Participating Faculty

 

DePaul University
Kevin Thompson Philosophy German Idealism, Contemporary French Philosophy, and the history of political theory
Avery Goldman Philosophy Late Modern Philosophy, particularly Kant, and Phenomenology, focusing on issues concerning both epistemology and aesthetics
Elizabeth Millán Philosophy Aesthetics, German Idealism/Romanticism, and Latin American Philosophy
William McNeill Philosophy Heidegger, Nietzsche, Holderlin, Ancient philosophy
Frédéric Seyler Philosophy German Idealism (especially Fichte), Phenomenology, 19th & 20th century French and German Philosophy
Lewis University in Chicago
Gerad Gentry Philosophy German Idealism, Kant, Aesthetics, Ethics, Human Rights, and Philosophy of Law.
Loyola University-Chicago
Dimitris Apostolopoulos Philosophy 20th century European Philosophy, Phenomenology, Aesthetics
Andrew Cutrofello Philosophy Kant, continental philosophy, and metaphilosophical reflections on the history and meaning of the analytic/continental distinction.
Hille Haker Philosophy Contemporary German philosophical and theological ethics, hermeneutics & narrative ethics; Frankfurt School critical theory; feminist ethics
David Ingram Philosophy Philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, philosophy of science/social science, continental philosophy (French and German) with significant overlaps in analytic Anglo-American philosophy
Naomi Fisher Philosophy Kant and German Idealism and Romanticism, specifically the relationship between nature, freedom, and rationality in Kant’s Critical philosophy and in Friedrich Schelling’s philosophy of nature. She also has interests in the broader history of philosophy, particularly the 19th century, the philosophy of science, and ethics
Northwestern University
Mark Alznauer Philosophy Ethics, Aesthetics, and Social Theory in 19th-century European Philosophy
Kyla Ebels Duggan Philosophy Moral theory, political philosophy, Kant, History of Ethics
Sean Ebels Duggan Philosophy Philosophy of logic and mathematics, early modern philosophy, Kant, and early Analytic philosophy
James Farr Political Science Political theory and the history of political thought, history and philosophy of social science
Peter Fenves Literature, German, Jewish Studies German literature and philosophy, contemporary French thought
Cristina Lafont Philosophy German philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and critical theory; philosophy of language, contemporary moral and political philosophy
Axel Mueller Philosophy Philosophy of science, American Pragmatism, Kant
Kenneth Seeskin Philosophy Jewish philosophy, ancient and medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion
Sam Weber German Critical Theory, Frankfurt School
Rachel Zuckert Philosophy Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, aesthetics
Purdue University
Patrick Kain Philosophy Kant, Moral philosophy, 17th and 18th century philosophy.
Jacqueline Mariña Philosophy Kant, Schleiermacher, Religion and ethics
Chris Yeomans Philosophy Hegel and German Philosophy, and Philosophy of Action
University of Chicago
James Conant Philosophy Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, Wittgenstein, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, William James, Frege, Carnap, Putnam, Cavell, Rorty, and McDowell
Michael Forster Philosophy Kant, Hegel, Herder, Wittgenstein, ancient philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of history
Brian Leiter Law Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ethics and Metaethics, Philosophy of Law
Robert Pippin Philosophy, Social Thought Kant, German Idealism, Hegel, Nietzsche, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Philosophy, Critical Theory, Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy
Robert J. Richards History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology History and philosophy of biology and psychology, German Romanticism
Linda M.G. Zerilli Political Science, Gender Studies Political theory, feminist theory, gender and politics, Kant, Hannah Arendt
University of Illinois – Chicago
Sam Fleischacker Philosophy Moral and political philosophy, Kant, Adam Smith, aesthetics, philosophy of religion
Daniel Sutherland Philosophy Kant, early modern philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science
Astrida Orle Tantillo Germanic Studies Eighteenth-century literature and history and philosophy of science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thomas Byrne Philosophy Phenomenology, 19th– & 20th-century Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
Vittorio Hösle German, Philosophy, Government Ethics, metaphysics, political philosophy, aesthetics, intellectual history
G. Felicitas Munzel Liberal Studies, Philosophy Kant’s moral philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, and philosophy of education
Robert E. Norton German 18th- through 20th-century German literature and philosophy, aesthetics and ethics, German intellectual history
Mark W. Roche German, Philosophy, Political Science German philosophy, literature, film, and higher education
Fred Rush Philosophy History of Continental Philosophy, Kant, Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Social and Political Philosophy
Dana Villa Political Science Political Theory, history of political thought (emphasis on 19th and 20th century Continental tradition)
Stephen Watson Philosophy Contemporary Continental Thought, 19th Century Philosophy, Aesthetics
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
William Bristow Philosophy Kant, post-Kantian German Idealists and other 19th century philosophers, role of self-consciousness in practical rational agency
Nataliya Palatnik Philosophy Kant (theoretical and practical philosophy), Moral Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, German Idealism
Wheaton College
Ryan Kemp Philosophy Kant, German Idealism, and Kierkegaard