People
Faculty
Zvi Biener
Associate Professor, Philosophy
5253 CLIFTCT
He is Editor-in-Chief of the PhilSci-Archive and the Vice-President and President-Elect of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS).
Dr. Biener's work is in historical philosophy of science. Other work includes philosophy of data, AI, and empirical research into loneliness.
See personal website here.
Vanessa Carbonell
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics, Philosophy
5213 CLIFTCT
Tony P Chemero
University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology , Philosophy
5255 CLIFTCT
Currently, Tony is University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati (UC), and a primary member of both the Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception and the Strange Tools Research Lab. His research is both philosophical and empirical; typically, it tries to be both at the same time. He focuses on questions related to nonlinear dynamical modeling, ecological psychology, complex systems, phenomenology, and social cognition. He is the author of more than 100 articles and the books Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (2009, MIT Press) and, with Stephan Käufer, Phenomenology (2015, Polity Press; second edition, 2021). He is currently writing a book tentatively titled Intertwinings: The embodied cognitive science of self and other (Columbia University Press). His first book was a finalist for the Lakatos Prize for Philosophy of Science. He has recently received the University Distinguished Research Award, the Latino Faculty Association Excellence in Research Award , and the Rieveschl Award for Scholarly Achievement at UC.
For more information, see Tony's pages at academia.edu or google scholar
Lucas D. Dunlap
Asst Professor - Educator, Philosophy
5251 CLIFTCT
Melissa Jacquart
Asst Professor, Philosophy
CLIFTCT
Please visit my website for more information on my research and teaching: melissajacquart.com
Lawrence J Jost
Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Marx, Philosophy
259A ARTSCI
Peter M Langland Hassan
Director of Graduate Studies | Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy
5256 CLIFTCT
Langland-Hassan arrived at UC in 2011 after spending two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 2009 from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and his B.A. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1997.
More information is available on his personal website: http://langland-hassan.com
Heidi Lene Maibom
Professor, Philosophy
ARTSCI
Eduardo Joseph Martinez
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
5254 CLIFTCT
My research is in democratic theory and focuses on standards for evaluating institutions and practices within democracies, such as administrative agencies, civic education, representation, and political partisanship. For more on my research, please see my website: eduardojmartinez.com
Thomas W. Polger
Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Philosophy
5252 CLIFTCT
As I see it, the questions that arise around the cognitive and brain sciences amount to a special case of the general puzzle of why we have various sciences rather than just one. Why is there anything but physics?
In the process of investigating questions about minds, brains, and sciences we may come to wonder about the kinds of theorizing that we do, and about the evidence and arguments that we employ. How do the methods of philosophy fit with other forms of inquiry. And how is philosophical knowledge possible?
Angela Potochnik
Department Head; Professor; Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science, Philosophy
5215 CLIFTCT
Visit Potochnik's website.
Robert A Skipper
History and Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
261C ARTSCI
Skipper's main research focuses on the origins and development of evolutionary genetics. In particular, he works on problems about the structure of biological controversies, theory change, theory/model assessment, theory/model structure/interpretation, evolutionary dynamics, biological explanation, and epistemology of biological experiments.
In addition, Skipper has interests in environmental philosophy, philosophy of food, and obesity science.
Visiting Faculty
Erica Nichols
Asst Professor - Visiting, Philosophy
ARTSCI
Erica Nichols is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati and Faculty Affiliate in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. Her research focuses on the intersection of metaphysics and ethics, most notably in questions of Personal Identity, with a recent focus on issues in Dissociative Identity Disorder, answering questions on whether an alternate personality counts as a separate moral person with their own sets of rights and what rights those personalities would have, if so. She also has research interests in general philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and applied ethics. Prior to joining UC, Erica was a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University.
EDUCATION:
B.A. Purdue University Northwest. Hammond, Indiana. 2015 (Philosophy)
M.A. Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio. 2020 (Applied Philosophy)
Ph.D. Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio. 2022 (Applied Philosophy)
PUBLICATIONS:
(Dissertation) Multiple Personhood in Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Lives and Deaths of Invisible People.
