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Faculty


Full-Time Faculty


Karin Brown
Ph.D.,Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York,
Ethics and Political Theory, Feminist Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy

S. D. Noam Cook
BA, MA, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., MIT
Philosophy of Technology, Applied Ethics, Applied Philosophy, Japanese Philosophy

Peter J. Hadreas
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley
Phenomenology, Aristotle, Greek philosophy, Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Economics, Business Ethics, Merleau-Ponty, 20th Century Continental Philosophy

Thomas W. Leddy
Ph.D., Boston University
Philosophy of Art, Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Nietzsche

Tommy L. Lott
Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles
Modern Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, African American
Philosophy and Film/Media and Cultural Studies

Rita C. Manning , Chair
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Feminism

Bo Mou
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Chinese Philosophy, East-West Comparative Philosophy

Carlos Sanchez
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Phenomenology, Epistemology, Mexican Philosophy, Contemporary American Philosophy

William H. Shaw
Ph.D., London School of Economics
Economics, Political and Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Science and Social Science, Marx

Janet Stemwedel
Ph.D. Philosophy, Stanford, Ph.D. Chemistry, Stanford
Philosophy of Science (esp. Chemical Theory and Practice), Metaphysics (esp. Causation), other interests: Ethics of Science, History of Science, Feminist Philosophy of Science

Richard L. Tieszen
Ph.D., Columbia University
Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mathematics, Phenomenology

Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Philosophy of Modality, Philosophy of Mind

Professors from other SJSU departments who teach in Philosophy


Chánh Phan (Humanities)
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Political Philosophy and Asian Philosophies, The Chou I Ching, Tao Te Ching.

Michael Katz (Secondary Education) Ph.D., Stanford
Philosophy of Education, Ethics

Adjunct Faculty


Paul Bashaw
M.A. San Jose State University
Epistemology, Ethics

Lisa Bernasconi
M.A. San Jose State University
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics

Janet Giddings
M.A. University of San Francisco
Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Ethics and Gambling

Douglas E. Henslee
Ph.D., University of Nebraska
Philosophy of Logic, Analytic Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic

James Lindahl
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Philosophy of Social Science, Cross-cultural criticism, Philosophical Issues in Anthropology (ethics of representation and translation theory)

Mike E. Newkirk
M.A., University of California - Riverside; Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
Business Ethics, Philosophy of Religion

George J. Pinto
M.A., London School of Economics; M.A., San Jose State University; Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Business and Professional Ethics

William Quigley
J.D., Hastings College of Law
Philosophy of Law, Ethics

Richard E. Schubert
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein

Mary Ann T. Shukait
M.A., San Jose State University
Business and Professional Ethics, Leadership

Elizabeth Sonnier
Ph.D., Fordham, New York City's Jesuit University
Philosophy of Science, Process Philosophy, Logic, and French Phenomenology and Existentialism

Dan C. Williamson
Ph.D., University of California - Riverside
Continental Philosophies with a specialization in Foucault, Postmodernism and Gender Studies, with an emphasis on ethics in various registers and with corresponding interests in American Studies

Phil Williamson
M.A., San Jose State University
Phenomenology and Existentialism, Philosophy of Religion, and Ancient Greek Philosophy

 


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