalism
Steven Ross
Research Interests
  • Moral Theory
  • Political and Social Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Aesthetics
Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach
Research Interests
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Kant
  • Feminist Theory
  • Environmental Ethics
Peter Phillips Simpson
Research Interests
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Medieval Philosophy
  • Moral and Political Philosophy
Patricia Smith
Research Interests
  • Social and legal responsibility
  • Distributive Justice
  • Social Revolution
Stephen M. Spielman
Research Interests
  • Philosophical Logic
  • Probability and Evidence
  • The Foundations of Statistics
Martin Tamny
Research Interests
  • History and Philosophy of Science
Iakovos Vasiliou
Research Interests
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Moral Epistemology
  • Wittgenstein
Catherine Wilson
Research Interests
  • 17th and 18th Century History and Philosophy of Science
  • Moral and Social Theory
  • Philosophy of Literature

Visiting Faculty

Faculty Name Visiting Year
Martin Davies Regular Visitor
Richard Sorabji Regular Visitor
David Armstrong Spring 2005, Spring 2008
Chin Liew Ten Spring 2004, Spring 2002
Simon Blackburn Fall 2003, 1999, 1998
Gerald Cohen Fall 2002
Jaegwon Kim 2000, 1998, 1997
Ernest Sosa 1997
Scott Soames Spring 1997
Stephen Stich  
Jerry Fodor  

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