Field-Of-Study: Philosophy

L. A. Paul is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Professorial Fellow in the Arché Research Centre at the University of St. Andrews. She received her undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from Antioch College and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University. Her main research interests are

Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, SUNY, and a Senior Fellow of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics. Her pioneering work interjecting questions of care and disability (especially cognitive disability) into philosophy, and her work in feminist theory have garnered a number of honors

Elijah Millgram received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1991; he taught at Princeton and Vanderbilt before joining the faculty at the University of Utah in 1999, where he is E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy.  He is the author of Practical Induction (Harvard UP, 1997), Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral

Elizabeth Anderson is John Rawls Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  A graduate of Swarthmore College (B.A., 1981), she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Harvard University in 1987, where she was a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow and winner of the Emily

Stephen Yablo is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, where he has taught since1998. He began as a logician interested in the theory of truth, and its seeming implication that no language can fully express its own semantics. A brief, strange conversation with Alfred Tarski, the father of modern truth theory, led him to

Christia Mercer is Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She specializes in the history of early modern philosophy, but her research extends to the history of Platonism, philosophical methodology, and feminism. After publishing Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Its Origin and Development (CUP) in 2001, she has become increasingly concerned to use art historical and

Linda Zagzebski is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. She was born in Southern California, educated at Stanford (B.A.), the University of California at Berkeley (M.A.), and UCLA (Ph.D.). For twenty years she taught at

Brian Copenhaver is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and History in UCLA’s Departments of Philosophy and History; he also holds the Udvar-Hazy Chair of Philosophy and History. Until June 2003, he served as a Dean or a Provost for twenty-two years, fifteen of them in the University of California and, most recently, for ten years as

R. Jay Wallace is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in moral philosophy, and his interests extend to all parts of the subject (including its history), and to such allied areas as political philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of action. His research has focused on responsibility,

Philip Pettit is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he has taught political theory and philosophy since 2002. Irish by background and training, he was a lecturer in University College, Dublin, a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of