Faculty | Department of Philosophy

Primary Faculty

Name	Email	Office	Office Hours	Research Areas	Links
Michael Bishop Professor	mbishop@fsu.edu	Dodd 156C	by appointment	Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology, Value Theory	Profile, CV
Michael Bukoski Assistant Professor	mbukoski@fsu.edu	Dodd 186	M 2:00-5:00 (virtual)	Ethics, Metaethics, Political Philosophy	Personal Site, CV
Randolph Clarke Professor	rkclarke@fsu.edu	Dodd 154A	T R 3:00-4:30 (virtual)	Philosophy of Action, Metaphysics, Ethics	Profile, CV, PhilPapers
Marcela Herdova Assistant Professor	mherdova@fsu.edu	Dodd 286	T R 12:30-1:30 (virtual)	Philosophy of Mind, Action Theory, Self-Control, Free Will, Moral Psychology	Profile, Personal Site, PhilPapers, Academia.edu
Edward Hinchman Associate Professor	ehinchman@fsu.edu	Dodd 282	by appointment	Epistemology, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Language and Mind	Profile, Philpapers
James "Jack" Justus Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies	jjustus@fsu.edu	Dodd 154	W 12:00-2:00 (virtual)	Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Environmental Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy	Profile, PhilPapers
Stephen Kearns Associate Professor	skearns@fsu.edu	Dodd 285	W 12:00-2:00 (virtual)	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Action, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind	Profile, CV, Personal Site, PhilPapers
Mark LeBar Professor	mlebar2@fsu.edu	Dodd 289	by appointment	Moral Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy	Profile, CV, PhilPapers, Academia.edu, ResearchGate
Tracie Mahaffey Senior Teaching Faculty	tlmahaff@fsu.edu	Dodd 183	by appointment	Philosophy of action, feminist theory, ethics	Profile, CV
Simon Cabulea May Associate Professor	smay@fsu.edu	Dodd 284	by appointment	Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Law	Profile, CV, PhilPapers, Academia.edu
Alfred Mele William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor	amele@fsu.edu	Dodd 288	M 9:00-11:00, T 11:00-12:00 (virtual)	Action Theory, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Ancient Greek Philosophy	Profile, CV, Personal Site, PhilPapers
Maria Morales Associate Professor	mmorales@fsu.edu	Dodd 184	M 1:00-2:30 (virtual)	Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Feminism	Profile, CV
Shivam Patel Assistant Professor	smpatel@fsu.edu	Dodd 182C	T 11:30-1:30, R 11:00-12:00 (virtual)	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science	,
J. Piers Rawling Professor and Chair	prawling@fsu.edu	Dodd 151	by appointment	Decision and Game Theory, Ethics, Logic	Profile, CV, PhilPapers
John R. Roberts Associate Professor	jrroberts@fsu.edu	Dodd 185	F 10:00-12:00 (virtual)	Modern Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind	Profile, CV, PhilPapers
John Schwenkler Associate Professor	jschwenkler@fsu.edu	Dodd 283	By appointment only	Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action, Epistemology	Profile, CV, Personal Site, PhilPapers
Nathanael Stein Associate Professor	nstein2@fsu.edu	Dodd 287	on sabbatical	Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics	Profile, CV, PhilPapers
Sarah Vincent Teaching Faculty	svincent@fsu.edu	Dodd 156B	T R 1:00-2:30 (virtual)	Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Psychology	Personal Site
Zina B. Ward Assistant Professor	zward@fsu.edu	Dodd 182A	T 9:30-11:30, R 11:00-12:00 (virtual)	General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Science and Values, Moral Psychology	Personal Site
Andrea Westlund Associate Professor	awestlund@fsu.edu	Dodd 152	T R 3:30-4:30 (virtual)	Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Feminist Philosophy	Profile, Academia.edu, PhilPapers, CV

Adjunct Faculty/Post-Doctoral Researchers

Name	Email	Office	Office Hours	Research Areas	Links
Curtis Sommerlatte	csommerlatte@fsu.edu			Kant, Early Modern Philosophy, Phenomenology and Existentialism (esp. Sartre)
Wes Siscoe	wsiscoe@fsu.edu			Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Cognitive Science	Personal Site
Martha Lang	MLLang@fsu.edu	Dodd 290	M W F 9:00-10:00	Epistemology; Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Well-Being; and Applied Philosophy	Personal Site
Angela Schwenkler	aschwenkler@fsu.edu	Dodd 283	By appointment only

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Email	Office	Research Areas
Roy Baumeister Krafft Professor Social Psychology	baumeister@psy.fsu.edu	PSYC B437	Self and identity, emotion, social rejection and belongingness, aggression, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, interpersonal processes, defensiveness and self-deception, self-defeating behaviors, quest for meaning, motivated cognition, interdisciplinary approaches to psychology.
Aline Kalbian Professor, Chair Religion	akalbian@fsu.edu	Dodd 210	Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy, Catholic Moral Theology; Gender and Religion; Bioethics and Religion
Paul Conway Assistant Professor Social Psychology	conway@psy.fsu.edu	PSYC B333	The psychology of morality and justice: How people think about good and bad, right and wrong, and whether to help or harm others.
Michael Kaschak Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies Cognitive Psychology	kaschak@psy.fsu.edu	PSYC B435	The role of systems of perception and action planning in language comprehenslon; embodled cognltlon; language production; learning and adaptation effects in both language comprehension and production; language acquisition.
Martin Kavka Professor Religion	mkavka@fsu.edu	Dodd M03	Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy, Continental Philosophy of Religion; Phenomenology; Jewish Philosophy; Jewish Metaethics
Michael Nair-Collins Associate Professor Medicine, Medical Humanities & Social Sciences	michael.nair-collins@med.fsu.edu		Philosophy of Mind, Biomedical Ethics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Ethics
Fernando Tesón Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar Law	fteson@law.fsu.edu	315 LAW	Relating political philosophy to international law (in particular in defense of humanitarian intervention), political rhetoric, and global justice.

Retired Faculty

Name	Email	Office	Office Hours	Research Areas	Links
Russell Dancy Professor Emeritus	rmdancy@fsu.edu			Ancient Greek Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Music	Profile, CV, PhilPapers
David McNaughton Professor Emeritus	dmcnaughton@fsu.edu			Ethics, 18th Century British Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion	Profile, CV, PhilPapers

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