People
The philosophy department has a distinguished faculty committed to excellence in research, teaching, and mentoring students. Philosophy department faculty contribute to the University’s core curriculum, the undergraduate major, and graduate programs. The philosophy department faculty is noted for its strengths in the history of philosophy, contemporary continental philosophy, and practical philosophy. In addition, our faculty members are actively engaged in research and teaching in the philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, social-political philosophy, Asian philosophy, and diaspora studies.
Gadamer Professors
- 2026 - Emmanuel Alloa (projected)
Université de Fribourg - 2025 - Sara Heinamaa
University of Jyväskylä, Finland - 2023, 2024, and 2025 - Jean-Luc Marion
Université Paris-Sorbonne - 2021 and 2022 - vacant due to COVID restrictions
- 2020 - Claude Romano
Université Paris-Sorbonne - 2019 - Marcia Cavalcante Schuback
Södertörn University - 2018 - Paul Moyaert
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven - 2017 - Emmanuel Falque
Institut Catholique de Paris - 2016 - Miguel Beistegui
University of Warwick - 2015 - Dermot Moran
University College Dublin - 2014 - Dan Zahavi
Københavns Universitet and University of Oxford - 2013 - Alessandro Ferrara
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - 2012 - Remi Brague
Université Paris-Sorbonne and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - 2011 - Françoise Dastur
Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis - 2010 - Jeffrey Barash
Université de Amiens - 2009 - Günter Figal
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg - 2008 - William Desmond
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven - 2007 - Jean Greisch
Institut Catholique de Paris - 2006 - Rudolf Bernet
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven