Full-Time Faculty
Sean Aas
Assistant Professor & Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Email: sda6@georgetown.edu
Interests: Political philosophy, bioethics and metaethics
Frank Ambrosio
Associate Professor
Email: ambrosif@georgetown.edu
Interests: Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, especially the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida; Plato, Existentialism, Dante, and Christian Philosophy
William Blattner
Professor and Department Chair
Email: William.Blattner@georgetown.edu
Interests: Heidegger, Kant, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Philosophy of History
Alisa Carse
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Email: carsea@georgetown.edu
Interests: Moral Psychology, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Theory
Wayne Davis
Professor and President of the University Faculty Senate
Email: Wayne.Davis@georgetown.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Logic
John Greco
Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S Chair in Philosophy
Email: john.greco@georgetown.edu
Interests: Epistemology (especially skepticism, virtue epistemology, social epistemology); action theory; philosophy of religion; Thomas Reid.
Bryce Huebner
Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
Email: Bryce.Huebner@georgetown.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology
Ya Yun (Sherry) Kao
Assistant Teaching Professor
Email: yk652@georgetown.edu
Interests: Normative Ethics, Value Theory, Biomedical Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, History of Ethics, Social and Political philosophy, Chinese Philosophy
Quill Rebecca Kukla
Professor & Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Email: Rebecca.Kukla@georgetown.edu
Interests: Social epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science (especially medicine and geography), feminist and anti-oppressive philosophy
Mark Lance
Professor of Philosophy and Justice & Peace
Email: lancem@georgetown.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Anarchism
Neil Lewis
Professor and Coordinator of the Honors Program
Email: lewisn@georgetown.edu
Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics
David Lindeman
Assistant Teaching Professor
Email: David.Lindeman@georgetown.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Mind, and Psychology; Logic, Existentialism.
Maggie Little
Professor & Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Email: littlem@georgetown.edu
Interests: Ethics, Feminist Theory, Bioethics
Huaping Lu-Adler
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Placement
Interests: Kant, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Logic, Philosophy of Language
David Luban
University Professor of Law and Philosophy
Email: luband@law.georgetown.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence, Legal Ethics, Human Rights, Just War Theory
James Mattingly
Associate Professor
Email: jmm67@georgetown.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
Assistant Professor
Email: sm3551@georgetown.edu
Interests: American Indian and Indigenous Philosophy, Philosophies of Language, Feminist Epistemology, Philosophy of Race
Mark Murphy
Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt Chair of Religious Philosophy
Interests: Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy; History of Modern Philosophy
Terry Pinkard (On leave Fall 2020)
University Professor
Email: Terry.Pinkard@georgetown.edu
Interests: Hegel, European Philosophy after Kant
Joel Michael Reynolds
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies
Email: Joel.Reynolds@georgetown.edu
Interests: Philosophy of Disability, Bioethics, Social Epistemology, European Philosophy
Henry Richardson
Professor, Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and Director of Graduate Admissions
Email: Henry. Richardson@georgetown.edu
Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Practical Reasoning
Nancy Sherman (On leave Fall 2020)
University Professor
Email: shermann@georgetown.edu
Interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology, History of Moral Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy and Ancient Ethics, Military Ethics, Emotions
Karen Stohr
Ryan Term Associate Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Email: Karen.Stohr@georgetown.edu
Interests: Ethics, Bioethics
Daniel Sulmasy
Andre Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Acting Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Email: sulmasyd@georgetown.edu
Interests: Ethics of End-of-Life Decision Making, Ethics Education, and Spirituality in Medicine
Femi Táíwò
Assistant Professor
Interests: Ethics Theory, Social/Political Philosophy, Black Radical Traditions, and the Intersections of Philosophy and Social Science (particularly economics)
Wilfried Ver Eecke
Professor
Interests: Philosophy and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Hegel, Ethics of Economics, Lacan, Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Katherine Withy
Associate Professor
Email: Kate.Withy@georgetown.edu
Interests: Heidegger, 20th Century European Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
Affiliated Faculty
Affiliated Faculty teach courses in the Philosophy Department and may sit on doctoral committees.
Jason Brennan
Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor
McDonough School of Business
Erin M. Cline (new window)
Professor
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Heidi Feldman
Professor of Law and Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Philosophy Program
Georgetown University Law Center
John Hasnas
Professor and Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics
McDonough School of Business
John Keown
Rose F. Kennedy Professor in Christian Ethics
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
John Mikhail
Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs
Georgetown University Law Center
Edward Soule
Associate Professor
McDonough School of Business
Carol Taylor
Professor on the Educator Track
School of Nursing and Health Sciences
Kevin Tobia
Assistant Professor of Law
Georgetown Law
John DeGioia
University President