Participating Faculty

DePaul University Interests Kevin Thompson Philosophy German Idealism, Contemporary French Philosophy, and the history of political theory Avery Goldman Philosophy Late Modern Philosophy, particularly Kant, and Phenomenology, focusing on issues concerning both epistemology and aesthetics Loyola University-Chicago Ardis Collins Philosophy Modern philosophy, especially Hegel's Phenomenology, Hegelian social philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, and Hegel's critique of Kantian morality. Andrew Cutrofello Philosophy Kant, continental philosophy, and metaphilosophical reflections on the history and meaning of the analytic/continental distinction. David Ingram Philosophy Philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, philosophy of science/social science, continental philosophy (French and German) with significant overlaps in analytic Anglo-American philosophy Adriaan Peperzak Philosophy Hegel, Levinas, Plato, Aristotle, Bonaventura, Descartes, Heidegger, and Ricoeur; thematic questions in ethics, social and political philosophy, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of religion Marquette University Sebastian Luft Philosophy 19th & 20th Century European Philosophy, esp. Kant, German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Culture Claudia Schmidt Philosophy Hume, Kant, Philosophy of History Northwestern University Kyla Ebels Duggan Philosophy Moral theory, political philosophy, Kant, History of ethics Sean Ebels Duggan Philosophy Philosophy of logic and mathematics, early modern philosophy, Kant, and early analytic philosophy James Farr German Political theory and the history of political thought, history and philosophy of social science Peter Fenves Literature, German, Jewish Studies German literature and philosophy, contemporary French thought Jonathan Garthoff Philosophy Moral theory, political philosophy, especially Kantian traditions within these Bonnie Hoenig Political Science, Law Political theory, Arendt Cristina Lafont Philosophy German philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and critical theory; philosophy of language, contemporary moral and political philosophy Axel Mueller Philosophy Philosophy of science, American Pragmatism, Kant Helmut Müller-Sievers German, Classics Interrelations between literature, science, philosophy, and the history of philology Kenneth Seeskin Philosophy Jewish philosophy, ancient and medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion Sam Weber German Critical Theory, Frankfurt School Rachel Zuckert Philosophy Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, aesthetics Purdue University Patrick Kain Philosophy Kant, Moral philosophy, 17th and 18th century philosophy. Jacqueline Mariña Philosophy Kant, Schliermacher, Religion and ethics University of Chicago James Conant Philosophy Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, Wittgenstein, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, William James, Frege, Carnap, Putnam, Cavell, Rorty, and McDowell Michael Forster Philosophy Kant, Hegel, Herder, Wittgenstein, ancient philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of history Patchen Markell Political Science Post-Kantian German philosophy, political theory, and social theory, Hegle, Habermas, Arendt Robert Pippin Philosophy, Social Thought Kant, German Idealism, Hegel, Nietzsche, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Philosophy, Critical Theory, Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy Robert J. Richards History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology History and philosophy of biology and psychology, German Romanticism Linda M.G. Zerilli Political Science, Gender Studies Political theory, feminist theory, gender and politics, Kant, Hannah Arendt University of Illinois-Chicago Sam Fleischacker Philosophy Moral and political philosophy, Kant, Adam Smith, aesthetics, philosophy of religion Sally Sedgwick Philosophy Kant and Hegel Daniel Sutherland Philosophy Kant, early modern philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science Astrida Orle Tantillo Germanic Studies Eighteenth-century literature and history and philosophy of science Robert R. Williams German, Philosophy, Religious Studies Continental Philosophy (Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault and Levinas) and German thought from Kant to Nietzsche, specialising in Hegel University of Notre Dame Karl Ameriks Philosophy History of Modern Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Kant and Hegel. Vittorio Hösle German, Philosophy, Government Ethics, metaphysics, political philosophy, aesthetics, intellectual history Anja Jauernig Philosophy Kant, Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Leibniz and Wolff), 19th-early 20th century German Philosophy (esp. Schopenhauer and Marburg neo-Kantianism), Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics G. Felicitas Munzel Liberal Studies, Philosophy Kant's moral philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, and philosophy of education Robert E. Norton German 18th- through 20th-century German literature and philosophy, aesthetics and ethics, German intellectual history Mark W. Roche German, Philosophy German philosophy, literature, film, and higher education. Fred Rush Philosophy History of Continental Philosophy, Kant, Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Social and Political Philosophy Dana Villa Political Science Political Theory, history of political thought (emphasis on 19th and 20th century Continental tradition)