Faculty

Dominic Bailey

Dominic Bailey

Associate Professor
PhD, Cambridge, 2004. Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy.
David Boonin

David Boonin

Professor
PhD, Pittsburgh, 1992. Applied Ethics, Ethics, History of Ethics (especially Hobbes).
Garrett Bredeson

Garrett Bredeson

Teaching Assistant Professor • Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, Vanderbilt, 2014. Kant, Continental Philosophy, Enlightenment Philosophy
Carol Cleland

Carol Cleland

Professor
PhD, Brown, 1981. Philosophy of Geoscience, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic.
Heather Demarest

Heather Demarest

Assistant Professor • Chair, Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science
PhD, Rutgers, 2013. Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics
Iskra Fileva

Iskra Fileva

Associate Professor • Associate Director, Center for Values and Social Policy
PhD, Boston University, 2009. Ethics, Moral Psychology.
Chris Heathwood

Chris Heathwood

Associate Professor • Director of Graduate Studies
PhD, UMass, 2005. Ethics, especially well-being and metaethics, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics.
Michael Huemer

Michael Huemer

Professor
PhD, Rutgers, 1998. Epistemology, Ethics, Metaethics, Political Philosophy.
Daniel Jacobson

Daniel Jacobson

Bruce D. Benson Professor of Philosophy • Director, Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization
BA Yale, PhD Michigan. Ethics, moral psychology, aesthetics, Mill
Dan Kaufman

Dan Kaufman

Associate Professor
PhD, UMass, 2000. Early Modern, Metaphysics, Medieval.
Zak Kopeikin

Zak Kopeikin

Teaching Assistant Professor
MA program, later PhD program; BA University of California Santa Barbara, 2013, PhD University of Colorado Boulder, 2020
Mitzi Lee

Mitzi Lee

Associate Professor • MA Advisor
PhD, Harvard, 1996. Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy.
Alastair Norcross

Alastair Norcross

Professor • Director, Center for Values and Social Policy
PhD, Syracuse, 1991. Ethics, Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy.
Graham Oddie

Graham Oddie

Professor
PhD, London, 1979. Metaphysics, Value Theory, Metaethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Logic.
Robert Pasnau

Robert Pasnau

Professor • College Professor of Distinction
PhD, Cornell, 1994. Mind and Knowledge, especially in the medieval and early modern periods.
Jason Potter

Jason Potter

Teaching Assistant Professor
PhD, Colorado 2000. History of early modern philosophy, Kant, Aesthetics, History of Ancient Philosophy, Early Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, American Pragmatism.
Rob Rupert

Robert Rupert

Professor • Chair
PhD, Illinois-Chicago, 1996. Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology
Raul Saucedo

Raul Saucedo

Assistant Professor
PhD, Cornell, 2009. Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Science.
Ted Shear

Ted Shear

Teaching Assistant Professor
PhD University of California Davis, 2017
Vishnu Sridharan

Vishnu Sridharan

Assistant Professor • Affiliate Faculty Member, Law School
PhD, USC, 2022; JD, Stanford Law School, 2009. Decision theory, normative ethics, and philosophy of law
Julia Staffel

Julia Staffel

Associate Professor
PhD University of Southern California, 2013. Epistemology
Matthias Steup

Matthias Steup

Professor
Ph.D. Brown, 1985. Epistemology, skepticism, perceptual justification
Brian Talbot

Brian Talbot

Assistant Professor • Honors Council Representative
PhD, University of Southern California 2009. AOS: Epistemology, ethics, political/legal philosophy
Ajume Wingo

Ajume Wingo

Associate Professor
PhD, Wisconsin, 1997. Social and Political Philosophy, African Philosophy, Aesthetics.
David Youkey

David Youkey

Teaching Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Colorado Boulder. Applied ethics

Librarian

Frederick Carey

Frederick Carey

Assistant Professor - History & Philosophy Librarian
Freddy is the History & Philosophy Librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned his MLIS from the University of Denver, and received a BA in Philosophy with minors in Medieval & Byzantine Studies and Theology & Religious Studies from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Freddy is currently curating a collection that highlights the contributions of female philosophers throughout the history of philosophy, and aims to...

Tenured and Tenure-Track Philosophers in other departments

Allan Franklin

Allan Franklin

Professor Emeritus
Physics
Research Interests : The history and philosophy of science, with particular emphasis on the role of experiment in physics.
Benjamin Hale

Benjamin Hale

Associate Professor
Environmental Studies
PhD, Stony Brook, 2004; MPA, Arizona, 1997. Environmental Ethics, Bioethics, Public Policy and Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethical Theory.

