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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Full-time Faculty
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
Jonathan Fine
Assistant Professor
Interests: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy; Aesthetics; History of Ethics; Social/Political Philosophy
Email: jonathan.fine@georgetown.edu
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
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
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
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
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
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
James Mattingly
Professor
Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Epistemology, Agency/Action Theory, AI
Email: jmm67@georgetown.edu
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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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