COURSES TAUGHT:
(UC) PHIL 1089: Sex and Death
(UC) PHIL 1003: Introduction to Ethics
(BGSU) Philosophy of Death and Dying
(BGSU) Introduction to Logic
(BGSU) Introduction to Philosophy
(BGSU) Introduction to Ethics
(BGSU) Contemporary Moral Issues
Affiliate Faculty
Steven Joel Cahn
Professor of Music Theory, CCM Music Theory
4225G Emery Hall
- Schoenberg Studies/Twentieth-Century Music Theory
- Neuroscience/Psychology of Music
- Aesthetics, Hermeneutics & Theories of History
- History of Music Theory
- Musical Form in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- Cultural Studies & Jewish Music Studies
His work appears in collections—Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, Schoenberg and Words, Schoenberg: Interpretationen seiner Werke—and journals—Musical Quarterly, Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Center, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Opera Quarterly, Ostinato rigore. His collaborative research has been published in Cognitive Neuropsychology (DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2011.646972) and the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology (DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.24.1.6).
Cahn has received support from the Avenir Foundation, the Tangeman Sacred Music Center, the Dean’s Travel Fund, the National Institutes of Health — Lab for Integrative and Medical Biophysics, the National Endowment for the Humanities (Summer Stipend) and the University Research Council, Faculty Research Support Grant. He has presented papers at international conferences including Jewishness and the Arts (Rome, 2015), Schoenberg at 140 (Canterbury, UK, 2014), Hebrew University 2013, Symposia of the Arnold Schoenberg Center (Vienna, 2001, 2002) and the Third International Conference on Jewish Music (SOAS, London 2000). In the U.S., he has presented papers at the Getty Center, the Library of Congress and the National Institutes of Health. He has also presented research at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Midwest and International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC8).
Andrew Morgan Cullison
Exec Dir Ethics Center, EI Ethics Center
DIGITFUT
Muhammad U. Faruque
Inayat & Ishrat Malik Assistant Professor and Taft Center Fellow (AY 23-24), A&S Romance & Arabic Languages & Literat
728C Old Chemistry Building
His book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) won the prestigious Iran's 31st World Book Award. The book addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of selfhood and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical literatures, including modern philosophy and neuroscience. He is the author of three books and over fifty academic articles, which have appeared (or are forthcoming) in numerous prestigious, peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes such as Philosophy East and West, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (Cambridge), Sophia, Journal of Sufi Studies (Brill), Religious Studies (Cambridge), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics, and Ancient Philosophy. He has delivered lectures in many North American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern universities. He gives public lectures on a wide range of topics such as climate change, spirituality, meditation, AI, Islamic psychology, and Islam and the West. He is also a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious Templeton Foundation Global Philosophy of Religion grant and the Title IV Grant, U.S. Dept. of Education.
While his past research has explored modern and premodern conceptions of selfhood and identity and their bearing on ethics, religion, and culture, his current project investigates whether or not Sufi philosophy and practice—as articulated in the School of Ibn ʿArabī—support and foster an active engagement toward the planet's well-being and an ecologically viable way of life and vision. He is also at work on a book on AI and the ethical challenges of information technology. His edited volumes include From the Divine to the Human: Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic (Routledge, 2023) and A Cultural History of South Asian Literature, Volume 3: The Early Modern Age (1400-1700) (co-edited with S. Nair).
His interests and expertise encompass self and subjectivity, environmental humanities, religion and climate change, cross-cultural philosophy, Sufism, Perso-Arabic mystical literature, Islamic philosophy and ethics, history and philosophy of science, Islamic Psychology, and Graeco-Arabica. He teaches courses on climate change, environmental humanities, religion and mysticism, philosophy, as well as on selfhood and identity.
In his personal life, he loves gardening (plant life fascinates him), spending time in nature, traveling, cooking, photography, and watching movies. He also has a passion for classical Indian (raag) and Persian music, and for art, music, and poetry in general.
He is affiliated with the departments of Philosophy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Studies, and the Religious Studies Certificate program.
