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Peter Achinstein
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
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- peter.achinstein@jhu.edu
- Gilman 204
- 410-516-7516
Research Interests: Philosophy of science; analytic philosophy
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Lucy Allais
Miller Professor of Philosophy
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- lallais1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 292
Research Interests: Kant, forgiveness, punishment
Education: D.Phil., Oxford
Richard Bett
Professor of Philosophy
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- rbett1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 202
- 410-516-6863
Research Interests: Ancient Greek philosophy
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Justin Bledin
Associate Professor of Philosophy & Director of Graduate Studies
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- jbledin@jhu.edu
- Gilman 206
- 410-516-2024
Research Interests: Logic, Philosophy of Language (esp. Formal Semantics), Epistemology
Education: PhD, UC Berkeley
Hilary Bok
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Luce Professor in Bioethics and Moral and Political Theory, Director of Bioethics Program, and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- hbok@jhu.edu
- Gilman 278
- 410-516-7020
Research Interests: Ethics; bioethics; freedom of the will; Kant
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Sean Carroll
Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy
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- scarro30@jhu.edu
- Bloomberg 455
Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics, Complexity, Emergence
Education: PhD, Harvard
Patrick Connolly
Associate Professor
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- connolly@jhu.edu
- Greenhouse 105
Research Interests: Early Modern Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science
Education: PhD, University of North Carolina
E.J. Green
Associate Research Professor
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science, with a primary focus on perception
Education: PhD, Rutgers University
Steven Gross
Professor of Philosophy and Chair
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- sgross11@jhu.edu
- Gilman 272
- 410-516-4763
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: philosophy of language and mind, and foundations of the mind-brain sciences
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Ben Holguín
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Epistemology and Philosophy of Language
Education: Ph.D., NYU
Jenann Ismael
William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy
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- jismael1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 261
Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Katharina Kraus
Miller Associate Professor of Philosophy
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- kkraus2@jhu.edu
- Greenhouse 107
Research Interests: philosophy of Enlightenment, 19th and 20th century German philosophy, as well as contemporary analytic philosophy of mind, science, and language
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Chris Lebron
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the AAP Master of Liberal Arts Program
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- clebron2@jhu.edu
- Gilman 290
Research Interests: Political philosophy; social theory; the philosophy of race; and democratic ethics
Education: PhD, MIT
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy
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- ymelame1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 274
- 410-516-0568
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy; German idealism; metaphysics; political philosophy
Education: PhD, Yale University
Dean Moyar
Professor of Philosophy and Associate Chair
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- dmoyar@jhu.edu
- Gilman 276
- 410-516-7523
Research Interests: German idealism; ethics; political philosophy
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Ian Phillips
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Psychological and Brain Sciences
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- ianbphillips@jhu.edu
- Gilman 280
- 410-516-5570
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology and Neuroscience, Epistemology, Metaphysics
Education: PhD, University College London
Hanna Pickard
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics
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- h.pickard@jhu.edu
- Gilman 282
- 410-516-7977
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, clinical ethics
Education: DPhil, Oxford University
Robert Rynasiewicz
Professor of Philosophy
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- ryno@jhu.edu
- Gilman 294
- 410-516-7514
Research Interests: Logic; philosophy of science; history and philosophy of physics
Education: PhD, University of Minnesota
Elanor Taylor
Associate Professor of Philosophy
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- etaylo42@jhu.edu
- Gilman 284
- 410-516-0594
Research Interests: Metaphysics, including metaphysics of science and social metaphysics
Education: PhD, University of North Carolina
J. David Velleman
Miller Research Professor
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Research Interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Michael Williams
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
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- mwilliams@jhu.edu
- Gilman 270
- 410-516-7030
Research Interests: Epistemology; philosophy of language; history of modern philosophy
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Monique Wonderly
Visiting Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Theoretical and applied ethics (including bioethics), moral psychology, and the philosophy of emotion
Education: PhD, University of California at Riverside
Secondary Appointments
Anne Barnhill
Associate Research Professor, with the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at the Berman Institute
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Research Interests: Food ethics, food policy, and public health ethics
Chaz Firestone
Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Director of the Hopkins Perception & Mind Laboratory
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Research Interests: perception, attention, visual cognition, foundations of cognitive science
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German
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Research Interests: Continental Philosophy; Phenomenology; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature; Cognitive Literary Theory; Philosophy of Imagination; Modern German Literature and Thought.
Jeffrey Kahn
Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
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Maria Merritt
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Lawrence Principe
Drew Professor of the Humanities, Department of History of Science and Technology; Director, Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
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Travis Rieder
Associate Research Professor, Berman Institute of Bioethics
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Research Interests: Ethics of addiction and of climate change
emeritus faculty
Eckart Förster
Professor of Philosophy
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- eckart.forster@jhu.edu
- 410-516-8041
Research Interests: Metaphysics; history of philosophy; Kant and German idealism
Education: PhD, Oxford University
Meredith Williams
Professor of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mind; Wittgenstein; philosophy of psychology
Education: PhD, New York University
Post-doctoral Fellow
Cara Cummings
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Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, especially Aristotle; Bioethics, especially genetic enhancement and procreative ethics; and Virtue Ethics.
Hao Dong
Post Doctoral Fellow
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Research Interests: Early modern philosophy (Leibniz, Hobbes, Spinoza), ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Chinese philosophy
Education: Ph.D., Princeton