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Berit Brogaard

Professor
Cooper Fellow
Director of the Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research

bxb177@miami.edu

(305) 877-7353
Berit “Brit” Brogaard is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Brogaard Lab. Her areas of research include philosophy of perception, philosophy of emotions, and philosophy of language. She is the author of Transient Truths (Oxford University Press, 2012), On Romantic Love (Oxford University Press, 2015), The Superhuman...

Otavio A Bueno

Professor
Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences

obueno@miami.edu

(305) 284-9218
Otávio Bueno (Ph.D., University of Leeds), Professor and Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences. He has held visiting professorships or fellowships at Princeton University, University of York (UK), University of Leeds, and the University of São Paulo. His research is in philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics,...

Anjan Chakravartty

Professor
Appignani Foundation Professor

chakravartty@miami.edu

(305) 284-4757
Anjan Chakravartty (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is the Appignani Foundation Professor at the University of Miami. His research focuses on central issues in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. These include debates about scientific realism (e.g., versions of entity and structural realism) and antirealism (e.g., versions...

Richard Chappell

Associate Professor

rxc1001@miami.edu

Richard Yetter Chappell (Ph.D. Princeton), Assistant Professor. His primary research interests are in Consequentialism and non-naturalist normative realism. His secondary interests span from applied ethics (e.g. the harm of death, duties of beneficence, and resource allocation) to epistemology (e.g. peer disagreement, higher-order evidence, and...

Elijah L Chudnoff

Professor

e.chudnoff@miami.edu

(305) 284-4757
Elijah Chudnoff (Ph.D., Harvard University), Professor. He works primarily on topics at the intersection of theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind. He has published papers on intuition, perception, rationality, consciousness, expertise, knowledge, and thinking. His books include Intuition (Oxford University Press, 2013), Cognitive...

Simon J Evnine

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

sevnine@miami.edu

(305) 284-4757
My most recent book is Making Objects and Events: A Hylomorphic Theory of Artifacts, Actions, and Organisms (OUP) and I continue to be interested in metaphysics, artifacts, and social ontology. I am currently working on a cross-genre book to be called A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga!. The work will have...

Susan Haack

Professor

s.haack@miami.edu

(305) 284-3541
Susan Haack was educated at Oxford and Cambridge. Formerly a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, and later Professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, she is presently Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law at the University of Miami, where she...

Aleksandra Hernandez

Asst. Professor

mah415@miami.edu

(305) 922-8408
Aleksandra Hernandez (Ph.D., Notre Dame) is an Assistant Professor whose work lies at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Her research engages questions in the areas of animal ethics, moral psychology, American pragmatism, and feminist philosophy. 

Risto Hilpinen

Professor

hilpinen@miami.edu

(305) 284-5305
Risto Hilpinen (Ph.D., University of Helsinki), Professor and former Cooper Fellow; until 1999 Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Turku, Finland. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Rochester, Stanford University, Florida State University, and the University of Graz, and research fellowships at Stanford...

Arturo Leyva Pizano

Lecturer

a.leyva1@umiami.edu

(305) 284-3105
Arturo Leyva Pizano obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Miami. His areas of philosophical interest are the overlap between neuroscience and philosophy, philosophy and its connections to the behavioral sciences, philosophy and the health sciences, philosophy of mind/4E cognition, phenomenology, non-human animal studies, philosophy of...

Mark J Rowlands

Professor
Chair of Philosophy Department
Cooper Senior Scholar in the Arts and Sciences

mrowlands@miami.edu

(305) 284-4757
Mark Rowlands (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami. He is the author of twenty-one books, translated into roughly the same number of languages, and over a hundred journal articles, book chapters and reviews. His work in the philosophy of mind comprises several...

Michael Slote

Professor

mslote@miami.edu

(305) 284-4757
Michael Slote (Ph.D., Harvard University), UST Professor of Ethics in the University of Miami's Philosophy Department. He has taught at Columbia University, Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Maryland, where he was department chair for many years. He has written many articles in philosophy of mind, ethics, and...

Alison Ann Springle

Asst. Professor

aas524@miami.edu

Alison works on topics in and at the intersections between philosophy of mind, perception, action, science, epistemology and the ethics of knowing.  She's especially interested in the nature of representations, from the most basic kinds of mental representations to scientific representations and art works, and...

Helen Yetter-Chappell

Asst. Professor

hxc655@miami.edu

Helen works on topics at the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. She is currently developing a novel quasi-Berkeleyan idealism. She aims to secure commonsense verdicts about objectivity and persistence in a world where objects are fundamentally phenomenal, without relying on the controversial resources of theism. She is...