James Anderson 

Ellery Eells

Dan Hausman 

Carolina Sartorio

Elliott Sober 
Harry Brighouse
Haskell Fain
 
Francis Schrag 
Ivan Soll 
Michael Byrd 
Malcolm Forster

Lester Hunt

Russ Shafer-Landau

Dennis Stampe
Claudia Card
Brie Gertler 

Steven Nadler

Lawrence Shapiro

Robert Streiffer
Noël Carroll 
 Martha Gibson 

Terry Penner

Alan Sidelle

Juan Comesaña

 Paula Gottlieb

 Antonio Rauti

 Marcus Singer

Keith Yandell 

Graduate Students

Staff Members



James Anderson, email, 5185D Helen C. White, 263-5162 (PhD. Syracuse University): Faculty Associate and Assistant to the Chairperson. Aesthetics, Environmental Ethics. Publications include articles in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The British Journal of Aesthetics, The Journal of Environmental Ethics and Environmental Values. Publications include:



Harry Brighouse, email, homepage, 5119 Helen C. White, 263-8136 (Ph.D., USC): Professor. Harry Brighouse has been in the department since 1992. He works on the foundations of liberal theory, and is especially interested in the place of education and the family in liberalism. He is currently working on papers on the significance of positionality for egalitarian justice, on development theory and liberal egalitarianism, on the fair distribution of power, and on whether parents have rights over their children. He has also written extensively about education policy in both scholarly journals and the British national press. He is co-editor, with Randall Curren, Mitja Sardoc, and Janez Justin, of the new journal Theory and Research in Education. (Link) http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0499.html

Recent publications include:



Michael Byrd, email, 5175 Helen C. White, 263-3729 (Ph.D., University of California-Irvine): Professor. Logic, Metaphysics, History of Analytic Philosophy. Research interests in non-standard logics and history of analytic philosophy, especially the work of Russell. Has published articles on non-standard logics and on Russell's work in logic and philosophy.  Publications include:



Claudia Card, email, homepage,  5171 Helen C. White, 263-3726 (Ph.D. Harvard): Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate Professor in Jewish Studies, LGBT Studies, Women’s Studies, Affiliate Professor in Environmental Studies. Ethics (Kant, character, virtues & vices, evil); social & political philosophy (justice; crime & punishment); Holocaust and genocide studies; feminist philosophy; environmental philosophy; lesbian culture. Professor Card served as Chair to the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession from 1997-2001; and on the editorial board for the Between Men/Between Woman Book Series (Columbia).  She currently serves as editor to the Feminist Ethics Book Series (Kansas), as Philosophy Book Review Editor for the Journal of Homosexuality, and on numerous editorial boards. Currently Professor Card is working on an introduction to feminist philosophy (forthcoming Blackwell, ca. 2007) and a book on responding to atrocities.  Her books include:


Noël Carroll, publications, 5111 Helen C. White, 263-0251 (Ph.D. in Cinema Studies, NYU; Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago):  Professor.  Area of specialization: Philosophy of Art with a concentration in the Philosophy of Film. Author of seven book and of about one hundred essays in aesthetics and film criticism. Areas of interest include Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of History and the philosophy of Hume. Current work: project on jokes and humor. Recent publications include:


Juan Comesaña, email, homepage 5113 Helen C. White, 263-7457 (Ph.D., Brown University)

Ellery Eells, email, homepage, 5167 Helen C. White, 263-6708 (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley): Professor. Philosophy of Science, Theory of Rational Decision, Inductive Logic, Logic. Author of Rational Decision and Causality (1982), Probabilistic Causality (1991), and articles on rational decision, causation, probability, and inductive logic; and coeditor of two books on such topics. Current research interests include probabilistic causality, scientific explanation and inference, and decision theory.

