Virginia Philosophers

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Map of Virginia's Colleges and Universities

VA PHILOSOPHY CENTERS and INSTITUTES

JMU's Logic and Reasoning Institute

GMU's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

W&L's Roger Mudd Center for Ethics

PRIVATE NON-PROFIT FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS offering an Undergraduate Philosophy Major

Many of these institutions are members of The Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV).

Many of these institutions are members of The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (VFIC)

Christendom College (Front Royal)

Emory & Henry College (Emory)

Ian Hensley (ancient Greek and Roman philosophy)
Ben Letson (ethics, bioethics, modern and contemporary philosophy, comparative philosophy)

Ferrum College (Ferrum)

Gary Angel (phenomenology and existentialism, philosophy of religion and theology, hermeneutics, metaphysics)
Jack Corvin (ethics, philosophy of law, philosophy of history, 19th century continental philosophy

Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney)

Events & Speakers

Marc Hight (early modern philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of social science)
James Janowski (ethics, philosophy of art, social philosophy)
Patrick Wilson

Hollins College (Roanoke)

James Patrick Downey (metaphysics, critical thinking, logic)
Michael Gettings (philosophy of art, modal logic, modal metaphysics, language

Liberty University (Lynchburg)

Gary Habermas (philosophy of history, Christian apologetics, religious doubt, personal suffering)
Edward Martin (metaphysics, philosophy of religion, early modern philosophy)
David Baggett (ethics, philosophy and popular culture, philosophy of religion, philosophy of sport)
David Beck (ancient philosophy, philosophy of religion)
Mark Foreman (bioethics, Christian thought)
Craig Hinkson (history of philosophy, Kierkegaard)
Michael Jones (comparative philosophy, philosophy of religion)

Lynchburg College (Lynchburg)

Events & Speakers

Thomas Brickhouse (ancient philosophy)
Stephen Dawson (political philosophy, philosophy of religion)
Nicolas Frank (political philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of law)

Marymount College (Arlington)

Michael Boylan (ethics, social/political philosophy, philosophy of science, history of philosophy, philosophy and literature)
Ariane Economos
Adam Kovach (metaphysics, philosophy of psychology)

Randolph College (Lynchburg)

David Schwartz (applied ethics, aesthetics)
Kaija Mortensen (metaphilosophy, epistemology, mind)

Randolph-Macon College (Ashland)

Donna Turney
Benjamin Huff (ethics, comparative philosophy, ancient greek philosophy, philosophy of mind)
Scott Girdner (philosophy of religion)
Robert Gray

Roanoke College (Salem)

Brent Adkins (19th and 20th century European philosophy, modern philosophy, political philosophy)
James Peterson (bioethics)
Hans Zorn (philosophy of religion, ancient & medieval philosophy, metaphysics

Southern Virginia University (Buena Vista)

Jan-Erik Jones (modern philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics)
John Armstrong (ancient philosophy, ethics, political philosophy)

University of Richmond (Richmond)

Events & Speakers

Geoffrey Goddu (language, mind, logic, science fiction)
Uygar Abaci (early modern philosophy, especially Kant)
James Hall
David Lefkowitz (political philosophy, philosophy of law, ethics)
Miriam McCormick (early modern, epistemology, ethics)
Brannon McDaniel (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science)
Ladelle McWhorter (20th century French and German philosophy, queer theory, political theory)
Nancy Schauber (ethics, philosophy of law, ancient philosophy)
Gary Shapiro

University of Richmond, Jepson School of Leadership Studies (Richmond)

Virginia Union University (Richmond)

Peter Sutton (philosophy of language, decision theory, logic, philosophy of mind, metaethics, applied ethics)

Virginia Wesleyan College (Norfolk)

Steven Emmanuel (moral and religious philosophy)
Patrick Goold (early modern philosophy)
Larry Hultgren (bioethics)
Cathal Woods (ancient philosophy, reasoning, happiness)

Washington & Lee University (Lexington)

Events & Speakers

Paul Gregory (philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, quine)
Melina Bell (social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, feminist philosophy)
Greg Cooper (professional and normative ethics, public policy, philosophy of science)
Nathaniel Goldberg (epistemology, Kant, metaphysics, philosophy of language)
Angela Smith (moral and political philosophy, moral psychology, ancient philosophy)
Erin Taylor (normative ethics, political philosophy, bioethics)
Florentien Verhage (phenomenology, continental philosophy, cognitive science, feminist philosophy)

GRADUATE PROGRAMS in Philosophy

George Mason University (Fairfax)

