Faculty and Staff - Department of Philosophy

TENURED & TENURE-TRACK

	ERIC BARNES Professor & Department Chair Ph.D. Indiana, 1990 Hyer Hall Rm 210B 214-768-2128 ebarnes@smu.edu
Research: Philosophy of Science, including the nature of scientific progress, scientific explanation, confirmation theory, and the realist-anti realist debate. My primary focus over the last several years has been on predictivism. My current interests are in ethics.

	PHILIPPE CHUARD Assistant Professor Ph.D. ANU, 2006 Hyer Hall Rm 210A 214-768-2705 pchuard@smu.edu
Research: Philosophy of Perception, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, including the nature of perceptual content and whether it is conceptual or non-conceptual. Recently, I have focused on the non-transitivity of looking the same as. Various other interests in epistemology.

	DOUGLAS E. EHRING William Edward Easterwood Professor of Philosophy Ph.D. Columbia, 1981 Hyer Hall Rm 211C 214-768-2137 dehring@smu.edu

	JUSTIN FISHER Assistant Professor Ph.D. Arizona, 2006 Hyer Hall Rm 210D fisher@smu.edu
Research: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science (especially Biology), Metaphysics, Epistemology and Decision Theory

	SORAYA GOLLOP Assistant Professor Ph.D. Michigan, 2007 Hyer Hall Rm 211B 214-768-2120 sgollop@smu.edu
Research: Moral Psychology, Ethics, and Rational Choice. I am primarily interested in desires: how they relate to our actions, deliberations and beliefs; and what these relations imply about the nature of our desires, actions, and ourselves.

	ROBERT HOWELL Associate Professor Ph.D. Brown, 2001 Hyer Hall Rm 211F 214-768-???? rhowell@smu.edu
Research: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, and Metaphysics. In general, my work concerns the nature of subjectivity, the self and the mind. Most recently, I have been developing a view called "Subjective Physicalism" which maintains that while everything is physical, some physical states cannot be fully grasped unless they are occupied.

	MATTHEW LOCKARD Assistant Professor Ph.D. UCLA, 2008 Hyer Hall Rm 209 214-768-4620 mlockard@smu.edu
Research: Epistemology

	LUKE ROBINSON Assistant Professor Ph.D. UCSD, 2005; J.D. Penn Law, 1996 Hyer Hall Rm 211A 214-768-4399 lrobinson@smu.edu
Research: Metaethics and Normative Ethics. My current research focuses on questions in moral metaphysics and moral epistemology that bear on the methodology of and substantive disputes within normative ethical theory.

	STEVE SVERDLIK Associate Professor Ph.D. Columbia, 1981 Hyer Hall Rm 211D 214-768-3364 sverdlik@smu.edu
Research: Ethics, Action Theory, and Moral Psychology. I have been working lately on the deontic significance of motives and have done some studies of the significance of motives in various moral theories. I am currently completing a book-length manuscript, Motive and Rightness.

	BRAD THOMPSON Associate Professor Ph.D. Arizona, 2003 Hyer Hall Rm 210C 214-768-2119 bthompso@smu.edu
Research: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Cognitive Science. I'm especially interested in consciousness, and in particular the relationship between the phenomenal character and intentionality of perceptual experiences. In recent work I have developed a Fregean version of representationalism for visual experiences of color and space.
LECTURERS

	KENNETH DALEY Visiting Lecturer Ph.D. Colorado, 2007 Hyer Hall Rm 211E 214-768-2160 kdaley@smu.edu
Research: Philosophy of Mind, including the nature of concepts, their content and structure, in addition to constraints on an adequate theory of concepts. More generally, issues surrounding mental representation and propositional attitudes.

	CLAYTON LITTLEJOHN Visiting Lecturer Ph.D. Nebraska, 2005 Hyer Hall Rm 210D 214-768-1754 cmlittlejohn@yahoo.com
Research: Epistemology and Ethics, including externalist justification, Moore's paradox and the lottery paradox, the nature of evidence, and epistemic norms governing action, assertion, and belief. I am also developing an account of the moral significance of intentions and motives. And in the philosophy of mind, I work on issues concerning intentional action, content, and qualia.

	GIOVANNI MION Visiting Lecturer Ph.D. University of Cincinnati, 2008 Hyer Hall Rm 210E gmion@smu.edu
Research: Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Formal Epistemology, Wittgenstein. I am developing an account of knowledge attributions on the basis of the assumptions that contexts are objective entities. In formal epistemology, I work on the the Knowledge Paradox.

	NENAD POPOVIC Visiting Lecturer Ph.D. Miami, 2007 Hyer Hall Rm 209 214-768-4867 npopovic@smu.edu
Research: Epistemology, Logic, and Philosophy of Education, including contextualist and subject-sensitive invariantist solutions to skeptical puzzles. In logic, I work on the Liar paradox.
ADJUNCTS

	STEVE ANDERSON Adjunct Assistant Professor J.D. SMU steve.anderson@airmail.net philosophy of law webpage
Research: Philosophy of Law.

	SCOTT BARTLETT Adjunct Assistant Professor Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1999 sbartlett@smu.edu
Research: Classical American Philosophy and Critical Social Theory.

	STEVE HILTZ Adjunct Assistant Professor Ph.D. Texas Hyer Hall Rm 210E 214-768-4027 shiltz@smu.edu
Research: Metaphysics, Wittgenstein, and Philosophy of Language & Mind.

	JEAN KAZEZ Adjunct Assistant Professor Ph.D. Arizona, 1990 jkazez@smu.edu
Research: Ethics, Animal Rights, and Philosophy of Mind & Language.

	JAMES W. LAMB Adjunct Assistant Professor Ph.D. Brown, 1972 jimlamb@ebby.com
Research: Tools and techniques of applied logic and practical epistemology; free will and determinism.
ADMINISTRATION

	RYAN HAWKINS Administrative Assistant Hyer Hall Rm 207 214-768-2118 ryhawkins@smu.edu

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