Non-supervisory faculty

The following faculty members may be appointed to a thesis advisory committee


  • Philosophy of Mind (esp. the metaphysics of consciousness)
  • Metaphysics (esp. grounding and metaphysical explanation)

  • Philosophy of Language 
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Metaphysics 
  • Logic

  • Applied Ethics
  • Political Philosophy

  • Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
  • Philosophy of Mind and Agency (esp. 4E cognition)
  • Virtue Ethics

  • Applied Ethics (esp. AI, animal, and environmental ethics)
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Political Philosophy (esp. theories of justice)
  • Philosophy of Biology
  • Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

  • Philosophy of Mathematics (especially abstractionist programs)
  • Logic

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Epistemology

Dr. Julio Brotero De Rizzo

  • Metaphysics (esp. grounding, essence and explanation)
  • Philosophy of Logic (esp. modal logic)

  • Ethics (Meta, Business, Normative)
  • Social Ontology
  • Political Philosophy

  • Ethics (normative ethics, meta-ethics, and moral psychology)
  • History of Philosophy (esp. concerning truth, ethics, Bergson, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Ryle, Murdoch)
  • Philosophy of Mind and Action (esp. intentionality, intellectualism/anti-intellectualism)

  • Intercultural Philosophy
  • Chinese Philosophy

Mirko Engler

  • Logic
  • Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Philosophy of Language

  • Philosophy of Biology
  • General Philosophy of Science
  • Epistemology

  • Ethics (esp. 19th and 20th century)
  • Religion and Science
  • History of Philosophy (esp. Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Jonas)

  • Epistemology (esp. applied, social, and virtue epistemology)
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Metaphysics of cognition 

Dr. Paul*A Helfritzsch

  • Social Philosophy
  • Queer Theory
  • Gender Relations
  • Theory of Emotions
  • Phenomenology
  • Post-Structuralism
  • Thinking about Drag

  • Ancient philosophy (esp. Epicureanism)
  • Philosophical papyri
  • Textual criticism

  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Religion (esp. Theodicy)

  • Philosophy of Biology
  • Theories of Life
  • Evolutionary Systems Biology
  • Philosophy of AI

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Meta-ethics

  • Conceptual engineering
  • Ethics of attention
  • Social epistemology (esp. epistemic paternalism and autonomy)
  • Metametaphysics

Dr. Andreea-Maria Lemnaru Espuna

  • History of Philosophy (esp. Ancient Philosophy)
  • Philosophy of Religions
  • Philosophy of Nature
  • Comparative Philosophy

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Biology
  • Philosophy of Mind and Action

Dr. Lars Moen

  • Group Agency
  • Moral Status of Groups
  • Political Philosophy (esp. concepts of freedom)

  • Theories of Imagination
  • Rhetoric
  • Roman Philosophy (esp. Lucretius)
  • Descartes 

Dr. Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum

  • Philosophy of Logic and Language
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Perception
  • History of Philosophy (esp. 17th Century Empiricism)

  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Post-Kantian Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Language (esp. inferentialism and normativity of meaning)

Dr. Eugenia Stamboliev

  • Philosophy/Ethics of Emerging Technologies
  • AI and Democracy
  • AI and Trustworthiness/ Explainability
  • German Media Philosophy
  • Cultural Studies and Posthuman Ethics

  • Legal Philosophy
  • Political Philosophy

  • Phenomenology
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Aesthetics
  • Medical Humanities

  • Aesthetics
  • History of Philosophy (esp. Wittgenstein, Peirce)

  • Epistemology (Feminist, General, Relativism)
  • Philosophy of Science (General, Biology, Medicine)
  • Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
  • Social Studies of Science, Social Science Methods, Empirical Philosophy

  • History of Philosophy (esp. Wittgenstein)