Erik Angner (history and philosophy of economics, ethics, social and political philosophy)
Derek Boyd (political philosophy, economics, ethics, bioethics)
Rose Cherubin (ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy)
Martin De Nys (19th & 20th century continental philosophy, political philosophy, ontology)
Christopher Diteresi (philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, American pragmatism)
Lisa Eckenwiler (bioethics, health care ethics, public health ethics, feminist ethical and political theory)
Wayne Froman (contemporary continental, phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics)
Donald Gregory (logic, critical thinking, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion)
Emmett Holman (epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology)
Rachel Jones (Kant, Irigaray, Nietzsche, feminist theory)
Theodore Kinnaman (early modern philosophy)
Andrew Light (environmental ethics and policy, ethics of emerging technologies, risk assessment)
Roger Paden (social and political philosophy, ethics and applied ethics, environmental ethics)
Mark Sagoff (public policy, environmental ethics, bioethics, philosophy of technology, philosophy of economics)
Marek Sojka (philosophy and literature)
Gwynne Taraska (public policy (energy and climate), classical and nonclassical logics)
Erick Valdes (bioethics)

University of Virginia (Charlottesville)

Events & Speakers

Sahar Akhtar (political philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of economics)
Elizabeth Barnes (metaphysics, social philosophy, feminist philosophy, ethics)
Talbot Brewer (ethics, legal and political philosophy)
Ross Cameron (metaphysics, logic, history of metaphysics, philosophy of religion)
James Cargile (epistemology, ethics, history of philosophy, logic, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics)
Daniel Devereux (ancient, metaphysics)
Brie Gertler (mind, epistemology, metaphysics, methodology of philosophy)
Paul Humphreys (philosophy of science, logic, metaphysics, epistemology, mind)
Harold Langsam (mind, epistemology)
Antonia LoLordo (early modern philosophy)
Loren Lomasky (ethics, legal and political philosophy, philosophy of gastronomy)
Trenton Merricks (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, mind)
Walter Ott (history of modern philosophy, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology)
Jorge Secada (early modern philosophy, medieval, ethics, political philosophy)
John Simmons (ethics, legal and political philosophy)
Rebecca Stangl (ethics, history of philosophy)

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg)

Events & Speakers

Sukaina Hirji (Aristotle, ancient philosophy, ethics)
Benjamin Jantzen (philosophy of science)
Jim Klagge (Wittgenstein, moral philosophy, metaphysics, 20th century analytic philosophy)
Douglas Lind (philosophy of law, pragmatism, Wittgenstein, indigenous law)
Deborah Mayo (philosophy of statistics, philosophy of science)
Michael Moehler (moral and political philosophy)
Lydia Patton (history and philosophy of science, Kant and Neo-Kantianism)
Joseph Pitt (history and philosophy of science and technology)
Kelly Trogdon (history and philosophy of science and technology)
Daniel Wodak (metaethics, normative ethics, and philosophy of law)

PUBLIC NON-PROFIT FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS offering an Undergraduate Philosophy Major

Christopher Newport University (Newport News)

Events & Speakers

Deborah Campbell (19th & 20th century continental, existentialism, phenomenology, medical ethics, feminism)
Matthew Homan (early modern philosophy)
Elizabeth Jelinek (classical, philosophy of science, medieval philosophy, epistemology and metaphysics)
Kip Redick (philosophy of space/place, environmental studies, religious communication and aesthetics)
Eric Silverman (medieval , ethics, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, popular culture and philosophy)
George Teschner (comparative philosophy, continental, language and literature, environmental philosophy)
Lori Underwood (Kant studies, logic and critical thinking, epistemology, legal reasoning, philosophy of law)

College of William & Mary (Williamsburg)

Events & Speakers

Victoria Costa (social & political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of education, environmental ethics, bioethics)
Timothy Costelloe (early modern philosophy, moral philosophy, aesthetics)
Paul Davies (problems in biology, neuroscience, and psychology)
Laura Ekstrom (metaphysics, philosophy of religion, applied ethics, action theory and moral psychology)
Christopher Freiman (political philosophy, normative ethics, applied ethics, moral psychology)
Joshua Gert (practical rationality, metaethics, philosophy of color, philosophy of language)
Jonah Goldwater (metaphysics)
Aaron Griffith (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant)
Alan Goldman (epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of law)
Matthew Haug (philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science)
Noah Lemos (epistemology, ethics)
Tucker McKinney
Valerie Philbrick-DeBrava (normative and applied ethics)
Elizabeth Radcliffe (early modern philosophy, moral philosophy and metaethics, action theory)
Philip Swenson (agency, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion)
Chris Tucker (epistemology, philosophy of religion, ethics, philosophy of mind)
Chad Vance (metaphysics)