CV: https://muhammadfaruque.com/curriculum-vitae/
Website: https://muhammadfaruque.com/
Kristopher J Holland
Associate Professor, DAAP School of Art
4280C Aronoff Center
He is the Co-Director of the Strange Tools Research Lab at the Digital Futures research collaborative located in the University of Cincinnati. This research lab combines artistic and philosophical inquiry to create new tools to engage with multi-disciplinary problems. He is also the Director of the Graduate program in Art & Design Education and the Director of the Visual Arts & Design Education State Licensure for the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. He Previously was the director of Art and Publications for the Žižekian Institute for Research, Inquiry, and Pedagogy. He also is involved with the biannual (pre-covid) Berlin Summer Studio Arts Inquiry program in collaboration with the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
As a visiting professor at the Karl Franzens University’s Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Graz Austria he has taught courses on a range of subjects including: Joseph Beuys, The Vienna Secession, Baroque Art and Knowledge, Artful Science, Philosophy of Technology, The Black Radical Tradition, Photography and Video Art, Object Orientated Ontology, and Political Theory as Art Production.
Dr. Holland is a practicing artist and philosopher whose current research interests are: strange tools, philosophical inquiry methodologies, arts-based research, art & design teacher education, deconstruction, contemporary art, and critical theory. His conceptual art work The Habermas Machine was cited in James Rolling Jr.’s Arts-Based Research: A Primer, published in 2013 and was exhibited in 2015. He has recently given guest lectures at the School of Visual Arts in New York on strange tools and philosophy without text, and New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development on the topic of Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education which corresponds with his recently published co-authored book: Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory: Turning Right to Go Left.
His peer-reviewed publications can be found in: The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy [Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française], Adaptive Behavior, Visual Arts Research Journal, The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Studies in Art Education, and the International Journal of Žižek Studies. By combining the fields of philosophy, art, and education, his work seeks to spark agency for students in the creative fields for social change and educative innovation.
Elizabeth Lanphier
Assistant Professor of Clinical-Affiliate, COM Pediatrics General Pediatrics
Childrens Hospital Bldg R
In addition to her published scholarship in peer reviewed journals and book volumes, Elizabeth has written for a variety of outlets including the Hastings Bioethics Forum and Ms. Magazine. Her research has also been featured in "The ethical questions raised by COVID-19 vaccines: 5 essential reads" and "50 years after Roe, many ethics questions shape the abortion debate" in The Conversation as well as "What is Trauma Informed Care?" in Health, and "We're All Second Guessing Ourselves" in The Atlantic. She was quoted in TIME Magazine for the article "How Do You Even Calculate Covid-19 Risk Anymore?" and was an expert cited in "Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster's COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education" in Protean Magazine.
Elizabeth currently chairs the Committee on Accessibility and Inclusion for the North American Society for Social Philosophy, and is an elected Board Member of the Bioethics Network of Ohio. From 2021-2024 she was a co-chair of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Affinity Group for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.
Kenneth Petren
Professor, A&S Biological Sciences
800C Rieveschl Hall
Michael A. Riley
CAHS Rehab, Exercise & Nutrition Science
292B HSB
Sarah M Stitzlein
Professor, CECH Curriculum & Instruction
610F Teachers College
I am a Professor of Education and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. As a philosopher of education, I use political philosophy to uncover problems in education, analyze educational policy, and envision better alternatives. I am especially interested in issues of political agency, educating for democracy, and equity in schools. I consider how to best educate citizens, with special attention to addressing current struggles in democracy related to matters of truth, political dissent, polarization, populism, and political hope.
I am Co-Editor of the journal, Democracy & Education and President of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society. I am a scholar of American Pragmatism and previously served as President of the John Dewey Society.
I have received the the University of Cincinnati Jack Twyman Award for Service Learning, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and Golden Apple awards. At my previous university, I earned the University of New Hampshire Outstanding Professor award. I am also the recipient of the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Development Fellowship.
