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FACULTY
 |  | Davis Baird (Ph.D., Stanford, 1981). Professor and Dean, South Carolina Honors College. Areas of specialization: History and philosophy of science and technology, including the philosophy of statistics and inductive logic; scientific instrumentation, with an emphasis on analytical chemical instrumentation developed during the mid-20th century; nanotechnology. Current research: Philosophical, societal, and ethical implications of nanotechnology. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Anne Bezuidenhout (Ph.D., Michigan, 1990). Associate Professor. Areas of specialization: Pragmatics; semantics/pragmatics interface; theories of verbal communication; experimental pragmatics; philosophy of mind; epistemology. Current research: Indexicals and context-shifting; generalized conversational implicatures and default reasoning. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Tom Burke (Ph.D., Stanford, 1992). Associate Professor. Areas of specialization: American philosophy, pragmatism, pragmatist philosophy of mind, John Dewey's philosophy of logic, G. H. Mead's social psychology. Current research: Pragmatist philosophy of mind and views of human origins; pragmatism and pragmatics. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Michael Dickson (Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1995). Professor. Areas of specialization: Philosophy of science; philosophy of physics; philosophy of quantum mechanics; late Hellenistic philosophy; logic; philosophy of mathematics; science and religion. Current research: Reference frames in quantum theory; the role of mathematical beauty in scientific understanding. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Martin Donougho (Ph.D., Toronto, 1980). Professor. Areas of specialization: German Idealism; aesthetics; continental philosophy; 19C philosophy; philosophy of history; modern philosophy. Current research: Genealogical study of philosophy of art--formation of a discourse about art, and current prospects. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Kevin Elliott (Ph.D., Notre Dame, 2004). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Philosophy of science; philosophy of biology; science and values; environmental ethics; biomedical ethics. Current research: Analyzing contemporary toxicology from both philosophy-of-science and practical-ethics perspectives (e.g., examination of research strategies, consideration of the role that contextual values play, evaluation of public policies for responding to uncertainty); environmental pragmatism; ethics of expertise. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Jeremiah Hackett (Ph.D., Toronto, 1983). Professor and Chair. Areas of specialization: Late ancient, medieval and Renaissance philosophy; neoplatonism; Roger Bacon and his contemporaries; medieval and Renaissance science; metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Current research: Roger Bacon and Averroism; Robert Grosseteste's Commentary on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle; Meister Eckhart and philosophy in 14c. Germany; Heidegger on Augustine; Heidegger on the uses of history of philosophy and science. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | RIG Hughes (Ph.D., British Columbia, 1979). Professor. Areas of specialization: Philosophy of physics; philosophical logic; theatre aesthetics; theoretical practices of physics. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Ann Johnson (Ph.D., History of Science, Princeton, 2000). Assistant Professor, History and Philosophy. Areas of specialization: History and philosophy of engineering. Current research: Engineering design, technological knowledge, and the social and epistemological structures of engineering communities; computational nanotechnology. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | George Khushf (Ph.D., Rice, 1993). Associate Professor. Areas of specialization: Bioethics and philosophy of medicine; concepts of health and disease; medical epistemology and axiology. Current research: Market-based health care. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Matthew Kisner (Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2003). Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Advisement. Areas of specialization: early modern philosophy, particularly the rationalists, particularly Spinoza. Current research: the history of ethics and political philosophy; the history of naturalism, broadly construed, in the seventeenth-century. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Leah McClimans (Ph.D., London School of Economics, 2007). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Bioethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science. Current research: Methodology of health-related quality of life measures; the art of questioning and the use of empirical outcomes in bioethical decisions. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Konstantin Pollok (Dr. phil, Marburg, 2000). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Modern philosophy with special emphasis on Kant; history of science; practical reasoning. Current research: Kant's theory of normativity. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Heike Sefrin-Weis (Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 2002; Dr. rer. nat., Mainz, 1997). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Ancient philosophy & ancient science, particularly Aristotle; Greek mathematics; history and philosophy of mathematics. Current research: Translation and commentary on Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio IV. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Christopher Tollefsen (Ph.D., Emory, 1995). Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Areas of specialization: Practical ethics. Current research: basis goods ethics, ethics of inquiry, disability and social justice. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Jerald Wallulis (Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1978). Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Areas of specialization: Contemporary German social philosophy; social philosophy; philosophy of religion; general history of philosophy. Current research: Philosophical implications of social insecurity; conceptions of transcendence and transversality in the philosophy of religion. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Justin Weinberg (Ph.D., Georgetown, 2004). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Political and social philosophy, ethics. Current research: Questions about the scope of justice and who is responsible for it; the role of empirical information in normative theory; non-ideal theory; moral experimentation; ethical questions about the future and future generations, especially in regard to new technologies and social change. [ directory | send email ] |
Emeriti:
 | | Eugene Long (Ph.D., Glasgow, 1964). Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Areas of specialization: Phenomenology and existentialism; philosophy of religion; issues in contemporary European philosophy of religion. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Robert Mulvaney (Ph.D., Emory, 1965). Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Areas of specialization: Seventeenth century philosophy; philosophy of education; philosophy for children. Current research: Reception of Leibniz in America. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Ignas Skrupskelis (Ph.D., Toronto, 1967). Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Areas of specialization: American philosophy; modern philosophy. Current research: William James's correspondence. [ directory | send email ] |
Associated Faculty:
 | | Edward Munn Sanchez (Ph.D., Emory, 1996). Adjunct Faculty and Associate Dean, South Carolina Honors College. Areas of specialization: Social and political philosophy; ethical, social, and political Issues in science and in particular nanotechnology; ethical theory; applied ethics; philosophy of technoogy; engineering ethics; professional ethics. Current research: The normative role of experts in science policy; normative issues raised by nanotechnology and the convergence of nanotech, information technology, cognitive science, and biotechnology. The relation of science to liberal democracy. Science and the development of National Identity. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Alfred Nordmann (Ph.D., Hamburg, 1986). Adjunct Faculty and Professor, Technische Universitat Darmstadt. Areas of specialization: History, philosophy, and sociology of science; epistemology; theatre aesthetics; Kant, Lichtenberg, Hertz, Peirce, and Wittgenstein. Current research: The emergence and development of nanotechnoscience; the epistemological ideal of unmediated cognition in Kant, Hertz, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of science. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Daniel O'Connell (M.A., University of Dallas, 1995). Visiting Faculty. Areas of specialization: History of philosophy; medieval philosophy and knowledge theory in the Middle Ages. Current research: The role of skepticism in the epistemology of Nicholas of Cusa; the relationship between the 'platonic' and the 'modern' elements in Cusa's thought; logic in the later medieval period; historiography of philosophy. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Anne Pollok (Dr.phil., Halle/Germany, 2007). Instructor. Areas of specialization: History of Early Modern Philosophy with special emphasis on anthropology and aesthetics (Mendelssohn, Kant, Schiller, among others). Current research: 18th century debate on the 'destination of man'. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Jeffrey Turner (Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2006). Instructor. Areas of specialization: ethics; pragmatism; Wittgenstein; Aristotle; MacIntyre. [ directory | send email ] |
 | | Thomas Vogt (Ph.D., Chemistry, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen Germany, 1987). Adjunct Faculty and Director, USC NanoCenter. Areas of specialization: history of science; epistemology; ethical, legal, and societal implications of nanotechnology; science policy issues. Current research: science and technology studies; mode-II knowledge production; post-academic science. [ directory | send email ] |
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