Click on a name or scroll down for more information. General questions about the program should be directed to philo at albany.edu. Phone numbers for all faculty can be found at the UAlbany directory.

Permanent Faculty:

Bradley Armour-Garb Associate Professor, received his PhD from CUNY and is a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. His primary interests are in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and metaphysics, though he also has interests in epistemology. His papers are published in a number of journals and volumes. In addition, he has published Deflationary Truth (2005); Deflationism and Paradox (2006) (both edited with JC Beall); and The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays (2004) (with Graham Priest and JC Beall). In addition, he has forthcoming The Liar Paradox, True Contradictions (with John Woods), and Philosophical Pathology.

e-mail: armrgrb at albany.edu

Rachel Cohon Associate Professor, received her PhD from U.C.L.A. Her fields of interest are ethics, the philosophy of action, and the history of ethics. She is the author of Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication (Oxford University Press, 2008), a book reinterpreting Hume's meta-ethics and virtue ethics. She has also written a number of articles on Hume's moral and political philosophy and theory of the passions, and on systematic topics related to normative reasons for action. She edited a volume of articles on Hume's ethics, Hume: Moral and Political Philosophy (2001), and wrote the entry on Hume's moral and political philosophy in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. She is also interested in applied ethics and wrote the article on ethical issues pertaining to disability for the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (2003). She teaches graduate courses in moral theory, including such topics as consequentialism vs. deontology vs. virtue ethics, moral realism, the normativity of ethics, and eighteenth century moral philosophy.

e-mail: rcohon at albany.edu
website: http://www.albany.edu/philosophy/cohon

Jason D'Cruz Assistant Professor, received his PhD from Brown University. Prior to that, he worked at the Joint Center for Bioethics at the University of Toronto, and taught at Zhejiang Institute of Science and Technology in Hangzhou, China. His present research focuses on a constellation of questions relating to the imagination in ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of action. He is also interested in topics in bioethics (particular patient autonomy and informed consent) and political philosophy (particularly the political obligations of refugees). He teaches courses in ethics and aesthetics.

e-mail: jdcruz at albany.edu
website: http://www.jasondcruz.com

Lisa Fuller Assistant Professor, received her PhD from the University of Toronto. From Sept. 2006 - July 2008 she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Sheffield. Her main areas of interest are applied ethics (especially global justice), political philosophy, feminism and philosophy of law. She has published on various aspects of global justice, including the obligations of international aid agencies to both beneficiaries and donors.

e-mail: lfuller at albany.edu

Kristen Hessler Assistant Professor, received her PhD from the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on political philosophy (especially issues in global justice, human rights, and international law) and bioethics (with a focus on environmental and agricultural issues). She has published articles on human rights law, international justice, and ethical issues concerning biotechnology in agriculture. She teaches courses in ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy.

e-mail: khessler at albany.edu

Robert Howell Professor, received his PhD from the University of Michigan. His research and teaching focus on the history of modern philosophy (especially Kant), analytical metaphysics, and aesthetics. He is particularly interested in questions about our representation of and reference to objects, as these questions emerge in the Critique of Pure Reason and related works and in the philosophy of art. He has published essays on Kant's theoretical philosophy and is the author of Kant's Transcendental Deduction (1992). He also has published on representation in the arts and on fictional objects. He teaches graduate courses in Kant, nineteenth century philosophy, aesthetics, and metaphysics. He has held ACLS and NEH grants and in 1982-83 was a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (and a visitor, fall 1983 and summer 2006). During 2007-08 he held a Fulbright fellowship at Moscow State University, where he taught and did research on Kant and on aesthetics.

e-mail: bobh at albany.edu

P.D. Magnus Assistant Professor, received his PhD from UC San Diego. His primary research is in the philosophy of science, motivated by a fallibilist but non-sceptical conception of scientific knowledge. Much of his work has addressed varieties of underdetermination. He also has interests in the history of philosophy, especially Thomas Reid and C.S. Peirce. A complete list of his publications is available on his website.

e-mail: pmagnus at albany.edu
website: http://www.fecundity.com/job

Jon Mandle Department Chair and Associate Professor, received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. His primary interests are in political philosophy and ethics and their history. He is the author of Global Justice (2006) and What's Left of Liberalism? An Interpretation and Defense of Justice as Fairness (2000). He has published articles on the work of John Rawls, Rousseau's political philosophy, globalization, naturalism, and other topics. He teaches courses on contemporary ethical and political philosophy, global justice, 17th-19th century ethical theory, and the history of political philosophy. He is also a contributor to the blog crookedtimber.org.

e-mail: mandle at albany.edu

Ron McClamrock Associate Professor, received his PhD from M.I.T. He works in the philosophy of psychology, including the foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, as well as more broadly in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. He is the author of Existential Cognition: Computational Minds in the World (1995) which argues for the centrality of interactivity with the world for a scientific theory of mind. He also teaches and writes on higher-level causation and explanatory pluralism in the sciences, bounded rationality, and the relationship between phenomenology and the sciences of mind.

e-mail: ron at albany.edu
website: http://www.albany.edu/~ron

Robert Meyers Professor, received his PhD from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is interested in the theory of knowledge, and the history of modern empiricism, especially American pragmatism and Hume. He is currently working on Peirce's view of knowledge and realism. His publications include: The Likelihood of Knowledge (1988) and extensive work on topics including the philosophy of CS Peirce.

e-mail: rgm95 at albany.edu
website: http://rgm95.tripod.com/homepage/

Nathan Powers Assistant Professor, received his PhD from Princeton University. His research focuses on ancient philosophy, and he has published articles on various aspects of Greek philosophy in the Hellenistic period.

e-mail: npowers at albany.edu

Bonnie Steinbock Professor, received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in biomedical ethics, particularly reproduction and genetics. She is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, a member of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproduction And Medicine (ASRM), and she has served on a number of working groups in the United States and Europe. Recent articles have been on wrongful life and procreative decisions, reproductive cloning, defining parenthood, moral status, and embryonic stem cell research. She is the author of Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses (1992). She is the area editor in Fertility and Reproduction for the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (2004). She has edited and co-edited several books on issues relating to medical ethics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law, as well as graduate courses in public policy and public health. She is the director of the interdisciplinary minor in bioethics.

e-mail: steinbock at albany.edu
website: http://www.albany.edu/philosophy/steinbock

Adjunct Instructors:

• Dyrleif Bjarnadottir: dyrleifb at hotmail.com
• Ted Mehl: wmehl at albany.edu
• Kevin Olbrys: kolbrys at albany.edu
• David Pinkowski: djpinkowski at yahoo.com
• Justin Weil: jweiluata at yahoo.com

Emeritus Faculty:

Robert Garvin, Associate Professor Emeritus
e-mail: garvermont at yahoo.com

Josiah Gould, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
e-mail: GouldAristotle at aol.com

John Kekes, Professor Emeritus
e-mail: jonkekes at nycap.rr.com

Berel Lang, Professor Emeritus
e-mail: Berel.Lang at trincoll.edu

Harold Morick, Associate Professor Emeritus
e-mail: vanderluyd at aol.com

William Reese, Professor Emeritus
e-mail: reesewl at cs.com

Kenneth Stern, Professor Emeritus
e-mail: stern at albany.edu

Anthony Ungar, Associate Professor Emeritus
e-mail: amu78 at albany.edu

Naomi Zack, Professor Emeritus
e-mail: nzack at darkwing.uoregon.edu