The members of the University of Chicago faculty listed below, while not voting members of the faculty of the Department of Philosophy, all have noteworthy research interests in some area of philosophy. Each of them has been involved in the life of the Department in a variety of ways, including co-teaching courses and seminars with Philosophy faculty, co-sponsoring philosophy workshops and conferences, participating in our joint programs, serving on departmental dissertation committees, and advising philosophy BA theses. The links below lead to the homepages of these resource faculty.
To learn more about these affiliated, 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
Chiara Cordelli (Political Science)
Contemporary Analytical Political Theory
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
Adom Getachew (Political Science)
History of Political Thought, International Law, Post-Colonial Political Theory
Anastasia Giannakidou (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language
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
Demetra Kasimis (Political Science)
Democratic Theory, Thought and Politics of Classical Greece
Chris Kennedy (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language
Irad Kimhi (John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought)
Continental Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics
Matthew Landauer (Political Science)
Classical Political Thought
Benjamin Laurence (Human Rights)
Political Philosophy
Brian Leiter (Law School)
Nietzsche, Philosophy of Law
John McCormick (Political Science)
Political Theory
Heinrich Meier (Social Thought)
Political Philosophy, Rousseau, Carl Schmidt
Jason Merchant (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language
Daniel Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies)
Film Theory, Philosophy of Visual Arts, Modernism and Realism in the Arts
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, Philosophy and Literature
Joel Snyder (Art History)
Philosophy of Visual Arts, Theories of Pictorial Representation
William Schweiker (Divinity)
Theological Ethics, Philosophy and Literature
Stephen Stigler (Statistics)
Philosophy of Probabiity and Statistical Inference
Nathan Tarcov (Political Science and Social Thought)
History of Political Theory
David Wellbery (Germanic Studies & Social Thought)
German Idealism, Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy
Christopher Wild (Germanic Studies)
Descartes, Aesthetics, German Philosophy
James Lindley Wilson (Political Science)
Political Philosophy, Ethics, and Law
David Wray (Classics)
Roman Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature
Ming Xiang (Linguistics)
Philosophy of Language
Linda Zerilli (Political Science)
Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy