Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Barry M. Loewer, Davison Hall, Douglass Campus (732/932-9181)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Frank Arntzenius, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., London School of Economics
Philosophy of science; metaphysics; philosophy of physics
Martha Bolton, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
Early modern philosophy
Robert H. Bolton, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
Ancient philosophy; philosophy of language; metaphysics
Martin R. Bunzl, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Minnesota
Philosophy of science
Ruth Chang, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB/SL-C; J.D., Harvard; D.Phil., Oxford Philosophy of law; ethics
Frances Egan, Associate Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Western Ontario
Philosophy of psychology; philosophy of mind; philosophy of science
Jerry A. Fodor, State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Philosophy of mind; cognitive psychology
Alvin Goldman, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Epistemology; metaphysics; philosophy of mind; cognitive science; evidence and law
John Hawthorne, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Syracuse
Metaphysics; epistemology; language; mind; Leibniz
Douglas N. Husak, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., J.D., Ohio State
Philosophy of law; social and political philosophy; ethics
Peter Kivy, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Aesthetics; early modern philosophy
Peter D. Klein, Chairperson and Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Epistemology
Ernest P. Lepore, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Minnesota
Philosophy of language
Brian Loar, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; D.Phil., Oxford Philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; metaphysics
Barry M. Loewer, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Philosophy of science; logic; philosophy of mind
Robert Matthews, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Philosophy of psychology and language; theoretical psycholinguistics
Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Philosophy of science; ancient philosophy; epistemology
Howard McGary, Jr., Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Minnesota
Social and political philosophy; ethics; Afro-American philosophy
Colin McGinn, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; B.Phil., Oxford
Philosophy of mind; metaphysics; Wittgenstein
Brian P. McLaughlin, Chairperson and Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., North Carolina
Metaphysics; epistemology; philosophy of mind
Jefferson McMahan, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cambridge Ethics, personal identity
Stephen Neale, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford Logic; philosophy of language
Derek Parfit, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; M.A. Oxford Ethics; philosophy of mind
Theodore Sider, Associate Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts (Amherst) Metaphysics; philosophy of language
Holly Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Executive Dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Graduate School-New Brunswick; Ph.D.,
Michigan Normative ethics; metaethics; biomedical ethics
Ernest Sosa, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University, and Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Epistemology; metaphysics
Jason Stanley, Associate Professor of
Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language; logic; epistemology; early analytic philosophy
Stephen P. Stich, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Epistemology; philosophy of psychology
Larry Temkin, Professor
of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton Normative ethics, metaethics,
social and political philosophy
Simon Thomas, Professor of Mathematics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., London Model theory; infinite groups
Bruce Wilshire, Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., New York
Aesthetics; American philosophy; phenomenology and existentialism
Dean Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Brown Metaphysics; philosophy of religion
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Mark Baker, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Syntax; syntax-semantics interface
Dennis Patterson, Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy, SL-C;
Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo) Philosophy of law; language; Wittgenstein
Pierre Pellegrin, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, FAS-NB; Professor of Philosophy, CREA (France); Ph.D., Paris I
Ancient philosophy
Kenneth J. Safir, Professor of Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Learnability theory
Andrew von Hirsch, Professor of Criminal Justice, SCJ; LL.B., Harvard
Philosophy of criminal law; criminal sentencing theory and policy
Robert L. Woolfolk, Professor of Psychology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Behavioral therapy
