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Regular Faculty


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

Rationality, Philosophy and Public Policy, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Economics, Formal Epistemology

Assistant Professor

Caldwell Hall, 207E
rchaplin@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Kant (Especially Theoretical), Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Psychology

Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

Caldwell Hall, 212
emailtom@unc.edu 
Website

Areas of special interest:

Ethics, Political Philosophy

Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions, Holds Secondary Appointment in Data Science
Caldwell Hall, 214B
Areas of special interest:

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Caldwell Hall, 104
mkohl17@email.unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

History of Philosophy (Especially Kant and Nietzsche)

Professor
Department Chair
Caldwell Hall, 101B
Areas of special interest:

Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Formal Epistemology, Practical Reason

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

Philosophy of Science (Including Philosophy of Physics and Philosophy of Biology), Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mathematics

Professor
Associate Chair
Caldwell Hall, 102B
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
Caldwell Hall, 112C
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
Caldwell Hall, 207G
Areas of special interest:

Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

Caldwell Hall, 203
daniel.munoz@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Ethics, PPE

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

Epistemology

Professor

Caldwell Hall, 108A
jimpryor@unc.edu
Website

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
Caldwell Hall, 215B
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
Caldwell Hall, 201
Areas of special interest:

Metaethics, Moral Theory, History of Philosophy (Especially Hume and Smith), Epistemology, PPE

Assistant Professor

Caldwell Hall, 207B
margaret.shea@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Aesthetics.

Professor
Director, Parr Center for Ethics

Caldwell Hall, 207D
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
Caldwell Hall, 204
Areas of special interest:

Bioethics, Animal Ethics, Methods of Practical Ethics, Distributive Justice, Virtue Ethics

Professor Emeritus
Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor
Areas of special interest:

Moral psychology, Moral Theory, and Their Close Relations In Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics

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

Caldwell Hall, 202B
aworsnip@unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

Epistemology, Normativity, Rationality, Metaethics, Related Parts of Philosophy of Language and Mind

Teaching Faculty


Charles Shaffer Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Practice in Philanthropy
Core Faculty, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program

Caldwell Hall, 112C
jbare@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Philanthropy and Imagined Futures, Risk Management, Philanthropic Systems

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

Caldwell Hall, 109A
zberger@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Democratic Theory and Epistemic Democracy; Political Epistemology and Psychology; Social Norms; Trust, Inequality, and Polarization

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

Caldwell Hall, 202A
wconner@unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social and Political Philosophy

Teaching Assistant Professor

Caldwell Hall, 215C
kdeaven@unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

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

Caldwell Hall, 215A
fullhart@unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

Ethics, Rationality, and Philosophy of Action

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

Caldwell Hall, 214A
garofap@unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

Political Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy (Especially Hobbes), Moral Philosophy, Social Philosophy

Teaching Assistant Professor

Whitehead Hall, 102
rhanlon@unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (Esp. Aristotle); Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Film; Moral Psychology; Animal Ethics; Wittgenstein

Teaching Assistant Professor

Faculty at Duke University, Co-teaches with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
adam.hollowell@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Applied Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Social Inequality, Philosophy and Public Policy

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

Hamilton Hall, 403
drjaross@email.unc.edu
Website

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

Caldwell Hall, 11
gjrothfu@unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

Decision Theory, Formal Epistemology, Normative Ethics

Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor

Caldwell Hall, 10
sslank@unc.edu

Areas of special interest:

Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Moral Epistemology

Teaching Assistant Professor
Director of Outreach

Caldwell Hall, 207A
michael.vazquez@unc.edu
Website

Areas of special interest:

Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Education