Lecturers

Michael Bevan

Michael Bevan

I am currently completing a DPhil at the University of Oxford under Tim Williamson and Alex Paseau, working on the logic and metaphysics of necessity. Before this I did a BPhil in Philosophy at Oxford and a BA in Philosophy at the University of Reading.
Eric Brown

Eric Brown

PhD Tulane University 2020. AOS: Ethics (emphasis on moral responsibility) and Social and Political Philosophy
Tim Burkhardt

Tim Burkhardt

PhD Duke University (2020). Area of specialization: applied ethics

Andrew Greetis

PhD University of Utah (2019). Areas of interest: social and political philosophy
Wayne Hardaker

Wayne "Nick" Hardaker

BA, MA in Philosophy at CU Boulder, PhD in Philosophy & Comparative Asian Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco.
Derick Hughes

Derick Hughes

BA, Cal Poly Pomona; PhD, University of Colorado Boulder
Hye-Ryoung Kang

Hye-Ryoung Kang

PhD Colorado, 2007. AOS: Social and Political Philosophy (with special emphasis on Global Justice and Human Rights), Feminist Philosophy, Ethics
Yong Dou (Michael) Kim

Yong Dou (Michael) Kim

Michael has taught for several universities and works primarily in Continental philosophy, with an emphasis on contemporary French thought, as well as social and political philosophy.
Benjamin Kultgen

Benjamin Kultgen

PhD CU Boulder 2018. Areas of interest: Ethics, Metaphysics
Julia Levin

Julia Levin

BA Hiram College, PhD Penn State University
Shane Melnitzer

Shane Melnitzer

PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, 2020. Areas of interest: meta-ethics, ethics, and action.
Caleb Pickard

Caleb Pickard

BS, Philosophy and Economics, University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2011, PhD CU Boulder; Areas of interest: Applied Ethics (particularly Consumer Ethics), Value Theory, History of Philosophy - Ancient, Logic

Matthew Pike

PhD program; BA, University of Colorado, Denver, 2001; MA, University of Colorado at Boulder (enrolled 2007-8); Research interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosophy of Science and Mathematics
Joseph Wilson

Joseph Wilson

PhD 2020; BA, University of California Berkeley 2010

Graduate Students

Brita Ager-Hart

PhD program; BA philosophy, politics, and economics Carroll University 2018, MA philosophy UW-Milwaukee 2021
Amir Ajalloeian

Amirhossein Ajalloeian

PhD program; B.Sc. Isfahan Univerisity of Technology, M.Sc. Isfahan University of Technology, M.Sc. University of Colorado Boulder. Areas of interest: Formal Epistemology, Decision Theory, Game Theory, Philosophy of Science
Daniel Arends Jr.

Daniel Arends Jr.

MA program; BA Economics (minor General Philosophy) University of Michigan 2016. Areas of interest: metaphysics and epistemology
Rebecca Bailey

Rebecca Bailey

BA Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Areas of interest: Epistemology, philosophy of mind, feminism
Cole Baisch

Cole Baisch

MA program; BA, BS University of California Santa Cruz. Areas of interest: Cognitive science, moral psychology, moral responsibility, metaethics.
Thomas Bonn

Thomas Bonn

PhD program; BA in Liberal Arts, St. John's College Annapolis
Henry Campbell

Henry Campbell

MA Program; BA, UC San Diego 2022; Areas of Interest: Moral Philosophy, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, German Idealism, some Continental Philosophy
Spencer Cardwell

Spencer Cardwell

PhD program; BA Brigham Young University, MA Virginia Tech. Areas of interest: Early modern and medieval

Daniel Carr

PhD program. AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion; AOC: Philosophy of Science, Ethics

Jonathon Cavitt

MA program; BS Environmental Policy and Planning, Virginia Tech, 2000; Areas of interest: Philosophy of Science, Environmental Philosophy
Julia Chen

Xingzhu (Julia) Chen

PhD program; BA Sun Yat-Sen University, MA Wuhan University. Areas of interest: epistemology, metaethics
Bret Donnelly

Bret Donnelly

PhD program; BA University of California Davis, 2009; MA Western Michigan University, 2018. Areas of interest: logic, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

Rowen Foliver

MA program; BA Philosophy and Mathematics Reed College (2020). Areas of interest: epistemology (including social epistemology), metaphysics (especially ontology), philosophy of math, philosophy of science, philosophy of logic

Owen Forbes

PhD program; BA Saint John's College Maryland 2017; MA University of Wisconsin Milwaukee 2019
Eric Fox

Eric Fox

MA program; BA James Madison University 2018; Areas of interest: Eastern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Meta Ethics, and Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics.
Evan Frook

Evan Frook

PhD program; BS Philosophy (specializing in philosophy of science) 2020, University of Missouri-Columbia. Areas of interest: Theory of values, aesthetics
Richard Fyfe

Richard Fyfe

MA program, later PhD program; BA, History and BA, Philosophy, Montana State Univ. 1986, MA University of Colorado Boulder 2020. Areas of interest: Metaethics, Moral Psychology
Dawn Jacob

Dawn Jacob

PhD program; BA in philosophy, University of Akron, 2000; MA in philosophy, Yale, 2004. Primary areas of interest include ancient philosophy, ethics, and moral psychology.