 


Haskell Fain, email, (Ph.D.,U. of California, Berkeley): Professor Emeritus.  Publications include:


Malcolm Forster, email, homepage, 5137 Helen C. White, 263-6554 (Ph.D., Western Ontario; M Sc, University of Otago): Professor. Philosophy of Science; Simplicity, Philosophy of Physics; Cognitive Science. Publications include:

Brie Gertler, homepage (Ph.D., Brown): Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2001). Brie Gertler's research interests include Philosophy of Mind (especially introspection and consciousness), Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Feminism.




Martha Gibson, email, 5117 Helen C. White, 263-3747 (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison):  Permanent Lecturer. Philosophy of Language/Mind and Modern Philosophy. She has published papers on Free Will, Kant, and meaning.



Paula Gottlieb, email, 5161 Helen C. White, 263-0253 (B. Phil., Oxon., Ph.D., Cornell):  Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor of Classics. Ancient Greek Philosophy and Ethics. Currently Professor Gottlieb is working on an analysis of the first two books of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics for Project Archelogos and writing a book, The Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics. She will be a Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research in the Humanities during Fall 2001. Publications include:




Dan Hausman, email, homepage, 5197 Helen C. White, 263-5178 (Ph.D. Columbia): Professor. Professor Hausman teaches courses in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of economics. He has published in all these areas, especially concerning philosophy of economics and causality. He is the co-founder and past co-editor of the journal, Economics and Philosophy.




Lester Hunt, email, homepage, 5165 Helen C. White, 263-5956 (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara): Professor. Professor Hunt works in Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law. He is currently working on a book on philosophical ideas in literature and film. Recent publications include:

 


Steven Nadler, email, homepage, 5109 Helen C. White, 263-3741 (Ph.D., Columbia).  Professor.  Early modern philosophy.  Publications include Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas (Princeton University Press, 1989); Malebranche and Ideas (Oxford University Press, 1992); Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Spinoza's Heresy (Oxford University Press, 2002).  Also, co-editor (with Daniel Garber) of Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy.




Terry Penner, email, homepage, 5139 Helen C. White, 263-3740 (B. Phil., Oxford):  Professor. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Frege; Metaphysics, Ethics. Professor Penner has two notes on the Crito (on the only great harm to someone being to make them ignorant, and against Kraut's reading of 'persuade or obey') in Classical Quarterly 1997; the chapter on Socrates in the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought; and "The Historical Socrates: Some Philosophical Considerations" in a volume on Ancient and Modern Interpretations of Plato, edited by Julia Annas and Christopher Rowe for Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2001.  Other publications include:




Antonio Rauti, email, 5197 Helen C. White, 263-6215 (Ph.D., UC Riverside). My general area of interest is the philosophy of language and I am working on the idea that the meaning of a complex expression is determined by that of its part and the way they have been put together. I am exploring ways of making this idea more precise and possible challenges to it (in its more precise forms). I am also interested in the early analytic philosophy, especially Frege and Russell.



Carolina Sartorio, email, , homepage, 5195 Helen C. White Hall, 263-0254.  (Ph.D., M.I.T)

Francis Schrag, email, 225 Education, 265-5955 (Ed.D. Teachers College, Columbia): Professor of Philosophy and of Educational Policy Studies. Professor Schrag teaches courses in philosophy of education. His articles in philosophy of education, political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of social sciences have appeared in philosophy and in education journals.



Russ Shafer-Landau, email, 5169 Helen C. White, 263-3727 (Ph.D., University of Arizona): Professor.  Ethical Theory and Philosophy of Law.  Publications include Moral Realism: A Defence (Oxford University Press 2003); an opinionated introduction to metaethics entitled Whatever Happened to Good and Evil?  (Oxford UP 2003), and an anthology, Reason and Responsibility (12th edition, Wadsworth 2004), co-edited with Joel Feinberg

Representative publications include:


Larry Shapiro, email, homepage, 5185 Helen C. White, 265-4637 (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania):  Professor & Chair.  Professor Shapiro has just finished The Mind Incarnate, a book in which he carefully examines the view that minds are multiply realizable (capable of many different kinds of realization) and that they are in some sense separable from the body.  The book challenges both these claims, drawing on research from neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and embodied cognition.  The book will be available late in 2003 (MIT Press).  In addition to his current research interest in multiple realizability, Shapiro has interests in evolutionary psychology, the psychology of perception, embodied cognition, and artificial intelligence.




Alan Sidelle, email, 5121 Helen C. White, 263-3724 (Ph.D, Cornell): Professor. Professor Sidelle works in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of language. His main interests include Conventionalism about necessity, individuation and ontology; the metaphysics of material objects; personal identity and survival; and internalism and externalism in epistemology. Publications include:




Marcus Singer, email, 5169 Helen C. White, 263-3727.   Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., Cornell, 1952.  Guggenheim Fellow, 1962.  APA President, 1985-86.  Taught mainly Ethics, Philosophy of Law, History of Ethics, Kant's Ethics, Sidgwick's Ethics, and American Philosophy.  
    Author: Generalization in Ethics (Knopf, 1961; London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963; Atheneum, 1971; Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1975); The Ideal of a Rational Morality: Philosophical Compositions (Clarendon Press, Oxford 2002).  
    Edited: Morals and Values (Scribner's, 1977); American Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1985); Reason, Reality, and Speculative Philosophy, by Arthur e. Murphy (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996); and Essays on Ethics and Method, by Henry Sidgwick (Clarendon Press, 2000).  Co-edited Reason and the Common Good, by Arthur E. Murphy (Prentice-Hall, 1963) and Legislative Intent and Other Essays on Law, Politics, and Morality, by Gerald C. MacCallum (UW Press, 1993).  
    Work in Progress: The Logic of Ethics: Justification and Proof (under contract to Clarendon Press) and Philosophy at Wisconsin: A History of the University of Wisconsin Philosophy Department



Elliott Sober, email, homepage, 5199 Helen C. White, 263-7478.  Elliott Sober's research is in philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology.  His books include:




Ivan Soll, email, 5115 Helen C. White, 263-0252 (Ph.D., Princeton): Professor. Continental European Philosophy, Aesthetics, Literary Theory, Philosophical Foundations of Psychology, Philosophy of Education. Publications include:




Dennis Stampe, email, 5147 Helen C. White, 263-3748 (D. Phil., Oxford): Professor. Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Freedom of Will. Professor Stampe has published essays on meaning; speech acts; reference; philosophy of linguistics; representation; and causal theories of linguistic and psychological phenomena. Some papers include:




Robert Streiffer, email, homepage, 5123 Helen C. White, 1411 Med. Sci., 263-9479 (Ph.D., MIT): Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics. Professor Streiffer's research interests are in ethical theory, political philosophy, and applied ethics, with a focus on ethical issues arising from modern biotechnology, especially modern agricultural biotechnology.



Keith E. Yandell, email, 5179 Helen C. White, 263-3725 (Ph.D., Ohio State University): Professor. Professor Yandell teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in the philosophy of religion and the history of modern philosophy, as well as courses in metaphysics, Indian philosophy, and religious studies. He is on the editorial boards of International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Sophia, editor of Blackwell's new series on basic books in philosophy, and working on books in Comparative Philosophy of Relgion and the Soul. His recent publications include:
 



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Graduate Students


Name
TA Office Information
Email addresses
Mo Abed  TA 5112 HCW
263-2482
mkabed@wisc.edu
Jaime Ahlberg jlahlberg@wisc.edu
Paul Anders  TA 5146 HCW 263-6149 panders@wisc.edu
Madeleine Arseneault TA 5162 HCW 263-3738 mlarseneault@wisc.edu
Vivi Atkin pvatkin@wisc.edu
Joseph (Joey) Baltimore TA 5170 HCW
262-2603
jbaltimore@wisc.edu
Martin Barrett mbrrtt@pobox.com
Kevin Brosnan kbrosnan@wisc.edu
Sara Chant srchant@wisc.edu
Thomas Drucker
Paul Dunn TA 5168 HCW 263-3737 prdunn@wisc.edu
Matt Ferkany TA 5164 HCW 263-1630 maferkany@wisc.edu
John Fields jefields@wisc.edu
Sara Friedemann TA 5164 HCW
263-1630
sfriedemann@wisc.edu
Shih-Che Fu   sfu@wisc.edu
Sara Gavrell-Ortiz phosa@rocketmail.com
Mark Gentry mcgentry@wisc.edu
Tim Hansel TA 5166 HCW
263-0776
thansel@wisc.edu
Colleen Harkins charkins@mail.uwc.edu
Fred Harrington TA 5172 HCW
263-2065
fjharrington@wisc.edu
Thomas Hedemann   thedemann@hotmail.com
Ken Hochstetter TA 5146 HCW 263-6149 norvil@bsafemail.com
Micheal Humiston TA 5142 HCW 263-2767 mphumiston@wisc.edu
Shahin Izadi TA 5170 HCW
262-2603
sizadi@wisc.edu
Chris Johnson ccjohnso@wisc.edu
Jeff Johnson jgjohnso@wisc.edu
Holly Kantin hakantin@wisc.edu
Jocelyn Johnson   jrjohns2@wisc.edu
Cora Lee Kleinhenz TA 5162 HCW
263-3738
clkleinhenz@wisc.edu
Pam Knoll pjknoll@wisc.edu
W. John Koolage TA 5160 HCW 263-0775 wjkoolage@wisc.edu
Chris Lang   cclang@wisc.edu
Jonathan Lang TA 5170 HCW
262-2603
jonathanlang@wisc.edu
Brad Majors bmmajors@wisc.edu
Sarah Marchand  smarchan@wisc.edu 
Brian Marohn TA 5112 HCW
263-2482
bdmarohn@wisc.edu
Eugene Marshall  TA 5160 HCW
263-0775
ejmarshall@wisc.edu
Corey Mather   TA 5142 HCW
263-2767
cmather33@hotmail.com 
Laura McAlinden lmcalind@wisc.edu 
Mark Mitchell   TA 5112 HCW
263-2482
mgmitchell@wisc.edu
Margaret Moore  TA 5191 HCW
265-5597
mem389@yahoo.com
Donald Moskowitz  dmoskowi@wisc.edu
Greg Mougin  gamougin@wisc.edu
Vitor Moura  vmoura@wisc.edu
Deborah Mower  TA 5164 HCW 263-1630  dsmower@wisc.edu
Greg Novack  TA 5174 HCW 263-7599  gmnovack@wisc.edu 
Laura Osinski losinski@wisc.edu
Fatih Ozturk  fsozturk@wisc.edu
Tasia Persson  TA 5142 HCW
263-2767
trpersson@wisc.edu
Alan Rubel  arubel@wisc.edu
Ben Sachs  TA 5168 HCW
262-3737
basachs@wisc.edu
Stephen Schmid  TA 5191 HCW
265-5597
seschmid@wisc.edu
Kim Schultz  kschult2@wisc.edu
Daniel Shriro    dbshriro@wisc.edu
Aaron Smuts aasmuts@wisc.edu
James Steadman  steadman@co.dane.wi.us 
Terence Sullivan    tsullivan@wisc.edu 
Richard Teng  rjteng@wisc.edu
Joshua Thurow  TA 5146 HCW
263-6149
jcthurow@wisc.edu
Joel Uckelman  TA 5174 HCW
263-7599
jduckelman@wisc.edu 
Rimas Uzgiris  ruzgiris@wisc.edu 
Joel Velasco  TA 5166 HCW
263-0776
jdvelasc@wisc.edu
Andrea Veltman  alveltman@wisc.edu 
Jason Walker jasonrwalker@yahoo.com
Justine Wells TA 5172 HCW
263-2065
justine@lcnl.wisc.edu
Ann Wolfe    abwolfe@wisc.edu 



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Nancy LeDuc, email, 5185 Helen C. White, 263-3700: General Office Secretary.  Contact for:
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Patty Winspur, email, 5185 Helen C. White, 263-5278: Graduate Secretary.  Contact for:
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         - New Student Orientation
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