Faculty

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Simon Blackburn
Distinguished Research Professor
Areas of special interest:

philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of ethics, modern philosophy, philosophy of the emotions

Luc Bovens
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

Geoffrey Brennan
Distinguished Research Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program
Areas of special interest:

moral theory, political philosophy, economics, rationality

Tom Dougherty
Associate Professor, Mary Noel and William M. Lamont Scholar
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

212 Caldwell Hall
emailtom@unc.edu 
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

ethics, political philosophy

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

metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics

Markus Kohl
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

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

Areas of special interest:

History of Philosophy (especially Kant)

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

epistemology, philosophy of science, formal epistemology, practical reason

Marc Lange
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

Mariska Leunissen
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

Carla Merino-Rajme
Assistant Professor
207G Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

philosophy of mind, metaphysics

Daniel Muñoz
Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

203 Caldwell Hall
daniel.munoz@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

ethics, PPE

Alan Nelson
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
109C Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

early modern philosophy, history of analytic philosophy

Ram Neta
Professor
Director of Placement
204 Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

epistemology

Jim Pryor
Professor

108A Caldwell
jimpryor@unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

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

C.D.C. Reeve
Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor
112C Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle

John T. Roberts
Professor
215B Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

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

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
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

Sarah Stroud
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

Rebecca Walker
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Social Medicine
207B Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

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

Susan Wolf
Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor
109B Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

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

Alex Worsnip
Associate Professor
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

Faculty Fellows & Lecturers

Chris Blake-Turner
Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor

107B Caldwell Hall
chrisbt@live.unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

epistemology, ethics, logic

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

11 Caldwell Hall
kirun@email.unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

causal and normative philosophy, history of political philosophy, philosophy of social science

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

10 Caldwell Hall
lusch@email.unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

ethics, metaethics, applied ethics

Michaela Tiller
Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor
107D Caldwell Hall
Areas of special interest:

early modern philosophy

Michael Vazquez
Teaching Assistant Professor
Director of Outreach

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

Areas of special interest:

ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of education

Samantha Wakil
Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor

swakil@live.unc.edu
Personal Homepage

Areas of special interest:

philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology

Erik Zhang
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