Faculty interests and backgrounds

The Department has a large faculty with a wide variety of interests and backgrounds. Faculty have written in recent years on problems such as perception, feminist theory, the applications of computers in logic, justice, and problems in medical decision making; and on historical figures such as Plato, Kant, James, DuBois, and Wittgenstein. The Department emphasizes teaching, and boasts several faculty who have received University teaching awards. Several faculty have interdisciplinary interests and affiliations with faculty and units in other parts of the University, for example, Women's Studies, Ancient Studies, Cognitive Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics, Sociology, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Medicine, and American Studies.

Faculty by Research Area