Core Faculty
Listed below are the Core Faculty of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Click on each of their names in order to view their individual faculty webpages. Please use the subnavigation to the left for information about other faculty who are affiliated in some way with the Department of Philosophy.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Jocelyn Benoist
Regular Visiting Professor
(Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy)
Jason Bridges
Associate Professor of Philosophy
(Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language)
On leave 2012-2013
Dan Brudney
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Admissions
(Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Bioethics and Philosophy of Religion)
Agnes Callard
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Action)
Benjamin Callard
Lecturer in Philosophy
Philosophy/MAPH Coordinator
(Ethics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology)
Ted Cohen
Professor of Philosophy
(Philosophy of Art)
James Conant
Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities
(Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, German Idealism, and History of Analytic Philosophy)
On leave 2012-2013
Kevin Davey
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director of Undergraduate Studies
(Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics)
Arnold Davidson
Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor
(Contemporary European Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Human Sciences, Philosophy of Religion)
On leave Spring 2013
David Finkelstein
Associate Professor of Philosophy
(Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind)
Anton Ford
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
(Action Theory, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy)
Michael Forster
Regular Visiting Professor
(German Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language)
Christopher Frey
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Phenomenology)
Michael Kremer
Mary R. Morton Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies
(Logic, Philosophy of Language, Early Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics)
Ben Laurence
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Human Rights)
Gabriel Richardson Lear
Professor of Philosophy
Placement Director
(Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy)
Jonathan Lear
John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor
(Philosophical Conceptions of the Human Psyche, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Kierkegaard, Ancient Philosophy)
Marko Malink
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(Ancient Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics)
Jean-Luc Marion
Greeley Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology
(Early Modern Philosophy, Contemporary Phenomenology, Philosophy of Religion)
Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor
(Law, Ethics, Human Rights, Ancient Philosophy)
On leave Autumn 2012
Robert Pippin
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor
(Kant, Hegel, Modern German Philosophy, Theories of Normativity, Self-Knowledge, Philosophy and the Arts)
On leave 2012-2013
Robert Richards
Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine
(History and Philosophy of Biology and Psychology)
Anat Schechtman
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(Early Modern Philosophy)
Bart Schultz
Lecturer in Philosophy
(Political Philosophy, Ethics)
Josef Stern
William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy
(Philosophy of Language, Medieval Philosophy)
Anubav Vasudevan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(Metaphysics & Epistemology)
Candace Vogler
David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy
Department Chair
(Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Cinema, Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies)
Malte Willer
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic)