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UC Distinguished Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1996
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0494, Phone: (858) 822-4910
Ancient philosophy (particularly Plato), early modern philosophy (particularly Locke and Berkeley), ethics, and jurisprudence
Faculty
Department Chair
Faculty
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Professor
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2009
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0458, Phone: (858) 822-2685
Normative ethics; individual responsibility for collective action; complicity; war ethics; ethics of benefiting from injustice -
Associate Teaching Professor
Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, 2015
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0497, Tel: (858) 822-2806
Applied ethics with a focus on human reproduction and responsibility -
UC Distinguished Professor
Valtz Family Endowed Chair in Philosophy
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1985
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0480, Phone: (858) 534-4881
Ethical theory, history of ethics, and jurisprudence; historical and systematic perspectives on practical reason, moral demands, and the normativity of ethics; nature of law and legal interpretation in substantive areas of constitutional and criminal jurisprudence -
UC Distinguished Professor
Tata Chancellor Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1997
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0456, Phone: (858) 822-4911Philosophy of physics, the metaphysics of science, and philosophy of science in general
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0466, Phone: (858) 246-2499Theoretical philosophy, including epistemology, logic, decision theory, and philosophy of language
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UC Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0449, Phone: (858) 793-1979
Philosophy of the natural, social and policy sciences with specialization in physics and economics; questions of causality, objectivity in science, and evidence, especially for evidence-based policy -
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2019
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0493, Phone: (858) 534-9281Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics, decision theory, Chinese philosophy -
Professor
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2000
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0453, Phone: (858) 534-6812
Philosophy of mind, language, and perception, particularly as these are informed by the cognitive sciences; color and color vision -
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2010
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0495, Phone: (858) 534-6643
Philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science; philosophical issues that arise from the investigation of human haptic touch; multisensory experience, spatial representation, the affective character of perception, and the relationship between perception and bodily awareness -
Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1985
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0492, Phone: (858) 822-0473
Critical philosophy of race, 19th century German philosophy (especially Hegel), role theory -
Professor
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2003
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0451, Phone: N/A
Early Greek philosophy; Aristotle Studies; Hellenistic philosophy; the reception of Greco-Roman philosophy in modern philosophy and science; the reconstruction of lost and fragmentary works; and comparative ancient philosophy -
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2018
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 – Arts & Humanities - Room 0445, Phone: TBDPhilosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics & epistemology
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2017
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0450, Phone: (858) 534-6802
Conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology, public understanding of and participation in science, and philosophy of environmental conservation -
Teaching Professor
Ph.D. University of Western Australia, 2011
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0491, Phone (858) 534-9111
Applied ethics, normative ethics and political philosophy -
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2018
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0498, Phone (858) 534-9190
Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle's moral psychology and ethics. And Greco-Roman medicine, especially Galen -
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Leeds, England, 2012
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0499, Phone (858) 534-2566
Metaphysics of science, especially modality, fundamentality, structuralism, naturalism, and realism -
Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0479, Phone: (858) 822-3658
Moral psychology, ethics, and philosophy of action -
UC Distinguished Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1996
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0494, Phone: (858) 822-4910
Ancient philosophy (particularly Plato), early modern philosophy (particularly Locke and Berkeley), ethics, and jurisprudence -
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2019
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 – Arts & Humanities - Room 443, Phone: TBDPhilosophy of language and mind, especially their intersections with value theory and social philosophy; conceptual engineering; philosophy of artificial intelligence
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Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1989
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0482, Phone: (858) 534-8504
Foundational issues involving knowledge, truth, and logic -
UC Distinguished Professor
Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1986
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities – Room 0447, Phone: (858) 534-3072Ancient Philosophy and Metaphysics
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Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2007
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0496, Phone: (858) 822-2686
History of modern European philosophy, with focuses on Kant and German Idealism, early analytic philosophy, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, critical theory and the philosophy of culture (incl aesthetics); the reception-history of European philosophy in the Americas (esp the US and Mexico); Mexican philosophy -
Professor
Ph.D. Stanford, 2001
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0468, Phone: (858) 534-8135Moral psychology, free will, moral responsibility, Latin American and Latinx philosophy
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UC Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 1994
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0486, Phone: (858) 822-0082
Kant's theoretical philosophy and its place within modern philosophy and science; early modern philosophy (especially Leibniz), German idealism and the history of philosophy of science -
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Yale University, 2020
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 – Arts & Humanities - Room 0470, Phone: TBDEthics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, and just war theory
Faculty Affiliates
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Valerie Soon
vsoon@ucsd.edu
Assistant Professor, Political Science; Faculty Affiliate, Philosophy
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Duke University
Office: SSB
Distributive justice and liberty, especially how arrangements in the social sphere, such as social norms and network structures, should influence institutional arrangements in the political sphere. Also interested in questions related to social capital, measures of segregation, spatial inequality, and reparative justice. -
Associate Professor, Political Science; Faculty Affiliate, Philosophy
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Michigan, 2011
Office: SSB 387
Political philosophy, philosophy of social science, game theory and social choice theory, political economy.
Emeriti Faculty
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Henry E. Allison
Professor Emeritus
Kant, Spinoza, German idealism, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century philosophy
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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1971
Ancient philosophy centered around ethics, metaphysics, science, technology and human values -
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1975
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0489, Phone: (858) 534-6810
Political and moral philosophy, with an emphasis on theories of justice; some applied ethics -
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1977
Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Bldg 1 - Arts & Humanities - Room 0455, Phone: (858) 822-4461
History and philosophy of the life sciences with a special emphasis on the strategies of mechanistic explanation employed and the invocation of active mechanisms to explain how biological systems maintain themselves far from equilibrium -
Professor Emerita
B.Phil. Oxford University, 1969
Interface between neuroscience and philosophy; explores the impact of neuroscientific developments on our understanding of consciousness, the self, free will, decision making, ethics, learning, and religion -
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1969
Philosophy of science (neurosciences, physics, astronomy); philosophy of mind (psychology); epistemology (cognitive science, artificial intelligence); philosophy of language; and the history of philosophy -
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1969
Philosophy of science and political philosophy including theory of justice, Rawls work, political liberalism, multiculturalism, the role of self-respect in political theory, communitarianism, and issues of gender and race -
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1995
Theoretical cognitive neuroscience and the metaphysics of mind and representation; interests in linguistics and early modern; emulation theory of representation, and spatial and temporal representation -
Edward Lee
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Princeton University -
Donald Rutherford
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1988
Early modern philosophy and the reception of ancient philosophy in the early modern period; Kant's critical philosophy and its development, and Nietzsche