Emeriti Faculty
Timothy W. Allen
Social and Political Philosophy, Democratic Theory, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Critical Thinking, Existentialism, Business Ethics, Philosophy
John Martin
McMicken Professor Emeritus. Areas of Specialty: Formal Semantics, History of Logic, Environmental Ethics., Philosophy
Formal Semantics, History of Logic, Environmental Ethics
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John McEvoy
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Technology, Marx, Foucault, Althusser, Philosophy
John McEvoy works in science studies and political philosophy. He has published extensively on the history and philosophy of science, focusing mainly on the Chemical Revolution, which occurred in the eighteenth century and is generally regarded as the origins of modern chemistry, and twentieth-century interpretations of this important event. He is currently working on more general issues pertaining to the historiography of science and is keen to show how the discipline of the history of science is shaped by wider philosophical and cultural influences. McEvoy also teaches political philosophy, focusing on the classical texts of Marx and Engels and the twentieth-century writings of the Frankfurt School, Foucault, and Althusser. He also teaches courses on the philosophy of technology and the historical and philosophical relations between magic, science, and the occult. His analysis of the 'history of the history of science' since World War Two is available in The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010).
Robert C. Richardson
Charles Phelps Taft Professor | Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science, Philosophy
Jenefer Mary Robinson
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychology (emotion theory), Philosophy
For more information, please see her personal website
Leo Simons
Philosophy
William L Todd
Philosophy
Staff
Kristin Nicole Rice
Financial Administrator 1, Philosophy
360C ARTSCI
Graduate Students/Assistants
Ramy Amin
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Mel Andrews
Philosophy
Fotini Charalabidou
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Clif John-Diego Clemotte
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Vincent James del Prado
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Jacob Bauman Ebbs
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
In phil. mind I focus on questions regarding cognition, action, and embodiment.
I have ancillary interests in the philosophy/psychology of education and of humor.
Elmo Feiten
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Kyle Keenan Furlane
Philosophy
I also teach pre-college philosophy (or "philosophy for children") around Cincinnati in elementary schools and high schools.
Bradley Aaron Griggs
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Ilir Isufi
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Jonathan Christopher Kanzelmeyer
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Brianna Larson
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Historically, my work has focused on topics in consciousness, the philosophy of mind, social philosophy, affective introspection, and the philosophy of emotion. Lately, I’ve been interested in questions related to well-being, personal identity and narrative, feminist social epistemology, and social power.
Vanessa Taylor Petersen Lovato
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Collin Ford Lucken
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Daniel Elgin Mattox
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
I am happy to answer questions from prospective students about the philosophy department! Please feel free to email me.
My primary research interests are at the intersection of life, mind, and value; I am especially interested in exploring how the life/mind continuity of enactivism can be extended to account for value theory and serve as the groundwork for a new kind of virtue ethics and moral psychology. Beyond my main research areas, I have interests in political philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, critical theory in the humanities and social sciences, and public humanities. My research also draws on global literatures across disciplines and is empirically informed.
I have worked for 4 years at the University of Cincinnati Press. I started in my first year as a Graduate Assistant working in acquisitions and have since been working as an Assistant Editor working on special projects for the press. I have managed the peer review process for several manuscripts, reviewed manuscript proposals, worked as a developmental editor, and done almost every part of the acquisitions process.
I regularly participate in the Research and Discussion Group for the Center for Public Engagement with Science, the Ethics Journal Club, and the annual European Studies Workshop. I was previously the facilitator for the Undergraduate Philosophy Club, I am currently the coach of the first University of Cincinnati Ethics Bowl Team, and sometimes a participant in the Graduate-Undergraduate Research Mentorship program.
In my spare time I like to bake and cook, feed random street cats, and volunteer with local nonprofits and political campaigns. I’m also an AmeriCorps alumnus and an Honorary Kentucky Colonel.
Carlos Andres Munoz-Serna
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Damilola Victoria Oduola
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
My research interests lie in the fields of bioethics, migration ethics and development studies. My research focuses on the effects of health workers’ migration on health systems in Africa, the position of health systems, health administration and health workers in the narrative of pandemic planning, the effects and conditions for voluntary and mandatory vaccination and ethical issues in health administration.
Mark Lawrence Ornelas
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
My other research is interested in moral psychology, political psychology and philosphy, and transcendental phenomenology.
Zachary Daniel Peck
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
I-Jan Wang
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Matthew A Willis
Asst Professor - Adj, Philosophy
ARTSCI
I am also interested in the work of WVO Quine and the history of early analytic philosophy (especially where Frege, Russell, and Carnap are concerned).
David Wong
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Kyle Joseph Yrigoyen
Philosophy