Graduate School Bulletin

https://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/graduatebulletin/current/academicprograms/phi/faculty.php

Professors

Carravetta, Peter, Ph.D. 1983, NYU: Modern thought and hermeneutics; Italian philosophy

Crease, Robert, Ph.D., 1987, Columbia University: Philosophy of science; aesthetics.

Dilworth, David, Ph.D., 1963, Fordham University; Ph.D., 1970, Columbia University: History of philosophy, East Asian languages, and cultures.

Mar, Gary, Ph.D., 1985, University of California, Los Angeles: Logic; philosophy of mathematics; contemporary analytic philosophy; philosophy of religion.

Miller, Clyde Lee, Ph.D., 1974, Yale University: History of philosophy.

Simpson, Lorenzo, Ph.D., 1978, Yale University: Contemporary continental philosophy (hermeneutics and critical theory); philosophy of the social sciences; philosophy of science and technology; neopragmatism and post-analytic philosophy; philosophy and race.

Steinbock, Anthony, PhD., 1993, Stony Brook University;  Phenomenology; Contemporary German and French Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Social Ontology, and Aesthetics.

Associate Professors

Cormier, Harvey J., Ph.D., 1992 Harvard University: American philosophy; William James and pragmatism; philosophy and culture; philosophy of biology; philosophy of race.

Craig, Megan, Ph.D., 2006, New School of Social Research: Ethics; aesthetics; pragmatism; phenomenolgy; Levinas.

Kim, Alan, Ph.D., Ph.D., 2001, McGill University: Ancient Greek philosophy; German philosophy.

O’Byrne, Anne., Ph.D, 1999, Vanderbilt University: 20^th-century and contemporary European philosophy; political philosophy.

Assistant Professors

Ansari, Rosabel, Ph.D., 2020, Georgetown University: Classical and post-classical Islamic philosophy;
Graeco-Arabic Studies

Lemelin, Joseph., Ph.D., 2018, The New School for Social Research: Philosophy of Technology, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Mind, and Ancient Philosophy

Full Time Lecturer

Carter, Jennifer, Ph.D., 2018, Stony Brook University

Adjunct Professors

Brockelman, Thomas, Ph.D., 1992, Stony Brook University: 19 th & 20 th -Century Continental Philosophy,
Aesthetics and Philosophies of Art, Modern and Postmodern Studies, Freudian & Lacanian Psychoanalytic
Theory, Digital Philosophy, Philosophy & Architecture.

Irwin, Brian, Ph.D., 2014, Stony Brook University: 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology,
Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Place.

Emeritus Faculty

Casey, Edward S., Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., 1967, Northwestern University: Aesthetics;
phenomenology; philosophy of psychology.

de Laurentiis, Allegra, Emeritus and Toll Professor, effective January 22, 2024 PhD, 1982, University of Frankfurt. Nineteenth Century German Philosophy; Greek Philosophy

Edwards, Jeffrey B.,  Emeritus and Toll Professor, effective January 22, 2024  Ph.D., 1987, Universität Marburg, Germany: History of philosophy; Kant; modern philosophy.

Grim, Patrick , B. Phil., 1975, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; Ph.D., 1976, Boston University: Logic;
ethics; computer modeling; contemporary analytic philosophy.

Harvey, Robert, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. 1988, University of California, Berkeley; aesthetics,
literature-philosophy interpenetrations, history of ideas, critical theory.

Kittay, Eva, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., 1978, City University of New York: Philosophy of language;
philosophy and literature; feminism.

Nolan, Rita, Ph.D., 1965, University of Pennsylvania: foundations of cognitive science; philosophy of art;
philosophy of language.

Rawlinson, Mary C., Ph.D., 1978, Northwestern University: 19th-century philosophy; Hegel; contemporary
French philosophy; aesthetics and literary theory; bioethics.

Welton, Donn, Ph.D., 1973, Southern Illinois University: Phenomenology and epistemology; philosophical psychology; Contemporary German philosophy.

Number of teaching, graduate, and research assistants, Fall 2023: 26

[1] Joint Appointment in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature.  Recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

[2] Recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1980

[3] Joint Appointments in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, and The College of Business. Recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1984.

[4] Recipient of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award, 1990; University of Richmond’s Distinguished Educator Award, 1984

[5] Joint appointment with Linguistics, Chancellor’s and President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993; Pew Scholar’s Award, 1995; Outstanding Professor Award from the Alumni Association, 1995; Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in University Service, 2015.

[6] Recipient of the State University Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1988

[7] Recipient of President’s and Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity, 2005

[8] Recipient of the State University Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1978