Faculty & Instructors

Full-time Faculty

Sean Aas

Associate Professor & Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Interests: Political Philosophy, Bioethics and Metaethics
Email: sda46@georgetown.edu
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William Blattner

Professor
Interests: Heidegger, Kant, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Philosophy of History
Email: William.Blattner@georgetown.edu
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Alisa Carse

Associate Professor
Interests: Ethics, Applied Ethics, Moral Psychology, Gender Theory
Email: carsea@georgetown.edu

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Jonathan Fine

Assistant Professor
Interests: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy; Aesthetics; History of Ethics; Social/Political Philosophy
Email: jonathan.fine@georgetown.edu

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Will Fleisher

Assistant Professor & Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Digital Ethics
Interests: Epistemology, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
Email: Will.Fleisher@georgetown.edu

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John Greco

Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S Chair in Philosophy and Director of Graduate Admissions
Interests: Epistemology (especially skepticism, virtue epistemology, and social epistemology); Action Theory; Philosophy of Religion; Thomas Reid
Email: john.greco@georgetown.edu

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B Huebner

Professor
Interests: Buddhist Philosophy (especially early Yogācära), Aesthetics, and Philosophy of the Cognitive, Biological, and Social Sciences
Email: bryce.huebner@georgetown.edu
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Sherry (Ya-Yun) Kao

Assistant Teaching Professor
Interests: Normative Ethics, Value Theory, Biomedical Ethics, History of Ethics, Chinese Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
Email: yk652@georgetown.edu

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Quill R Kukla

Professor & Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Interests: Ethics, Bioethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Place, Feminist/Anti-Oppression Philosophy
Email: rk75@georgetown.edu
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David Lindeman

Assistant Teaching Professor
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Mind, and Psychology; Logic, Existentialism.
Email: David.Lindeman@georgetown.edu

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Maggie Little

Professor & Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Interests: Ethics, Feminist Theory, Bioethics
Email: littlem@georgetown.edu
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Huaping Lu-Adler

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Interests: Kant, History of Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Social Epistemology, Classical Chinese Philosophy
Email: hl530@georgetown.edu

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David Luban

University Professor of Law and Philosophy
Interests: Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence, Legal Ethics, Human Rights, Just War Theory
Email: luband@georgetown.edu

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James Mattingly

Professor
Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Epistemology, Agency/Action Theory, AI
Email: jmm67@georgetown.edu

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Mark C. Murphy

Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt Chair of Religious Philosophy and Department Chair
Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Religion
Email: murphym@georgetown.edu

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Joel Michael Reynolds

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies, Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and Director of Disability Studies Program
Interests: Philosophy of Disability, Bioethics, Phenomenology, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: Joel.Reynolds@georgetown.edu

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Henry Richardson

Professor, Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Practical Reasoning
Email: Henry. Richardson@georgetown.edu
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Nancy Sherman

University Professor
Interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology, History of Moral Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy and Ancient Ethics, Military Ethics, Emotions
Email: shermann@georgetown.edu
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Karen Stohr

Ryan Family Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Social Philosophy, and Bioethics
Email: Karen.Stohr@georgetown.edu
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Daniel P. Sulmasy

Andre Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Professor of Medicine, & Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Interests: Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine, Ethics of End-of-Life Decision Making, Medical Decision Making, Therapeutic Reasoning, Spirituality in Medicine
Email: sulmasyd@georgetown.edu

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Associate Professor
Interests: Social/Political Philosophy, Meta-Ethics
Email: Olufemi.Taiwo@georgetown.edu
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Wilfried Ver Eecke

Professor
Interests: Hegel, Philosophy of Mental Illness, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Economics, Lacan, French Philosophy of Language, Continental Philosophy
Email: vereeckw@georgetown.edu

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Thomas Williams

Isabelle A. and Henry D. Martin Professor of Medieval Philosophy
Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Ethics and Action Theory, and the Theology of Atonement
Email: thomas.williams@georgetown.edu
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Katherine Withy

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Interests: Heidegger, Phenomenological Existentialism, Ancient Philosophy, 20th-C. European Philosophy
Email: kaw84@georgetown.edu
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Visiting Faculty

David Shope

Assistant Teaching Professor
Email: ds1913@georgetown.edu 

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Molly Wilder

Assistant Teaching Professor
PhD Georgetown University, JD Georgetown University
Interests: Autonomy, Feminist Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, Professional Ethics of Lawyers, Philosophy of Tort Law, and Minors’ Rights
Email: mbw40@georgetown.edu

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Adjunct Instructors

Clark Donley
Adjunct Lecturer
Ph.D. Georgetown University, 2021
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Benjamin Elzinga
Adjunct Instructor
Ph.D., Georgetown University 2018
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Adam Jurkiewicz
Adjunct Instructor
MA, New York University; ABD, The Catholic University of America
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Thomas Mulherin
Adjunct Instructor
Ph.D., Notre Dame 2012
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David Pratt
Orthodox Christian Chaplain
Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Jeffrey Spike
Adjunct Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Chicago
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David Williams
Adjunct Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Chicago 2003
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Teaching Associates

Dominick Cooper
Teaching Associate
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Matthew Koshak
Teaching Associate
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Madeleine Leger
Teaching Associate
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Will Perrin
Teaching Associate
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Megan Ritz
Teaching Associate
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Andy Sullivan
Teaching Associate
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Yo Yang
Teaching Associate
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Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated faculty members teach courses in the Department of Philosophy and may sit on doctoral committees.

Jason Brennan

Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Term Professor, McDonough School of Business

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Erin M. Cline

Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies

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Heidi Feldman

Professor of Law and Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Philosophy Program, Georgetown University Law Center

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John Hasnas

Professor and Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, McDonough School of Business

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John Keown

Rose F. Kennedy Professor in Christian Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics

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John Mikhail

Carroll Professor of Jurisprudence, Georgetown University Law Center

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Edward Soule

Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business

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William Sullivan

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Chair in Bioethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and Professor of Family Medicine, School of Medicine

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Carol Taylor

Professor on the Educator Track, School of Nursing and Health Sciences

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Kevin Tobia

Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

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Retired & Emeritus Faculty

Frank Ambrosio
Associate Professor Emeritus
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Tom Beauchamp
Professor Emeritus

Denis Bradley
Professor Emeritus
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John Brough
Professor Emeritus
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Wayne Davis
Professor Emeritus
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Mark Henninger
Professor Emeritus
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Steven Kuhn
Professor Emeritus
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Mark Lance
Professor Emeritus
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Neil Lewis
Professor Emeritus
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Judith Lichtenberg
Professor Emerita
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Terry Pinkard
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
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G. Madison Powers
Francis J. McNamara Jr., Professor Emeritus
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LeRoy Walters
Professor Emeritus
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Linda Wetzel
Associate Professor Emerita
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