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Faculty of the URI Philosophy Department

Office Hours: Spring 2012

 

Full Time Faculty

William Bartels, lecturer, PhD. Rice.  Specialties: Philosophy of Religion. (401) 874-4493

Cheryl Foster, prof. chair, PhD. Edinburgh. Specialties: Aesthetics,Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, 19th Century Philosophy. (401) 874-4022.

Galen Johnson, prof., PhD. Boston University. Specialties: Phenomenology, Recent French Philosophy (especially Merleau-Ponty), Aesthetics, American Philosophy.
(401) 874-4790.

William H. Krieger, assistant prof., PhD. Claremont Graduate Univ. Specialties: History & Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Archaeology, Archaeological Theory. (401) 874-2812.

Zahra Meghani, associate prof., PhD. Michigan State. Specialties: Ethics, Bioethics, Feminist Theory. (401) 874-2208.

Eske Møllgaard, associate prof., PhD. Harvard. Specialties: Eastern Philosophies, Comparative Philosophy, Continental Philosophy.
(401) 874-4441.

Craig Nichols lecturer, PhD. Boston University. Specialties: Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Interpretation. (401) 874 2418

John Peterson, prof., PhD. Indiana. Specialties: Epistemology, Logic. (401) 874-2224

David Prentiss, lecturer, PhD. Brown.  Specialties: Ethics, Professional Ethics.
(401) 874-2422

Fritz Wenisch, prof., PhD. Salzburg. Specialties: Value Theory, Ethics, Phenomenology.
(401) 874-2226.

Emeriti Faculty

Yong Choon Kim, prof. emeritus of religion, PhD. Temple University.

Stephen D. Schwarz, prof. emeritus of philosophy, PhD. Harvard. Specialties: Existentialism, Ethics, Metaphysics.

William Young, prof. emeritus of philosophy, ThD. Union Theological Seminary.

Donald J. Zeyl, prof. emeritus of philosophy, PhD. Harvard. Specialties: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion.

Instructors

David Beglin instructor,

Charles Chaves instructor, PhD. Salve Regina University

Alexander DiPippo instructor, PhD.candidtate, Boston University

Michael Hartley,instructor.

Daehler Hayes, instructor, MDiv. Harvard Divinity School.

Lyle Mook, instructor, MDiv. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

David Shikiar instructor, PhD. Boston University

Alessandro Tomasi, instructor, PhD. City University of New York.

Bethany Vaccaro, instructor

Meredith Verrochi, instructor, PhD. Candidate, Michigan State University

Slobodan (Bob) Zunjic, adjunct professor, PhD. Belgrade University. Specialties: History of Philosophy, Byzantine Philosophy, Hermeneutics. (401) 874-5499