Visiting
Professors
The department invites a number of distinguished
philosophers to Boston University for a semester
or year.
Peter Vanderschraaf
John Findlay Visiting Professor, 2007-08
Education: Ph.D. University of California at Irvine
Interests: political philosophy, game theory, ethics, Hobbesian and Humean moral and political theory
Anat
Biletzki
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Fall 2006
Education: Ph.D. Tel Aviv
University
Home Institution: Tel Aviv
University
Interests: Wittgenstein, Hobbes,
human rights, philosophy of language, philosophy
of religion
Alan
White
John Findlay Visiting
Professor, Fall 2005
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania
State University
Home Institution: Mark Hopkins
Professor of Philosophy at Williams College
Interests: Hegel, Schelling,
Nietzsche, the intersection of "continental" and "analytic" philosophy
Kenneth
P. Winkler
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Spring 2005
Education: Ph.D., The University
of Texas at Austin
Home Institution: Class of
1919 50th Reunion Professor of Philosophy,
Wellesley College
Interests: Early modern philosophy,
metaphysics and epistemology, logic, philosophy
of religion, and environmental philosophy.
Stephen
Mulhall
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Fall 2002
Education: Ph.D., Balliol
College
Home Institution: All Souls
College, Oxford
Interests: Wittgenstein, Heidegger
and Kierkegaard, Political Philosophy, and
Philosophy of Religion
Thomas
Ricketts
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Spring 2002
Education: Ph.D., University
of Michigan
Home Institution: University
of Pennsylvania
Interests: Philosophy of Language,
History of Analytic Philosophy, Frege, Wittgenstein,
Logical Positivism, Logic
Jenny
Teichman
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Spring 2002
Education: B. Phil., Oxford
Home Institution: Emeritus
Fellow of New Hall College in the University
of Cambridge
Interests: Ethics, Applied
Ethics, Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics
David
Wiggins
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Fall 2001
Education: M.A. Oxford University)
Home Institution: Wykeham
Professor of Logic (Emeritus), Oxford University
Interests: Logic, Metaphysics,
Ethics
Rémi
Brague
John Findlay Visiting
Professor, Spring 2001 and 1995
Education: Docteur es-Lettres
d' etat Université Paris IV
Home Institution: Professor
of Philosophy at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne
(Paris I)
Interests: Greek Philosophy;
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Drew
Hyland
John Findlay Visiting
Professor, Fall 2000
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania
State University
Home Institution: Dana Professor
of Philosophy, Trinity College (Connecticut)
Interests: Greek Philosophy,
Nietzche, Heidegger, 20th Century Continental
Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, and Philosophy
of Sport
Owen
Flanagan
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Spring 2000
Education: Ph.D., Boston University
Home Institution: Professor
of Philosophy, Duke University
Interets: Philosophy of Mind,
Philosophy of Psychology, Ethics, Moral Psychology,
Contemporary Ethical Theory
David
Wong
John Findlay Visiting
Professor, Spring 1999
Education: Ph.D., Princeton
University
Home Institution: Professor
of Philosophy, Duke University
Interests: Ethical Theory,
Moral Psychology, Comparative Ethics, Chinese
Philosophy
William Desmond
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Spring 1997
Education: PhD, Pennsylvania
State University
Interests: Metaphysics, Hegel,
Aesthetics
Henry
Allison
John Findlay
Visiting Professor, Spring 1995
Education: Ph.D., New School
for Social Research
Interests: Kant,
Spinoza, German Idealism, Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Century Philosophy
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