Faculty • Department of Philosophy • Boston University

Full Time Faculty

Hugh Baxter
Professor of Law and Philosophy
Office: STH 540
E-mail: hbaxter@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D.,Yale University; JD, Stanford University
Interests: Legal and Social Theory (particularly recent continental theory), Constitutional Law, Tort Law, Law of the Democratic Process, Habermas

Alisa Bokulich
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 511A
E-mail: abokulic@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Interests: Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Physics; Science, Technology and Values; History of Science

Peter Bokulich
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 534
E-mail: pbokulic@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Physics; Associate Director, Center for Philosophy and History of Science

Klaus Brinkmann
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 533
E-mail: brinkman@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Tübingen
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, German Idealism, Metaphysics, Ontology

Tian Yu Cao
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 515
E-mail: tycao@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences, History of Science and Methodology of Historiography of Science, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Social and Political Philosophy (with special interests in philosophical issues related to modernity and globalization)

Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Chair, Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 518
E-mail: dahlstro@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., St. Louis University
Interests: Phenomenology, German Idealism, Aesthetics

James Devlin
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
Office: 745 Comm. Ave.
E-mail: devlin@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Process Philosophy

Peter Diamandopoulos
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
Office: 704 Comm. Ave. Room 104
Phone: 617.358.0611
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: History of Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy

Juliet Floyd
Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 503
E-mail: jfloyd@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
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Aaron Garrett
Associate Chair, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 514
E-mail: garrett@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., New School for Social Research
Interests: Early Modern Philosophy, Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, History of Ethics

Charles L. Griswold
Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 624
E-mail: griswold@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Jaakko Hintikka
Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 502
E-mail: hintikka@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Helsinki
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science (including Cognitive Science), Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Philosophy (Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Peirce, Wittgenstein)

Walter Hopp
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 539
E-mail: hopp@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California
Interests: Phenomenology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

Victor Kestenbaum
Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 512
E-mail: vkestenb@bu.edu
Education: Ed.D., Rutgers University
Interests:American Philosophy, Pragmatism and Phenomenology, Philosophy and Literature, Phenomenology and Aesthetics

Manfred Kuehn
Director of Graduate Admissions, Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 513
E-mail: kuehnm@bu.edu
Education: PhD, McGill University
Interests: Kant, Hume, Reid, The French and German Enlightenments, Philosophy of Religion

David Lyons
Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law
Office: STH 540
E-mail: dbl@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: Philosophy of Law, Moral and Political Philosophy

Krzysztof Michalski
Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 536B
E-mail: michalski@iwm.at
Education: Ph.D., University of Warsaw
Interests: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Continental Philosophy; Director of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. (Fall semesters)

Robert C. Neville
Dean, School of Theology; Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology
Office: STH 112
E-mail: rneville@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Theology, Ethics, Political Theory, American Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy

David Roochnik
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 511
E-mail: roochnik@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Greek Literature, Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Philosophy and History of Rhetoric

Stanley Rosen
Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 640A
E-mail: srosen@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Contemporary Philosophy, Social and Political Thought

John Silber
President Emeritus, Boston University; University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Law
Office: 73 BSR
Phone: 617.353.4300
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Kant, Ethics. (Not currently teaching in the department.)

C. Allen Speight
Director of Placement, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Placement
Office: STH 517
E-mail: casp8@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Hegel and German Idealism, Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy

Susanne Sreedhar
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: 514
E-mail: sreedhar@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: political philosophy, especially the history of political philosophy, early modern philosophy, philosophy of gender

Alfred I. Tauber
Professor of Philosophy; Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine; Affiliate Faculty, Law, Medicine and Ethics Program
Office: STH 506
E-mail: atauber@bu.edu
Education: M.D., Tufts Medical School
Interests: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, History of Science and of Medicine; Director, Center for Philosophy and History of Science

Judson C. Webb
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 515
Phone: 617.353.7320
Education: Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Interests: Logic, Foundations of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind

Elie Wiesel
University Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Office: 147 BSR
E-mail: jhoberer@bu.edu
Education: Litt.D., L.H.D., Nobel Peace Prize
Interests: Philosophy and Literature, Judaica. (Courses periodically cross-listed for Philosophy graduate credit.)