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Regular Faculty


Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program
108B Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

rationality, philosophy and public policy, moral psychology, philosophy of economics, formal epistemology

Assistant Professor

207E Caldwell Hall
rchaplin@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Kant (especially theoretical), early modern philosophy, ethics, moral psychology

Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

212 Caldwell Hall
emailtom@unc.edu 
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

ethics, political philosophy

Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

215C Caldwell Hall
simone.gubler@unc.edu 
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of law

Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions
214B Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

104 Caldwell Hall
mkohl17@email.unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

History of Philosophy (especially Kant and Nietzsche)

Professor
Department Chair
101B Caldwell Hall
(919) 962-2486 (phone)
Areas of special interest:

epistemology, philosophy of science, formal epistemology, practical reason

Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor
112A Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

philosophy of science (including philosophy of physics and philosophy of biology), metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of math

Professor
Associate Chair
102B Caldwell Hall
(919) 962-2280 (phone)
Areas of special interest:

ancient philosophy, with special interests in Aristotelian natural philosophy, philosophy of science and virtue ethics

Professor Emeritus
Core Faculty Emeritus, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program
112C Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

moral and political philosophy, including moral theory, practical ethics, and philosophy and public policy; current research focuses on connections between values and risk and issues in environmental ethics

Assistant Professor
Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
207G Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

philosophy of mind, metaphysics

Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

203 Caldwell Hall
daniel.munoz@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

ethics, PPE

Professor
109C Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

early modern philosophy, history of analytic philosophy

Professor
Director of Placement
109B Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

epistemology

Professor

108A Caldwell Hall
jimpryor@unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

epistemology, philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, metaphysics

Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor
Areas of special interest:

ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle

Professor
215B Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

laws of nature, interpretations of probability, induction, time travel

Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor
Director, UNC Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program
201 Caldwell Hall
(919) 627-1403 (phone)
Areas of special interest:

metaethics, moral theory, history of philosophy (especially Hume and Smith), epistemology, PPE

Professor
Director, Parr Center for Ethics

207D Caldwell Hall
(919) 962-3317 (phone)
sarah.stroud@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

ethics, moral theory, moral psychology, metaethics, related aspects of philosophy of action and epistemology

Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Social Medicine
204 Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

bioethics, animal ethics, methods of practical ethics, distributive justice, virtue ethics

Professor Emeritus
Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor
112C Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

moral psychology, moral theory, and their close relations in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, aesthetics

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies; Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

202B Caldwell Hall
aworsnip@unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

epistemology, normativity, rationality, metaethics, related parts of philosophy of language and mind

Teaching Faculty


Teaching Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

109A Caldwell Hall
zberger@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

democratic theory and epistemic democracy; political epistemology and psychology; social norms; trust, inequality, and polarization

Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor

11A Caldwell Hall
abbey.burke@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

human rights, philosophy of law, freedom of expression, migration, refugees

Teaching Assistant Professor

gclay@email.unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

early modern philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of technology

Teaching Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

214A Caldwell Hall
sdishaw@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

moral philosophy, social philosophy, epistemology

Teaching Assistant Professor

Whitehead Hall
rhanlon@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (esp. Aristotle); Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Film; Moral Psychology; Early Modern Philosophy; Wittgenstein

Teaching Assistant Professor

adam.hollowell@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

applied ethics, moral philosophy, social inequality, philosophy and public policy

Visiting Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

202A Caldwell Hall
morf@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

social epistemology, applied epistemology

Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Teaching Assistant Professor, Peace, War & Defense

403 Hamilton Hall
drjaross@email.unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

history of human rights, history of philosophy, legal and political philosophy, just war theory, epistemology, logic

Teaching Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

11 Caldwell Hall
gjrothfu@unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

decision theory, formal epistemology, normative ethics

Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor

10 Caldwell Hall
sslank@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

ethics, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, moral epistemology

Teaching Assistant Professor
Director of Outreach

207A Caldwell Hall
919-962-3326 (office)
michael.vazquez@unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of education

Teaching Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

215A Caldwell Hall
yzhang7@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

normative ethics, metaethics, political philosophy