Marshall Jarrell

MA program. A.D. John Tyler Community College, General Studies, 2017; B.A. Virginia Commonwealth University, Philosophy, 2020. Areas of interest: metaphysics, ontology.
Hunter Jin

Hunter Jin

PhD program; BA Reed College. Areas of interest: Applied ethics, moral psychology, environmental ethics.
Gabriel Kaul

Gabriel Kaul

MA program; BA in Philosophy & Psychology, Lawrence University, 2017. Areas of interest: Applied ethics, social philosophy
Connor Kianpour

Connor Kianpour

Areas of interest: Social and political philosophy
Zelda Kiesler

Zelda Kieser

MA program: BA Philosophy/Cognitive Science, Marquette University, 2022. Areas of interest: philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy.
Colton Kunzeman

Colton Kunzeman

MA Program; BA Philosophy New College of Florida, 2019.
Kris Lauridsen

Kristoffer Lauridsen

MA program: BA Neuroscience with Philosophy minor, CU Boulder 2022. Areas of interest: philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics.

Ashlyn Lee

MA program: BA Psychology, CU Boulder (2023). Areas of interest: applied ethics (especially ethics of technology)
Sarah LoCurto

Sparrow LoCurto

BA Philosophy & Neuroscience, Duke University, 2023. Areas of interest: moral psychology, (virtue) ethics, aesthetics
Amanda Loeffelholz

Amanda Loeffelholz

PhD program; BA Philosophy DePaul University 2020. Areas of interest: epistemology, philosophy of psychiatry and psychology
Kimberly Madero

Kimberly Madero

MA program; BA University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Areas of interest: ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy
James Marks

James Marks

PhD program; BA Dickinson College. Areas of interest: philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, logic, metaethics, metaphysics.
Paige Massey

Paige Massey

Ph.D. program; BA Pepperdine University, 2015
Katie McCabe

Katie McCabe

MA program: BA Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University 2021. Areas of interest: philosophy of horror, environmental phenomenology, feminist/LGBT ethics, history of philosophy, and Kierkegaard.
Wyatt McDaniel

Wyatt McDaniel

PhD program; BA in Psychology and Philosophy from The Ohio State University, 2017; Areas of interest: Metanormativity, Metaethics, Ethics, and Moral Psychology.

Hossein Mohayeji Nasr Abadi

PhD program; BA Philosophy University of Tehran (2017), MA Philosophy Texas Tech (2021). Areas of interest: ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion

Erica Nieblas

MA program, later PhD program; BA, California State University Fullerton, 2010
Idowu Odeyemi

Idowu Odeyemi

PhD program; BA Ekiti State University 2021. Areas of Interest: Applied Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy, and Moral Philosophy.
Tyler Porter

Tyler Porter

PhD program: BA Philosophy Fort Lewis College 2018, MA Philosophy University of Houston 2021. Areas of interest: Epistemology, aesthetics
Brandon Price

Brandon Price

MA program; BA Philosophy, Iowa State University 2020. Areas of interest: Feminist philosophy, metaphysics, metaethics, philosophy of language.
Travis Rebello

Travis Rebello

PhD program. History: BA (Hons) and MA, University of Cape Town. Area of interest: Moral philosophy
Charles Roberts

Charlie Roberts

PhD program: BA University Of Sheffield (2019), MA University Of London (2021). Areas of interest: normative ethics, moral psychology.
Emily SLome

Emily Slome

Ph.D. program; BA, New York University, 2014; MA, Bioethics, New York University, 2016; Areas of Interest: applied ethics, bioethics.
Joy Webb

Joy Webb

BA Philosophy and English CU Colorado Springs (2021); areas of interest ancient philosophy, applied ethics, Eastern philosophy.
Matthew Wennemann

Matt Wennemann

BA University of Oklahoma 2020; MA University of Oklahoma 2022; interests medieval philosophy; metaphysics; philosophy of religion.

