People in the Department of Philosophy
Core Faculty
Assistant Professor |
Phenomenology, Ontology, German and French philosophy (Kant to present), Heidegger, Deleuze, German Idealism |
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Associate Professor |
Ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, Scottish Enlightenment, Hume, Adam Smith |
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Moss Professor of Philosophy |
Phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, embodiment, intersubjectivity, hermeneutics |
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Assistant Professor |
Philosophy of race and racism, philosophy of psychology, African American philosophy, philosophy of mind |
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Professor |
20th-century Continental philosophy, feminist theory, ontology |
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Associate Professor |
Social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, phenomenology |
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Professor |
Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German idealism, hermeneutics, philosophy of the social sciences |
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Associate Professor |
Greek and Roman Philosophy, history of philosophy, ethical theory, logic |
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Associate Professor |
Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Aesthetics, and Social/Political Philosophy |
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Assistant Professor |
Kant and German idealism, Contemporary Continental Philosophy (esp. Foucault, Deleuze), Philosophy and the Life Sciences, Philosophy of History |
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Assistant Professor |
African American philosophy, Black feminist philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy |
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Professor |
Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Social Ontology |
Visiting Scholars
Sofie Boldsen |
PhD student in the Psychology Department, University of Copenhagen |
Fall 2019. Social interaction in autism |
Giovanni Pennisi |
PhD student in Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Sicily |
Fall 2019. Psychopathology and representation |
Anita Avramides |
Professor of Philosophy, Oxford |
Fall 2019. Author of Other Minds (2001, Routledge); Editor. of Knowing Other Minds (2019, OUP) |
Anna Ciaunica |
Professor of Philosophy, University College, London; University of Porto |
Fall 2019. Works with neuroscientists, artists & clinical psychologists on empathy and social cognition |
Jessica Lindblom |
Professor of Cognitive Science, Skövde University, Sweden |
Fall 2019. Applications related to robotics |
Dina Mendonça |
Professor of Philosophy, New University of Lisbon |
Fall 2019. Emotion in social cognition and pragmatism |
Visiting Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Instructors
L. Manning Garrett |
Senior Lecturer |
319 Varnell-Jones (Lambuth campus) |
Adjunct Instructor |
310 Clement Hall |
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Instructor |
309E Clement Hall |
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Sıla Özkara |
Adjunct Instructor |
sozkara@memphis.edu |
Amit Sen |
Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor |
339B Clement Hall |
Instructor and Online Coordinator |
309D Clement Hall |
Emeritus and Deceased Faculty
Associate Professor |
Contemporary Continental philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, social and political thought |
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Emeritus Professor |
Value theory, applied ethics, American philosophy, philosophy of religion |
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Emeritus Professor |
African American philosophy, social and political philosophy |
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Emeritus Professor |
Kant, rationalism, history of modern philosophy |
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Emeritus Professor |
Analytic philosophy, metaphysics, advanced logic |
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Emeritus Professor |
Philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language, British empiricists |