About Our Faculty

UM-St. Louis has a distinguished philosophy department. Its members hold advanced degrees from the nation's most prestigious graduate programs and are actively engaged in research. They have published numerous articles and books addressing traditional questions of philosophy as well as contemporary controversies. Among the fields representing the department particularly strongly are moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of law, philosophy of medicine, and philosophy of art. For their research in some of these areas, members have been awarded a number of national research grants, including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In keeping with its emphasis on diversity, the Department employs scholars trained in widely different approaches to philosophy, including the analytic tradition, continental philosophy and existentialism, Marxist dialectic, Islamic philosophy, and Asian modes of thought.

For more information on our faculty, please visit the biographical links on the Faculty Directory.