Faculty & Staff
Faculty
- Samuel Asarnow
- Chair, Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Ethics, Action Theory, Metaethics
- sasarnow@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6246
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- Geoffrey Gorham
- Professor of Philosophy
- Modern philosophy, Descartes
- ggorham@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6048
- Sumeet Patwardhan
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy, and social philosophy
- spatward@macalester.edu
- Bixin Guo
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- philosophy of physics, general philosophy of science, and metaphysics; reduction, emergence, or inter-level relations in general; Chinese philosophy, feminist philosophy, and ethics
- bguo@macalester.edu
- Amy Ihlan
- Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
- law and philosophy
- ihlan@macalester.edu
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- Rotem Herrmann
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, phenomenology
- rherrman@macalester.edu
Retired Faculty
- Janet Folina
- Professor of Philosophy
- Symbolic logic, philosophy of math, philosophy of science
- folina@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6159
- Joy Laine
- Adjunct Professor, Philosophy
- Focuses on the philosophy of mind and language in the context of both Western and Indian philosophical traditions
- lainej@macalester.edu
- Diane Michelfelder
- Professor of Philosophy
- 20th Century European philosophy, philosophy of technology and engineering, animal ethics.
- michelfelder@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6197
- William Wilcox
- Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Ethics, Philosophy of Law
- wilcox@macalester.edu
- Martin Gunderson
- DeWitt Wallace Professor of Philosophy
- Philosophy of human rights, ethics, healthcare
- gunderson@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6153
- Henry West
- Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
- Ethics, Utilitarianism
- west@macalester.edu
Staff
- Sara Dion
- Department Coordinator
- sdion@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6141