Faculty Research Areas
Department Chair
David Laraway
Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature and Cultures
- Hispanic Literature and Culture (Borges, Spanish-American Poetry, Basque and Basque-American literature, and culture)
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy of Literature
- 20th-Century European Philosophy
- Philosophy in Spain and Latin America
Professors
James E. Faulconer
- Contemporary European Philosophy
- Philosophy of Religion
- History of Philosophy
Associate Professors
Travis Anderson
- Philosophy of Art and Architecture
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Heidegger
Ryan Christensen
- Logic
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Religion
David Jensen
- Ethics
- Kant
- Philosophy of Language
Assistant Professors
Gordon B. Mower
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Chinese and East Asian Philosophy
Katie Paxman
- Early Modern Philosophy, especially David Hume
- Moral Psychology
- History of Philosophy of Emotion
Nathan Rockwood
- Early Modern Philosophy, especially Locke & Descartes
- Philosophy of Religion
- Epistemology
Justin White
- 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy
- Philosophy of Agency
- Moral Psychology
Michael Hansen
- Mind
- Epistemology
- Early Modern Philosophy, especially Leibniz and Spinoza
Derek Haderlie
- Metaethics
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
Adjuncts
Michael Arts
- Philosophy of Language
- History of Philosophy
- Wittgenstein and Peirce
Kathleen Bingham
- Intersection of rhetoric and aesthetics
- Continental philosophy especially existentialism
- feminist theory
Eric Blum
- Philosophy of Law
- Business Ethics
Brandon Bowen
- Political Philosophy
- Ethics
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Philosophy of Religion
Judson Burton
- Philosophy of Religion
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Mind
Chad Conrad
- Ethics
- Philosophy of Religion
Angela Wentz Faulconer
- Medical Ethics
- Applied Ethics
- Moral and Political Philosophy
Darin Crawford Gates
- Normative Philosophy
- Business Ethics
- Computer Science Ethics
- Phenomenology