Our Faculty

Dr. Aeon J. Skoble
Professor of Philosophy
Chairman, Department of Philosophy
341 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-2460
fax: (508)531-1781
email: askoble (at) bridgew (dot) edu
website: http://webhost.bridgew.edu/askoble/

Professor Skoble is the author of Deleting the State: An Argument about Government (Open Court, 2008), the editor of Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty (Lexington Books, 2008), and the co-editor of Political Philosophy: Essential Selections (Prentice-Hall, 1999) and Reality, Reason, and Rights (Lexington Books, 2011).  Besides his academic work, he has frequently lectured and written for the Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education.   His main research includes theories of rights, the nature and justification of authority, and virtue ethics.  In addition, he writes widely on the intersection of philosophy and popular culture, among other things co-editing the best-selling The Simpsons and Philosophy (Open Court, 2000).  Prof. Skoble received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MA and PhD from Temple University.

 

Dr. Matthew Dasti
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
335 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-2857
fax: (508)531-1781
email: Matthew.Dasti (at) bridgew (dot) edu
website: http://sites.google.com/site/matthewdasti/

Professor Dasti's primary research interest is classical Indian thought, and especially the Nyaya tradition of Hindu philosophy. His general interests include epistemology, philosophy of religion, Chinese philosophy and ancient Greek thought. He has published in journals that include Apeiron, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Philosophy East and West, and Asian Philosophy.  He is co-editor of and contributor to Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (Oxford University Press).   Prof. Dasti received his BA from Rutgers University and his MA and PhD from the University of Texas.

Dr. William J. