People
Tenure-Track Faculty
Zvi Biener
Associate Professor, Philosophy
261B ARTSCI
He is Editor-in-Chief of the PhilSci-Archive and the Vice-President and President-Elect of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS).
Dr. Biener's work is in historical philosophy of science. Other work includes philosophy of data, AI, and empirical research into loneliness.
See personal website here.
Vanessa Carbonell
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics, Philosophy
206D ARTSCI
Tony P Chemero
University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology , Philosophy
ARTSCI
Currently, Tony is University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati (UC), and a primary member of both the Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception and the Strange Tools Research Lab. His research is both philosophical and empirical; typically, it tries to be both at the same time. He focuses on questions related to nonlinear dynamical modeling, ecological psychology, complex systems, phenomenology, and social cognition. He is the author of more than 100 articles and the books Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (2009, MIT Press) and, with Stephan Käufer, Phenomenology (2015, Polity Press; second edition, 2021). He is currently writing a book tentatively titled Intertwinings: The embodied cognitive science of self and other (Columbia University Press). His first book was a finalist for the Lakatos Prize for Philosophy of Science. He has recently received the University Distinguished Research Award, the Latino Faculty Association Excellence in Research Award , and the Rieveschl Award for Scholarly Achievement at UC.
For more information, see Tony's pages at academia.edu or google scholar
Melissa Jacquart
Asst Professor, Philosophy
ARTSCI
Please visit my website for more information on my research and teaching: melissajacquart.com
Lawrence J Jost
Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Marx, Philosophy
259A ARTSCI
Peter M Langland-Hassan
Director of Graduate Studies | Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy
206A ARTSCI
Langland-Hassan arrived at UC in 2011 after spending two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 2009 from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and his B.A. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1997.
More information is available on his personal website: http://langland-hassan.com
Heidi Lene Maibom
Professor, Philosophy
Eduardo Joseph Martinez
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
206C ARTSCI
My research is in democratic theory and focuses on standards for evaluating institutions and practices within democracies, such as administrative agencies, civic education, representation, and political partisanship. For more on my research, please see my website: eduardojmartinez.com
Thomas W. Polger
Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Philosophy
206B ARTSCI
As I see it, the questions that arise around the cognitive and brain sciences amount to a special case of the general puzzle of why we have various sciences rather than just one. Why is there anything but physics?
In the process of investigating questions about minds, brains, and sciences we may come to wonder about the kinds of theorizing that we do, and about the evidence and arguments that we employ. How do the methods of philosophy fit with other forms of inquiry. And how is philosophical knowledge possible?
Angela Potochnik
Professor; Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science, Philosophy
206C ARTSCI
Visit Potochnik's website.
Robert C. Richardson
Charles Phelps Taft Professor | Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science, Philosophy
Robert A Skipper
History and Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
261C ARTSCI
Skipper's main research focuses on the origins and development of evolutionary genetics. In particular, he works on problems about the structure of biological controversies, theory change, theory/model assessment, theory/model structure/interpretation, evolutionary dynamics, biological explanation, and epistemology of biological experiments.
In addition, Skipper has interests in environmental philosophy, philosophy of food, and obesity science.
Educator Faculty
Lucas D. Dunlap
Asst Professor - Educator, Philosophy
261B ARTSCI
Visiting Faculty
Erica Nichols
Asst Professor - Visiting, Philosophy
ARTSCI
Erica Nichols is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati and Faculty Affiliate in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. Her research focuses on the intersection of metaphysics and ethics, most notably in questions of Personal Identity, with a recent focus on issues in Dissociative Identity Disorder, answering questions on whether an alternate personality counts as a separate moral person with their own sets of rights and what rights those personalities would have, if so. She also has research interests in general philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and applied ethics. Prior to joining UC, Erica was a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University.
EDUCATION:
B.A. Purdue University Northwest. Hammond, Indiana. 2015 (Philosophy)
M.A. Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio. 2020 (Applied Philosophy)
Ph.D. Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio. 2022 (Applied Philosophy)
PUBLICATIONS:
(Dissertation) Multiple Personhood in Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Lives and Deaths of Invisible People.
COURSES TAUGHT:
(UC) PHIL 1089: Sex and Death
(UC) PHIL 1003: Introduction to Ethics
(BGSU) Philosophy of Death and Dying
(BGSU) Introduction to Logic
(BGSU) Introduction to Philosophy
(BGSU) Introduction to Ethics
(BGSU) Contemporary Moral Issues
Affiliate Faculty
Steven Joel Cahn
Professor of Music Theory, Philosophy
4225G Emery Hall
- Schoenberg Studies/Twentieth-Century Music Theory
- Neuroscience/Psychology of Music
- Aesthetics, Hermeneutics & Theories of History
- History of Music Theory
- Musical Form in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- Cultural Studies & Jewish Music Studies
His work appears in collections—Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, Schoenberg and Words, Schoenberg: Interpretationen seiner Werke—and journals—Musical Quarterly, Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Center, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Opera Quarterly, Ostinato rigore. His collaborative research has been published in Cognitive Neuropsychology (DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2011.646972) and the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology (DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.24.1.6).
Cahn has received support from the Avenir Foundation, the Tangeman Sacred Music Center, the Dean’s Travel Fund, the National Institutes of Health — Lab for Integrative and Medical Biophysics, the National Endowment for the Humanities (Summer Stipend) and the University Research Council, Faculty Research Support Grant. He has presented papers at international conferences including Jewishness and the Arts (Rome, 2015), Schoenberg at 140 (Canterbury, UK, 2014), Hebrew University 2013, Symposia of the Arnold Schoenberg Center (Vienna, 2001, 2002) and the Third International Conference on Jewish Music (SOAS, London 2000). In the U.S., he has presented papers at the Getty Center, the Library of Congress and the National Institutes of Health. He has also presented research at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Midwest and International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC8).
Andrew Morgan Cullison
Exec Dir Ethics Center, Philosophy
DIGITFUT
Muhammad U. Faruque
Inayat & Ishrat Malik Assistant Professor and Taft Center Fellow (AY 23-24), Philosophy
728C Old Chemistry Building
While his past research has explored modern and premodern conceptions of selfhood and identity and their bearing on ethics, religion, and culture, his current project investigates whether or not Sufi philosophy and practice—as articulated in the School of Ibn ʿArabī—support and foster an active engagement toward the planet's well-being and an ecologically viable way of life and vision. He is also at work on a book on A.I. and the ethical challenges of information technology. He also has two forthcoming edited volumes entitled From the Divine to the Human: New Perspectives on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic (co-edited with M. Rustom) and A Cultural History of South Asian Literature, Volume 3: The Early Modern Age (1400-1700) (co-edited with S. Nair) respectively.
His interests and expertise encompass history and theory of subjectivity, environmental humanities, religion and climate change, cross-cultural philosophy, gender hermeneutics, Sufism, Perso-Arabic mystical literature, Islamic philosophy and ethics, history and philosophy of science, Islamic Psychology, and Graeco-Arabica. He teaches courses on Islam and social justice issues, climate change, mysticism, philosophy, as well as on selfhood and identity.
In his personal life, he loves gardening (plant life fascinates him), spending time in nature, travelling, cooking, photography, and watching movies. He also has a passion for classical Indian (raag) and Persian music, and for art, music, and poetry in general.
He is also affiliated with the departments of Philosophy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Studies, and the program in Religious Certificate.
Kristopher J Holland
Associate Professor, Philosophy
4280B Aronoff Center
He is the Co-Director of the Strange Tools Research Lab at the Digital Futures research collaborative located in the University of Cincinnati. This research lab combines artistic and philosophical inquiry to create new tools to engage with multi-disciplinary problems. He is also the Director of the Graduate program in Art & Design Education and the Director of the Visual Arts & Design Education State Licensure for the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. He Previously was the director of Art and Publications for the Žižekian Institute for Research, Inquiry, and Pedagogy. He also is involved with the biannual (pre-covid) Berlin Summer Studio Arts Inquiry program in collaboration with the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
As a visiting professor at the Karl Franzens University’s Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Graz Austria he has taught courses on a range of subjects including: Joseph Beuys, The Vienna Secession, Baroque Art and Knowledge, Artful Science, Philosophy of Technology, The Black Radical Tradition, Photography and Video Art, Object Orientated Ontology, and Political Theory as Art Production.
Dr. Holland is a practicing artist and philosopher whose current research interests are: strange tools, philosophical inquiry methodologies, arts-based research, art & design teacher education, deconstruction, contemporary art, and critical theory. His conceptual art work The Habermas Machine was cited in James Rolling Jr.’s Arts-Based Research: A Primer, published in 2013 and was exhibited in 2015. He has recently given guest lectures at the School of Visual Arts in New York on strange tools and philosophy without text, and New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development on the topic of Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education which corresponds with his recently published co-authored book: Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory: Turning Right to Go Left.
His peer-reviewed publications can be found in: The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy [Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française], Adaptive Behavior, Visual Arts Research Journal, The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Studies in Art Education, and the International Journal of Žižek Studies. By combining the fields of philosophy, art, and education, his work seeks to spark agency for students in the creative fields for social change and educative innovation.
Elizabeth Lanphier
Assistant Professor of Clinical-Affiliate, Philosophy
Childrens Hospital Bldg R
In addition to her published scholarship in peer reviewed journals and book volumes, Elizabeth has written for a variety of outlets including the Hastings Bioethics Forum and Ms. Magazine. Her research has also been featured in "The ethical questions raised by COVID-19 vaccines: 5 essential reads" in The Conversation, "What is Trauma Informed Care?" in Health, and "We're All Second Guessing Ourselves" in The Atlantic and she was quoted in TIME Magazine for the article "How Do You Even Calculate Covid-19 Risk Anymore?"
Elizabeth currently co-chairs the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Affinity Group, is a member of the Committee on Inclusion and Accessibility for the North American Society for Social Philosophy, and is an elected Board Member of the Bioethics Network of Ohio for 2021-2024.
Arnold I Miller
Professor Emeritus of Geology, Philosophy
An evolutionary paleobiologist and paleoecologist, with research and teaching interests in biodiversity throughout geological time and in the present day. Current projects include the investigation of geographic and environmental selectivity during global mass extinctions and major diversification events; assessment of anthropogenic impacts on shallow-water molluscan communities as recorded in skeletal accumulations; numerical modeling of time-averaged fossil assemblages; and assessments of the distributions of animals and plants along present and past environmental gradients.
Kenneth Petren
Professor, Philosophy
800C Rieveschl Hall
Michael A. Riley
Philosophy
292B HSB
Sarah M Stitzlein
Professor, Philosophy
610F Teachers College
I am a Professor of Education and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. I am also President of the John Dewey Society, Co-Editor of the journal, Democracy & Education, and Co-Director of the Center for Hope & Justice Education. As a philosopher of education, I use political philosophy to uncover problems in education, analyze educational policy, and envision better alternatives. I am especially interested in issues of political agency, educating for democracy, and equity in schools.
My previous book, American Public Education and the Responsibility of Its Citizens: Supporting Democracy in an Age of Accountability (Oxford University Press, 2017), responds to the increasing hostile climate toward public education, especially in the era of school choice and lingering neoliberalism. It argues that citizens should support public schools as a central institution of democracy. My 2014 book,Teaching Dissent: Citizenship Education and Political Activism, investigates the role of political dissent in citizenship education. My 2008 book, Breaking Bad Habits: Transforming Race and Gender in Schools, draws upon American pragmatism and feminist poststructuralism to offer teachers pathways out of persistent hierarchies of race and gender in schools.
My most recent writing projects, describes the state of civic reasoning and discourse for the National Academy of Education. It describes the philosophical underpinnings of such civic work and how we might better prepare students for it through schools and universities. I also prepared a commissioned report on the future of education for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
My latest book Learning How to Hope: Reviving Democracy through Schools and Civil Society (Oxford University Press, 2020), responds to current struggles in democracy. It explains what hope is, why it matters to democracy, and how we can teach it in schools, universities, and civcil society. The book received an open access grant making it free for all to download. The project was supported by the Templeton Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, and the Center for Ethics & Education. The book has been the topic of the Bode Lecture at Ohio State University, the Wolfe Lecture in American Politics at Boston College, the Life of the Mind Lecture at the University of Cincinnati, a keynote address to the Association of Teacher Educators, a speech at the Carsey Center of Public Policy, and an invited talk at Goethe University in Germany.
I have received the University of New Hampshire Outstanding Professor award and the University of Cincinnati Distinguished Teaching and Golden Apple awards. I am also the recipient of the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Development Fellowship.
Emeriti Faculty
Timothy W. Allen
Social and Political Philosophy, Democratic Theory, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Critical Thinking, Existentialism, Business Ethics, Philosophy
John Martin
McMicken Professor Emeritus. Areas of Specialty: Formal Semantics, History of Logic, Environmental Ethics., Philosophy
Formal Semantics, History of Logic, Environmental Ethics
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John McEvoy
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Technology, Marx, Foucault, Althusser, Philosophy
John McEvoy works in science studies and political philosophy. He has published extensively on the history and philosophy of science, focusing mainly on the Chemical Revolution, which occurred in the eighteenth century and is generally regarded as the origins of modern chemistry, and twentieth-century interpretations of this important event. He is currently working on more general issues pertaining to the historiography of science and is keen to show how the discipline of the history of science is shaped by wider philosophical and cultural influences. McEvoy also teaches political philosophy, focusing on the classical texts of Marx and Engels and the twentieth-century writings of the Frankfurt School, Foucault, and Althusser. He also teaches courses on the philosophy of technology and the historical and philosophical relations between magic, science, and the occult. His analysis of the 'history of the history of science' since World War Two is available in The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010).
Jenefer Mary Robinson
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychology (emotion theory), Philosophy
For more information, please see her personal website
Leo Simons
Philosophy
William L Todd
Philosophy
Staff
Graduate Students/Assistants
Ramy Amin
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Mel Andrews
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Clifford John-Diego Clemotte
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Vincent James del Prado
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Jacob Bauman Ebbs
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
In phil. mind I focus on questions regarding cognition, action, and embodiment.
I have ancillary interests in the philosophy of humor and of education.
I am also currently pursuing a master's degree in the criminal justice department.
Andrew Harold Evans
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
They/them
Elmo Feiten
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Kyle Keenan Furlane
Philosophy
I also teach pre-college philosophy (or "philosophy for children") around Cincinnati in elementary schools and high schools.
Bradley Aaron Griggs
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Ilir Isufi
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Jonathan Christopher Kanzelmeyer
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Vanessa Taylor Petersen Lovato
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Collin Ford Lucken
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Daniel Elgin Mattox
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
I am happy to answer questions from prospective students about the philosophy department! Please feel free to email me.
My primary research interests are at the intersection of life, mind, and value; I am especially interested in exploring how the life/mind continuity of enactivism can be extended to account for value theory and serve as the groundwork for a new kind of virtue ethics and moral psychology. Beyond my main research areas, I have interests in political philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, critical theory in the humanities and social sciences, and public humanities. My research also draws on global literatures across disciplines and is empirically informed.
I have worked for 4 years at the University of Cincinnati Press. I started in my first year as a Graduate Assistant working in acquisitions and have since been working as an Assistant Editor working on special projects for the press. I have managed the peer review process for several manuscripts, reviewed manuscript proposals, worked as a developmental editor, and done almost every part of the acquisitions process.
I regularly participate in the Research and Discussion Group for the Center for Public Engagement with Science, the Ethics Journal Club, and the annual European Studies Workshop. I was previously the facilitator for the Undergraduate Philosophy Club, I am currently the coach of the first University of Cincinnati Ethics Bowl Team, and sometimes a participant in the Graduate-Undergraduate Research Mentorship program.
In my spare time I like to bake and cook, feed random street cats, and volunteer with local nonprofits and political campaigns. I’m also an AmeriCorps alumnus and an Honorary Kentucky Colonel.
Carlos Andres Munoz
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Mark Lawrence Ornelas
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
My other research is interested in moral psychology, political psychology and philosphy, and transcendental phenomenology.
Christopher Parker
Philosophy
Zachary Daniel Peck
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Richard Javier Stephenson
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Matthew A Willis
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
I am also interested in the work of WVO Quine and the history of early analytic philosophy (especially where Frege, Russell, and Carnap are concerned).
David Wong
Graduate Assistant, Philosophy
Kyle Joseph Yrigoyen
Philosophy