Resource Faculty

The members of the University of Chicago faculty listed below, while not voting members of the faculty of the Philosophy Department, all have noteworthy research interests in some area of philosophy. Each of them has been involved in the life of the Philosophy Department in a variety of ways over the past few years, co-teaching courses and seminars with Philosophy faculty, co-sponsoring philosophy workshops and conferences, participating in our joint programs, serving on departmental dissertation committees, or possibly all of the above.

To learn more about these resource faculty, click on each of their names.

Daniel Arnold (Divinity)
Buddhist Philosophy

Karlos Arregi (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language

Elizabeth Asmis (Classics)
Ancient Philosophy, especially Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

Steven Collins (South Asia Languages and Civilizations)
Buddhism, Philosophy of Religion 

Ryan Coyne (Divinity)
Philosophy of Religion, Contintental Philosophy, especially Heidegger

Lorraine Daston (Social Thought)
History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability, Early Modern Philosophy

Vincent Descombes (Social Thought)
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action, Continental Philosophy

Anastasia Giannakidou (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language

Robert Gooding-Williams (Political Science)
Nietzsche, Political Philosophy

Michael Geyer (History, Director of the Program for Human Rights)
Political Philosophy, Human Rights

Bernard E. Harcourt (Law, Political Science)
Political Theory

Kevin Hector (Divinity)
Philosophy of Religion, especially Metaphysics and Epistemology

Denis R. Hirschfeldt  (Mathematics)
Mathematical Logic

Hans Joas (Social Thought)
American Pragmatism, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Social Sciences 

Matthew Kapstein (Divinity)
Buddhist Philosophy

Chris Kennedy (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language

Gregory M. Kobele (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language

Brian Leiter (Law School)
Nietzsche, Philosophy of Law

Susanne Lüdemann (Germanic Studies)
Aesthetics, Semiotics, Derrida

Patchen Markell (Political Science)
Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy

John McCormick (Political Science)
Political Theory

Heinrich Meier (Social Thought)
Political Philosophy, Rousseau, Carl Schmidt

Jason Merchant (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language

Glenn Most (Social Thought)
Ancient Philosophy, Continental Philosophy

Sankar Muthu (Political Science)
Political Theory

Richard Neer (Art History, Cinema and Media Studies)
Philosophy of Visual Arts

Thomas Pavel (Romance Languages and Social Thought)
Aesthetics, Contemporary French Philosophy

Eric Santner (Germanic Studies & Jewish Studies)
Jewish Philosophy, German Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Jay Schleusener (English)
Philosophy and Literature

Joel Snyder (Art History)
Philosophy of Visual Arts, Theories of Pictorial Representation

William Schweiker (Divinity)
Theological Ethics, Philosophy and Literature

Robert I. Soare (Mathematics)
Mathematical Logic

Stephen Stigler (Statistics)
Philosophy of Probabiity and Statistical Inference

David Wellbery (Germanic Studies & Social Thought)
German Idealism, Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy

Christopher Wild (Germanic Studies)
Descartes, Aesthetics, German Philosophy

David Wray (Classics)
Roman Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature

Ming Xiang (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language

Linda Zerilli (Political Science)
Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy