Other Academics
On this page you will find our Academic Teaching Staff, Postdoctoral Fellows, Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty, and Emeriti and Retired Faculty.
Academic Teaching Staff |
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| Peter Andes (PhD, University of Alberta) |
Specialization: Moral and Political Philosophy, Existentialism |
| Richard Kover (PhD, Leuven) |
Specialization: Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Psychoanalytic Theory, Religious Existentialism, Political and Cultural Theory, Philosophical Anthropology |
| Chris Lepock (PhD, University of Alberta) |
Specialization: Epistemology, Logic |
| Michael Lockhart (PhD, University of Alberta) |
Specialization: Epistemology |
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Jay Worthy |
Specialization: Continental Philosophy, Ethics |
Postdoctoral Fellows |
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| Luke Kersten (PhD, University of Edinburgh) |
Specialization: Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Philosophy of Science |
| Justin Mooney (PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
Specialization: Non-Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion |
Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty |
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| Brett Buchanan (Professor of Philosophy & Dean of Arts, Concordia University of Edmonton) |
Specialization: Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Environmental Humanities, and Animal Studies |
| Don Carmichael (Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Alberta) |
Specialization: Political Philosophy, particularly the history of Western political thought, contemporary normative political philosophy (especially topics of rights and justice), selected major thinkers (Aristotle, Hobbes, Rawls, Taylor) |
| Jeffrey Dudiak (Professor, Philosophy, The King's University) |
Specialization: Contemporary Continental Philosophy (especially Levinas), Philosophy of Religion, Ethics. |
| Travis Dumsday (Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Concordia University of Edmonton) |
Specialization: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Natural Theology, Scholastic tradition (Medieval and Contemporary) |
| Edwin Etieyibo (Professor, Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) |
Specialization: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, African Philosophy |
| James Gaa (Professor Emeritus, Accounting, Alberta School of Business) |
Specialization: Business and Professional Ethics (especially the accounting profession and codes of professional ethics), Ethics and Public Policymaking (with a focus on theoretical aspects of setting professional standards) and Behavioral Ethics |
| Allen Hazen (PhD, University of Pittsburgh) |
Specialization: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, History of Philosophy |
| Cressida Heyes (Professor, Political Science, University of Alberta) |
Specialization: Feminist Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophies of the Body, Foucault, Wittgenstein |
| Matthew Kostelecky (Associate Professor, Philosophy, St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta) |
Specialization: Medieval Philosophy (especially theories of cognition in the later middle ages), Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Religion. |
| Nathan Kowalsky (Associate Professor, Philosophy, St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta) |
Specialization: Environmental Philosophy and Ethics, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Technology. |
| Janet Wesselius (Associate Professor, Philosophy, Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta) |
Specialization: Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science; feminist theory. |
Emeriti and Retired Faculty |
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| Richard Bosley † (PhD, University of Gottingen) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: Aristotelian Logic, Ancient and Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Ancient Chinese Philosophy. E-mail: richard.bosley@ualberta.ca |
| Robert Burch (PhD, University of Toronto) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Heidegger and Hegel), Phenomenology, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy and Literature, Kant. Office: Assiniboia Hall 2-51, (780) 492-3307 E-mail: robert.burch@ualberta.ca |
| Allen Carlson (PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) |
Professor Emeritus |
| Ferrel Christensen (PhD, University of Indiana) |
Professor Emeritus |
| Wesley Cooper (PhD, University of Calgary) |
Professor Emeritus |
| Glenn Griener (PhD, University of Western Ontario) |
Associate Professor retired |
| Bruce Hunter (PhD, Brown University) |
Associate Professor Retired |
| Bernard Linsky (PhD, Stanford University) |
Professor Emeritus |
| Cameron Mackenzie (MLitt, University of Edinburgh) |
Associate Professor Retired Specialization: Ethics. E-mail: jcm_wynd@yahoo.co.uk |
| Adam Morton † (PhD, Princeton University) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: Epistemology, Decision Theory, the boundary between Ethics and Philosophy of Mind. |
| Jeff Pelletier (PhD, UCLA) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: Philosophy of Logic and Language, Modern Philosophical Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Ancient Philosophy. E-mail: jeff.pelletier@ualberta.ca |
| Alexander Rueger (PhD, Phil. University of Konstanz) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: History and Philosophy of Science (especially Physics), Kant, History of Aesthetics. E-mail: alex.rueger@ualberta.ca |
| Peter A. Schouls (PhD, University of Toronto) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: Enlightenment Concepts such as Freedom, Progress, Revolution; Environmental Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy. E-mail: pschouls@telus.net |
| David Sharp (PhD, Princeton University) |
Associate Professor Retired Specialization: Philosophy of Science, Logic. E-mail: david.sharp@ualberta.ca |
| Roger Shiner (PhD, Cambridge University) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: Philosophy of Law, Greek Philosophy, Aesthetics. E-mail: rshiner@exchange.ubc.ca |
| Martin Tweedale (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: Medieval Scholastic Philosophy, particularly Logic, Metaphysics and the Interpretation of Aristotle, Ancient Greek Philosophy. E-mail: martin.tweedale@ualberta.ca |
| Fred Van De Pitte (PhD, University of Southern California) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: Descartes, Kant, Modern Philosophy. |
| Margaret Van De Pitte (PhD, University of Southern California) |
Professor Emeritus Specialization: Aesthetics, Contemporary European Philosophy, Philosophy of the Environment. |