Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Jeffrey King, Davison Hall, Douglass Campus (732-932-9861, ext. 115)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Martha Bolton, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Early modern philosophy

Robert H. Bolton, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Ancient philosophy; philosophy of language; metaphysics

Martin R. Bunzl, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Philosophy of science

Ruth Chang, Associate Professor of Philosophy, SAS/SL-C; J.D., Harvard; D.Phil., Oxford (UK)
Philosophy of law; ethics

Alan Code, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Ancient Greek philosophy; metaphysics

Frances Egan, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Western Ontario (Canada)
Philosophy of psychology; philosophy of mind; philosophy of science

Jerry A. Fodor, State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Philosophy of mind; cognitive psychology

James Griffin, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, SAS; D.Phil., Oxford (UK)
Moral and political philosophy

John Hawthorne, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Syracuse
Metaphysics; epistemology; language; mind; Leibniz

Douglas N. Husak, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., J.D., Ohio State
Philosophy of law; social and political philosophy; ethics

Jeffrey King, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Philosophy of language; formal semantics; philosophical logic

Peter Kivy, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Aesthetics; early modern philosophy

Peter D. Klein, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Epistemology

Ernest P. Lepore, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Philosophy of language

Martin Lin, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Early modern philosophy

Brian Loar, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; D.Phil., Oxford (UK)
Philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; metaphysics

Barry M. Loewer, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Philosophy of science; logic; philosophy of mind

Robert Matthews, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Philosophy of psychology and language; theoretical psycholinguistics

Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Philosophy of science; ancient philosophy; epistemology

Howard McGary Jr., Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Social and political philosophy; ethics; African-American philosophy

Brian P. McLaughlin, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., North Carolina
Metaphysics; epistemology; philosophy of mind

Jefferson McMahan, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Cambridge
Ethics; personal identity

Derek Parfit, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, SAS; M.A., Oxford (UK)
Ethics; philosophy of mind

Holly Smith, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Normative ethics; metaethics; biomedical ethics

Ernest Sosa, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Epistemology; metaphysics

Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language; logic; epistemology; early analytic philosophy

Stephen P. Stich, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Epistemology; philosophy of psychology

Larry Temkin, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Normative ethics; metaethics; social and political philosophy

Brian Weatherson, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Monash (Australia)
Epistemology; philosophy of language

Bruce Wilshire, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Aesthetics; American philosophy; phenomenology and existentialism

Dean Zimmerman, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Metaphysics; philosophy of religion

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Mark Baker, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Syntax; syntax-semantics interface

Sheldon Goldstein, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Yeshiva
Foundations of quantum mechanics and foundations of statistics

Dennis Patterson, Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy, SL-C; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Philosophy of law; language; Wittgenstein

Kenneth J. Safir, Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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