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People in the Department of Philosophy

Core Faculty

Remy Debes	Associate Professor Editor, Southern Journal of Philosophy	Ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, Scottish Enlightenment, Hume, Adam Smith
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson	Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies & Pre-Law Faculty Affiliate Advisor	Political philosophy, contemporary European philosophy, genealogy, critical theory
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 Chair, Department of Philosophy	20th-century Continental philosophy, feminist theory, ontology
Michael Monahan	Associate Professor Director of Placement	Social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, phenomenology
Thomas Nenon	Professor Dean, College of Arts & Sciences	Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German idealism, hermeneutics, philosophy of the social sciences
Timothy Roche	Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	Greek and Roman Philosophy, history of philosophy, ethical theory, logic
Kas Saghafi	Associate Professor	Contemporary Continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, aesthetics, and social/political philosophy
Lindsey Stewart	Assistant Professor	African American philosophy, Black feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy
Deborah Tollefsen	Professor Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences	Philosophy of mind, epistemology, social ontology
Somogy Varga	Associate Professor Director of Graduate Admissions	Philosophy of mind/psychiatry, philosophy of science, moral psychology, and social philosophy

Visiting Scholars

Ricardo Mejía Fernandez	Assistant Professor, PhD Candidate, University of Salamanca, Spain	Fall 2018. Working on the philosophy of Francisco Varela.
Roy Dings	PhD Candidate, Radboud University, Netherlands	Fall 2018. Working on the phenomenology and ethics of deep brain stimulation.
Mindaugas Briedis	Assistant Professor, Values Laboratory, Institute of Humanities, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania	2017-2018. Baltic-American Freedom Foundation Fellow. Prof. Briedis is a phenomenologist who is doing research on the practice of radiology, coordinating with researchers at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine.
Denis Francesconi	Professor of Sports Education, University of Verona, Italy	Spring 2018. Prof. Francesconi is working on the phenomenology of athletic performance.
Allesandro Salice	Professor of Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland	Spring 2018. Visiting Humboldt Fellow. Prof. Salice is working on the phenomenology of performance.

Visiting Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Instructors

Joshua Felix	Adjunct Instructor	312 Clement Hall jwfelix@memphis.edu
L. Manning Garrett	Senior Lecturer	319 Varnell-Jones (Lambuth campus) glmnning@memphis.edu
Marda Kaiser- Rehnelt	Adjunct Instructor	312 Clement Hall mkaiser@memphis.edu
Amit Sen	Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor	339B Clement Hall amitsen@memphis.edu
Daniel J. Smith	Visiting Assistant Professor	323 Clement Hall D.J.smith@memphis.edu
Kevin Taylor	Instructor and Online Coordinator	309E 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

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