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Faculty Directories


Core Faculty


Luvell Anderson Assistant Professor Philosophy of language, philosophy of race, semantics, ethics of racial language
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Stephan Blatti Assistant Professor & Editor, The Southern Journal of Philosophy
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Metaphysics, philosophy of mind
Pleshette DeArmitt Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Placement Contemporary continental philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, social and political thought
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Remy Debes Associate Professor Ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, Scottish Enlightenment, Hume, Adam Smith
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Melissa Ebbers Instructor & Online Coordinator Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of food
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Shaun Gallagher Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy Phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, embodiment, intersubjectivity, hermeneutics, philosophy of time
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Lucien Manning Garrett Senior Lecturer Philosophy of religion, contemporary epistemology
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Bill Lawson Distinguished Professor & Graduate Admissions Director African American philosophy, social and political philosophy
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Mary Beth Mader Associate Professor 20th-century continental philosophy, feminist theory, ontology
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Thomas Nenon Professor & Vice Provost Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German idealism, hermeneutics, philosophy of the social sciences
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Hoke Robinson Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies Kant, rationalism, history of modern philosophy
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Timothy Roche Associate Professor Greek philosophy, history of moral philosophy, ethical theory, social and political philosophy
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Kas Saghafi Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies Contemporary continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, aesthetics, and social/political philosophy
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John Tienson Professor Philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language, British empiricists
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Deborah Tollefsen Professor & Department Chair Philosophy of mind, epistemology, social ontology
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Somogy Varga Assistant Professor Philosophy of psychiatry/mind, moral psychology, social philosophy, critical theory
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Visiting Faculty and Instructors


Cheri Carr Adjunct Instructor 118 Clement Hall
901-678-4963
clcarr<at>memphis<dot>edu
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Paula Cima Adjunct Instructor 310 Clement Hall
901-678-5557
pcima<at>memphis<dot>edu
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Tamara Haywood Adjunct Instructor 118 Clement Hall
901-678-4963
thaywood<at>memphis<dot>edu
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Sheila Hollander Adjunct Instructor 310 Clement Hall
901-678-5557
shollndr<at>memphis<dot>edu
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Marda Kaiser-Rehnelt Adjunct Instructor 118 Clement Hall
901-678-4963
mkaiser<at>memphis<dot>edu
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Dale Matthew Visiting Assistant Professor & Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellow 314 Clement Hall
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Amit Sen Adjunct Instructor 312 Clement Hall
901-678-3354
amitsen<at>memphis<dot>edu
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Bryan Smyth Adjunct Professor 312 Clement Hall
901-678-3354
basmyth<at>memphis<dot>edu
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Emeritus Faculty


Gene James Emeritus Professor Value theory, applied ethics, American philosophy, philosophy of religion
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Nancy Simco Emeritus Professor Analytic philosophy, metaphysics, advanced logic
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Recent Visitors


László Tengelyi Visiting Professor
Fall 2009
20th-century continental philosophy
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Alexander Schnell Visiting Professor
Spring 2010
20th-century continental philosophy
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Ondřej Švec Visiting Professor
Spring 2011
20th-century continental philosophy, phenomenology
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Ayca Boylu Visiting Assistant Professor
2011-2012
Ethics, metaethics, moral psychology, virtue epistemology

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