James Madison University (Harrisonburg)

Thomas Adajian (metaphysics, aesthetics, logic)
Pia Antolic-Piper (medieval and ancient philosophy, aesthetics)
Charles Bolyard (medieval, epistemology, metaphysics, classical, early modern)
Franklin Debrot
Daniel Flage (history of modern, logic, critical thinking)
Patrick Fleming (ethics, metaethics and history of modern philosophy)
Jeffrey Goodman (metaphysics, language, mind, epistemology, metaphilosophy)
William Hawk (social & political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion)
Steven Hoeltzel (Kant, post-Kantian philosophy, Fichte, phenomenology, existentialism, contemporary philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind)
William Knorpp (metaphysics, epistemology)
Tracy Lupher (physics, science, metaphysics, logic, language, analytical philosophy)
Jesse Newton (early modern philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of religion)
Samuel Nicholson (philosophy of mind)
William O'Meara (phenomenology, existentialism, pragmatism, Karl Marx, ethics, critical thinking)
Mark Piper (normative ethics, applied ethics, moral theory)
Michael Trocchia
Anne van Leeuwen (19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy)
Andrea Veltman (moral theory, social and political philosophy)
Anne Wiles (ancient, medieval, metaphysics, epistemology)

Longwood University (Farmville)

Adam Blincoe
Mark Lukas (ethical theory, history of philosophy)
Eric Moore (ethical Theory, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, metaethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic)
Charles Repp (aesthetics, value theory)

Old Dominion University (Norfolk)

William H. Brenner (Wittgenstein, philosophy of religion, modern philosophy, and logic)
Melissa Bristow
Anne Cahill (history of philosophy, applied ethics)
Lawrence Hatab (19th and 20th century continental, ancient)
William Hathaway (philosophy of religion, philosophy of psychology)
Andrew Kissel (philosophy of mind, free will)
Teresa Kouri Kissel (philosophy of logic, mathematics, and language)
Shannon Love
Mary Marshall (aesthetics)
Dale Miller (ethics, social-political philosophy)
Yvette E. Pearson (bioethics)
Justin Remhof (19th and 20th century European philosophy and meteaphysics)
Chad Weiner (ancient philosophy)
Nicole Willock (Asian philosophy and religions)
D.E. Wittkower (value theory applied to technology, business, media and popular culture, philosophy of race and gender)

Radford University (Radford)

Guy Axtell (epistemology, metaphysics, science technology and society studies, philosophy of religion)
Gilburt Goffstein (ethics, history of philosophy, critical social theory)
Sharon Hartline (ethics, applied ethics, modern philosophy, feminist philosophy)
Glen Martin (philosophy of religion, philosophy of language,history of philosophy, comparative philosophy, peace studies)

University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg)

David Ambuel (ancient philosophy, Indian and Asian philosophy, metaphysics, Kant)
Mehdi Aminrazavi (medieval philosophy, Islamic philosophy, philosophy of religion, Eastern religions, metaphysics)
Jason Matzke (ethics, applied ethics, philosophy of law, social and political philosophy)
Nina Mikhalevsky (aesthetics, ethics, political and social theory, American philosophy, history of philosophy)
Craig Vasey (contemporary French and German philosophy, Marx, Nietzsche, feminism, race, phenomenology and existentialism)

Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)

Ken Akiba (metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic)
Andrew Alwood (metaethics, philosophy of language)
Alexander Anderson (American pragmatism)
Kevin Brosnan (philosophy of science, philosophy of biology)
Stephen Carey (Marxism, existentialism)
Anthony J. Ellis (ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law)
Eugene Mills (philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology)
Andrew Moon (epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind)
Robert Redmon (philosophy of language, medical ethics, modern philosophy)
James Scow (philosophy of language)
Jonathan Shear (philosophy of mind)
Donald Smith (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion)
Catherine Sutton (metaphysics)
Miles Tucker (meta-ethics, normative ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics)
Mikhail (Mike) Valdman (ethics, political philosophy)

Virginia State University (Petersburg)

Majid Amini (philosophical logic, philosophical psychology, philosophy of religion, postcolonial philosophical thought)
- Renee Hill (political philosophy, contemplative philosophy)