People in the Department of Philosophy

Core Faculty

James Bahoh	Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	Phenomenology, Ontology, German and French philosophy (Kant to present), Heidegger, Deleuze, German Idealism
Remy Debes	Professor Chair, Department of Philosophy Co-Editor, Southern Journal of Philosophy	Ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, Scottish Enlightenment, Hume, Adam Smith
Shaun Gallagher	Moss Professor of Philosophy	Phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, embodiment, intersubjectivity, hermeneutics
David Miguel Gray	Assistant Professor	Philosophy of race and racism, philosophy of psychology, African American philosophy, philosophy of mind
Mary Beth Mader	Professor Co-Editor, Southern Journal of Philosophy	20th-century Continental philosophy, feminist theory, ontology
Michael Monahan	Professor Director of Graduate Admissions	Social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, phenomenology
Thomas Nenon	Professor	Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German idealism, hermeneutics, philosophy of the social sciences
Timothy Roche	Associate Professor	Greek and Roman Philosophy, history of philosophy, ethical theory, logic
Kas Saghafi	Associate Professor Interim Director of Graduate Studies	Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Aesthetics, and Social/Political Philosophy
Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou	Assistant Professor	Black Feminist Philosophy, African American Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Immanuel Kant (Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Race)
Daniel J. Smith	Assistant Professor Director of Graduate Placement	Kant and German idealism, Contemporary Continental Philosophy (esp. Foucault, Deleuze), Philosophy and the Life Sciences, Philosophy of History
Lindsey Stewart	Associate Professor	African American philosophy, Black feminist philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy
Deborah Tollefsen	Professor Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate School	Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Social Ontology

Visiting Scholars

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Sara Incao	PhD student, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Center for Human Technologies, Genova, Italy	Spring-Fall 2023. Topic: Cognitive Institutions
Dr. V. Metin Demir	Bursa Uludag University, Turkey	Fall 2023-Spring 2024. Topic: Hegel and embodied cognition

Visiting Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Instructors

L. Manning Garrett	Associate Professor of Teaching	319 Varnell-Jones (Lambuth campus) glmnning@memphis.edu
Marda Kaiser- Rehnelt	Adjunct Instructor	310 Clement Hall mkaiser@memphis.edu
Salman Khawaja	Adjunct Instructor	Salman.Khawaja@memphis.edu
Sıla Özkara	Assistant Professor of Teaching Pre-Law Advisor	309E Clement Hall sozkara@memphis.edu Office hours: By appointment.
Amit Sen	Assistant Professor of Teaching Undergraduate Advisor	339B Clement Hall amitsen@memphis.edu
Jessica Soester	Adjunct Instructor	314 Clement Hall jcsester@memphis.edu
Kevin Taylor	Assistant Professor of Teaching Director of Religious Studies Online Coordinator	309D Clement Hall kctylor3@memphis.edu

Emeritus and Deceased Faculty

Pleshette DeArmitt	Associate Professor	Contemporary Continental philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, social and political thought
Gene James	Emeritus Professor	Value theory, applied ethics, American philosophy, philosophy of religion
Bill Lawson	Emeritus Professor	African American philosophy, social and political philosophy
Hoke Robinson	Emeritus Professor	Kant, rationalism, history of modern philosophy
Nancy Simco	Emeritus Professor	Analytic philosophy, metaphysics, advanced logic
John Tienson	Emeritus Professor	Philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language, British empiricists