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.

Full-Time Faculty

Part-Time Faculty

Emeritus

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

In Memoriam