Philosophy

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Department of Philosophy
1866 Main Mall E370
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Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z1

Tel: (604) 822-3292
Fax: (604) 822-8782

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Graduate Faculty

Scott Anderson, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Chicago).  Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy.  Office:  Buchanan E373, (604) 822-4769.  Send email.

Murat Aydede, Professor (Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park).  Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind.  Office:  Buchanan E364, (604) 822-2443.  Send email. [On leave during Fall 2011]

Roberta Ballarin, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles).  Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language.  Office:  Buchanan E363, (604) 822-6548.  Send email. [On leave during Fall 2011]

Paul Bartha [Department Head] Professor (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh).  Logic, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Science.  Office:  Buchanan E366, (604) 822-2621.  Send email.

John Beatty, Professor (Ph.D. Indiana University).  History and Philosophy of Biology, History and Philosophy of Science, Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy.  Office:  Buchanan E278, (604) 822-2444.  Send email.

Matthew Bedke, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Arizona). Ethics, Metaethics, Theories of Reasons, Philosophy of Law, Epistemology. Office: Buchanan E371, (604) 827-5099. 
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Sylvia Berryman, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Texas).  Ancient Science, Ancient Philosophy.  Office: Buchanan E269, (604) 827-5730.  Send email. [Graduate Advisor]

Michael Griffin, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Oxford University). Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Ancient Neoplatonism.  Send email.

Andrew Irvine, Professor (Ph.D. University of Sydney).  Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Political Philosophy, Bertrand Russell.  Office: Buchanan E377, (604) 822-5448.  Send email.

Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair, (Ph.D. Trinity College, Cambridge). Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the Philosophy of Logic, Language and Mathematics. Office: Buchanan E362, (604) 827-5321. Send email.

Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa [starting: July 1, 2012], Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Rutgers). Epistemology, Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy of Language. Office: Buchanan E171, (604) 822-9637. Send email.

Dominic Lopes, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar (Ph.D. Oxford University).  Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Mind.  Office:  Buchanan E367, (604) 822-5636.  Send email. [On leave during Spring 2012]

Eric Margolis, Professor (Ph.D. Rutgers). Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind. Office: Buchanan E380, (604) 827-5021.  Send email.

Christopher Mole, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Princeton). Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences, Aesthetics, Ethics. Office: Buchanan E369, (604) 827-3605.  Send email.

Adam Morton, Visiting Emeritus Professor [until July 2016]. Epistemology, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind.  Send email.

Alan Richardson, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar (Ph.D. University of Illinois, Chicago).  History and Philosophy of Science, 20th Century Philosophy, Modern Philosophy.  Office:  Buchanan E361, (604) 822-3967.  Send email.

Paul Russell, Professor (Ph.D. Cambridge University).  Ethics (and history of ethics), History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Free Will. Office: Buchanan E276, (604) 822-4939.  Send email.

Steven Savitt, Professor (Ph.D. Brandeis University).  Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics.  Office:  Buchanan E360, (604) 822-2511.  Send email.

Margaret Schabas, Professor (Ph.D. University of Toronto).  History and Philosophy of Economics, 18th and 19th Century Philosophy.  Office:  Buchanan E358, (604) 822-2820.  Send email.

Ori Simchen, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Harvard University).  Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics.  Office:  Buchanan E267, (604) 822-4657.  Send email.

Christopher Stephens, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin).  Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology.  Office:  Buchanan E356, (604) 822-6393.  Send email.

John Woods, Honorary Professor of Logic (Ph.D. University of Michigan).  Logic, History and Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Science.  Office: Buchanan E355, (604) 822-6574. 
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Permanent Instructors

Leslie Burkholder, Instructor (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology).  Logic, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Computing.  Office:  Buchanan E280, (604) 822-4836.  Send email.

Christina Hendricks, Instructor (Ph.D. University of Texas).  Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Philosophy of Education, Social and Political Philosophy.  Office:  Buchanan E375, (604) 822-2520.  Send email.