Wen Xu

Ph.D. program; B.A. Emory University 2017, M.A. University of Western Ontario 2019
Kyle York

Kyle York

Ph.D. program; BA University of Colorado Denver, MA University of Tartu
Jonathyn Zapf

Jonathyn Zapf

MA program, later PhD program; BA, Biology, Grace College, 2012. Areas of interest: Epistemology, philosophy of religion.
Yurong Zhu

Yurong Zhu

PhD program; BA Xiamen University, MA Zhejiang University. Areas of interest: epistemology, normativity, philosophy of memory

Staff

Terri Baldridge

Manager of Finance and Business Operations

Alex Beard

Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Karen Sites

Karen Sites

Graduate Program Assistant

University Faculty Affiliates

Andrew Calabrese

Andrew Calabrese

Professor
Media Studies
Research Interests : The relationship between communications media and citizenship, with an emphasis on theoretical and practical issues of media and globalization.
Michaele Ferguson

Michaele Ferguson

Associate Professor
Political Science
Research Interests : Contemporary Political Theory, Democratic Theory, Politics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Feminist Theory.
Benjamin Hale

Benjamin Hale

Associate Professor
Environmental Studies
PhD, Stony Brook, 2004; MPA, Arizona, 1997. Environmental Ethics, Bioethics, Public Policy and Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethical Theory.
Laura Michaelis

Laura Michaelis

Professor
Linguistics
Research Interests : Tense and aspect, corpus syntax, spoken-language syntax, discourse pragmatics, prosody, Construction Grammar, simulation semantics, Latin syntax and semantics.
Martha Palmer

Martha Palmer

Professor
Linguistics • Computer Science
Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, with a special emphasis on Semantics and its use in natural language processing applications such as Machine Translation, Information Extraction and Question Answering.

Steve Vanderheiden

Associate Professor
Political Science
Research Interests : normative political theory, environmental politics, environmental ethics, democratic theory.

Emeriti

Leonard Boonin

Leonard Boonin

Professor Emeritus
From 1970 to 1996, Leonard Boonin was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder where he also served at various points as the Chair of the Department and the Director of the Center for Values and Social Policy. He retired in 1996 as Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, having previously held positions at the University of Missouri, the State University of New York at Oswego, and Hunter College...

Sheralee Brindell

Senior Instructor Emerita
John Fisher

John Fisher

Professor Emeritus
Prof. John Fisher was a professor of philosophy here from 1968 to 2011 when he retired as Emeritus Professor of Philosophy. He received a BS in Physics from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Institute of Technology, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He has published widely in areas including ethics, metaphysics and philosophy of language, but his area of specialty is aesthetics and...
Graeme Forbes

Graeme Forbes

Professor Emeritus
DPhil, Oxford, 1980. Semantics, Metaphysics, Logic, Epistemology.
Alison Jaggar

Alison Jaggar

Professor Emerita • College Professor of Distinction
PhD, Buffalo, 1970. Contemporary Social, Moral, and Political Philosophy, often from a feminist perspective.
Diane Mayer

Diane Mayer

Senior Instructor Emerita
Diane Mayer taught as an Instructor in the department from 1983 until 2011, when she retired as a Senior Instructor Emerita. She did her BA in Religion and Biblical Studies at Smith College (1968), and her PhD here at CU-Boulder in the 1970s, writing a dissertation on Kant, directed by Berel Lang. She put herself through grad school as a dispatcher for the CU police department, calmly handling emergency calls...

Ed Miller

Professor Emeritus
Claudia Mills

Claudia Mills

Associate Professor Emerita
Prof. Claudia Mills was a beloved philosophy professor here at CU-Boulder from 1991 to 2014, when she retired as Emeritus Associate Professor of Philosophy. She was born in New York City on August 21, 1954. She received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College in 1976, her M.A. degree from Princeton University in 1979, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1991. She also received an M.L.S. degree from...
Wes Morriston

Wes Morriston

Professor Emeritus
Prof. Wes Morriston was a professor of philosophy at CU-Boulder from 1972-2014 when he retired as Emeritus Professor of Philosophy. He received a BA in philosophy from Queen’s University in Belfast in 1967, then earned an MA and PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University in 1969 and 1972. Prof. Morriston specialized in the philosophy of religion, and published many papers in this area during his career, many of which are...
Michael Tooley

Michael Tooley

Professor Emeritus • College Professor of Distinction
PhD, Princeton, 1968. Metaphysics and Epistemology, Ethics (especially Applied Ethics), Philosophy of Religion.
Michael Zimmerman

Michael Zimmerman

Professor Emeritus
Michael Zimmerman was Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University for 31 years, from 1975-2006, and then came to Boulder, where he was Director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts from 2006-2010. In 2010 he returned to teaching, and retired as Emeritus Professor of philosophy in 2015. He had an extraordinarily productive and successful scholarly career, writing in environmental philosophy, integral theory, Heidegger and Nietzsche, and Buddhism. He’s written...