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The Department of Philosophy at SMU is a research intensive department in the analytic tradition with particular strengths in Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science. Our faculty regularly publishes in leading philosophy journals, including Mind, Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Analysis, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. The department is also home to two philosophy blogs, Think Tonk and Brain Pains.

What's New

Welcome to our new faculty starting Fall 2008:

Justin Fisher, Ph.D. University of Arizona. Matthew Lockard, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles.

Congratulations to Robert Howell for his promotion to Associate Professor.

Congratulations to Justin Fisher for the selection of his paper, "Why Nothing Mental is Just in the Head", for inclusion in The Philosopher's Annual for 2007 (a collection of the ten best papers published in philosophy that year.

Jean Kazez's new book The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life (Blackwell, 2007) is now available.

Eric Barnes' new book The Paradox of Predictivism (Cambridge University Press) is now available.