Members of the Department

CHAIR

Kneller, J.E. Professor, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1984.
Interests: Kant, the History of Late Modern and Early Romantic philosophy, aesthetics, feminist aesthetic theory.

Staff

Joycebeth Emanuel: Joycebeth.Emanuel@ColoState.EDU

Gaylene Wolfe: Gaylene.Wolfe@ColoState.EDU

Faculty

FULL TIME FACULTY

Archie A. Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Duquesne University, 2003.
Interests: History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

Cafaro, P. Associate Professor, Ph.D., Boston University, 1997.
Interests: environmental ethics, virtue ethics, public lands management, ecological sustainability

Hamid, I. Associate Professor, Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1998.
Interests: Islamic Philosophy, Cosmology, Metaphysics, and Mysticism

Kitchener, R.F. Professor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1970.
Interests: philosophy of science, especially philosophy of psychology

Losonsky, M. Professor, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1982.
Interests: metaphysics, philosophy of language, the history of modern philosophy

MacKenzie, M. Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, Manoa 2003.
Interests: Indian and Buddhist Philosophy, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.

Maffie, J. Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1988.
Interests: Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Philosophy, Epistemology, Comparative World Philosophy, Philosophy of the Sciences.

McCulloch, M.L. Assistant Professor, , Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1976. Undergraduate Studies Coordinator
Interests: philosophy of language, business ethics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of literature

McKee, P.L. Professor, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1971.
Interests: epistemology and aesthetics

McShane, K. Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002.
Interests: ethical theory, environmental ethics

Rollin, B.E. University Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972.
Interests: Animal rights, general philosophy

Sarenac, D.K. Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006.
Interests: Logic, Cognitive Science, A.I.

Tropman, E. Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Indiana University, 2006.
Interests: ethics and metaethics

Williams, R.G. Professor, , Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975.
Interests: logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, aesthetics.

EMERITI

Benson, P.J. Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Colorado University, 1971.
Interests: ethics and the history of philosophy.

Boyd, J.W. Professor Emeritus, , Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1970.
Interests: Asian studies

Crosby, D.A. Professor Emeritus, , Ph.D., Columbia, 1963.
Interests: metaphysics, American pragmatism, philosophy of nature, existentialism, philosophy of religion

Hoffert, Robert. Professor Emeritus, , Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974.
Interests: Political philosophy

Johnson, F.A. Professor Emeritus, Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1971.
Interests: logic

Jordan, R.W. Associate Professor Emeritus, M.A., New School of Social Reasearch, 1970.
Interests: value theory, philosophy in literature

Lee, G.S. Professor, Professor, Ph.D., Temple University, 1975.
Interests: East Asian philosophy and Asian Studies

Lyons, D.D. Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, 1966.
Interests: ethical theory, social and political philosophy, informal logic

Rolston III, H. University Distinguished Professor, University of Edinburgh, 1958.
Inerests: environmental ethics, philosophy of biology

SPECIAL INSTRUCTORS

CURRENT

Jo Ann Hedleston, M.A. Colorado State University, 1998.

Harold Gamble, Lecturer.

Jeffrey L. Kasser Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Interests: Philosophy of Science, Charles S. Peirce.

Linda Rollin Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1978.
Interests: Dr. Rollin’s Ph.D. is in mathematics, and she has a particular interest in logic, a subject that bridges both mathematics and philosophy.

Rick McKita, Lecturer.

Philip Turetzky Lecturer, Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1980.
Interests: problems in aesthetics, the philosophy of time, the history of philosophy, poststructuralism, and phenomenology.


 

PREVIOUS INSTRUCTORS

Marian Caudron Lecturer, Ph.D, Northwestern University, 2000.
Interests: The function of religion in human life and methods of practice in Eastern religions.

David Newman Lecturer. Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 1995.
Interests: philosophy of mind, with particular interest in the mind-body problem and free will.

Lee Speer Lecturer

VISITING FACULTY

2008/2009

2007/2008

Nigel Dower, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., T.Dhc., F.R.S.A. Visiting Professor, William E. Morgan Endowed Chair in Liberal Arts, Ph.D. Aberdeen.
Interests: ethics/philosophy of development, environment and international relations.