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Faculty
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Sean D. Kelly
Chair
20th century French and German philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of cognitive science, Philosophy of perception, Imagination and memory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of literature |
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Peter Godfrey-Smith
Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of mind, Pragmatism (especially John Dewey), Philosophy of science, Metaphysics, Epistemology |
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Warren Goldfarb
Mathematical logic, History of analytic philosophy (particularly Frege, Russell, Carnap, Quine, and Wittgenstein [early and late]), Interrelationships of logic and philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophical logic |

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Peter Koellner
Mathematical logic, Set theory, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of physics, Early analytic philosophy, Philosophy of logic and language |
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Christine M. Korsgaard
Director of Graduate Studies
Moral philosophy and its history, Practical reason, The nature of agency, Personal identity, and Human/animal relations |
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Douglas Lavin
Ethics, Philosophy of action, History of ethics, Philosophy of law |
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Jeffrey K. McDonough
Early modern philosophy, Philosophy of science, Medieval philosophy, Contemporary metaphysics and epistemology |
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Richard Moran
Philosophy of mind, Moral psychology, The nature of testimony, Aesthetics, Philosophy of literature, later Wittgenstein
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Bernhard Nickel
Philosophy of language, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of mind. |
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Tommie Shelby
(On leave 2009-2010)
African American philosophy, Philosophical perspectives on race and racism, Social and political philosophy, Marxist social theory
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Susanna Siegel
Placement Officer
Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of language |
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Alison Simmons
Early modern philosophy, Natural philosophy, Theories of mind, Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of psychology
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Gisela Striker
(On leave Spring term)
Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy (especially epistemology and ethics), Aristotelian logic |
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Regular Visiting Faculty |
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Derek Parfit
All Souls College, Oxford
(Spring term only)
Ethics, Philosophy of mind |

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Philippe Van Parijs Université catholique de Louvain
(Spring term only, next in 2011)
Political philosophy |
Other Harvard Faculty Offering Instruction in Philosophy |
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Louis Menand
Department of English
(Spring term only) |
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Emeriti |
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Stanley Cavell
Intersection of Analytical tradition with: the Continental tradition; American philosophy; the arts; and Psychoanalysis |
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Charles D. Parsons
Mathematical logic, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of logic and language, Kant, Historical figures in the foundations of mathematics |
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Hilary Putnam
Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of natural science, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind |
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Israel Scheffler
Philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science and education |
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