Faculty

Neera Badhwar (Ph.D., Toronto), Professor; Ethics, Moral Psychology, Political Philosophy, International Ethics. nbad@ou.edu

Hugh H. Benson (Ph.D., Michigan), Professor and Chair; Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology. hbenson@ou.edu

Brian Chance (Ph.D., Pennsylvania), Visiting Assistant Professor; Kant, Early Modern Philosophy. brianchance@ou.edu

Monte L. Cook (Ph.D., Iowa), Professor; History of Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics. mcook@ou.edu

Steve Ellis (Ph.D., Rutgers), Assistant Professor; Decision Theory, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics. Sooner Ally.* sellis@ou.edu

Reinaldo Elugardo (Ph.D., Western Ontario), Professor; Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language. relugardo@ou.edu

James Hawthorne (Ph.D., Minnesota), Associate Professor; Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Formal Logic, Artificial Intelligence. hawthorne@ou.edu

Sherri Irvin (Ph.D., Princeton), Associate Professor; Aesthetics, Ethics, Applied Ethics. Sooner Ally.* sirvin@ou.edu

Neal Judisch, (Ph.D., Texas), Assistant Professor; Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Action, Philosophy of Religion. neal.judisch@ou.edu

Kenneth R. Merrill (Ph.D., Northwestern), Professor Emeritus; History of Modern Philosophy, American Philosophy, Whitehead. kmerrill@ou.edu

Martin Montminy (Ph.D., Montreal), Associate Professor; Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology. montminy@ou.edu

Amy Olberding (Ph.D., Hawai'i), Assistant Professor; Chinese Philosophy, Roman Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy. aolberding@ou.edu

Jeffrey Purinton (Ph.D. in Classics, Princeton), Adjunct Lecturer; Ancient Philosophy, Ethics. jpurinton@ou.edu

Wayne D. Riggs (Ph.D., North Carolina), Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies; Epistemology, Value Theory. Sooner Ally.* wriggs@ou.edu

Edward Sankowski (Ph.D., Cornell), Professor; Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Education, Aesthetics. esankowski@ou.edu

Chris Swoyer (Ph.D., Minnesota), Professor & Affiliated Professor of Cognitive Psychology; Philosophy of Psychology & Social Science, Applied Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science. Sooner Ally.* cswoyer@ou.edu

Zev Trachtenberg (Ph.D., Columbia), Associate Professor; Social and Political Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, Rousseau. ztrachtenberg@ou.edu

Qiong Wang (Ph.D., Connecticut), Visiting Assistant Professor; Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Asian Philosophy. qiwang@ou.edu

Linda Zagzebski (Ph.D., UCLA), Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics; George Lynn Cross Research Professor; Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Epistemology. lzagzebski@ou.edu

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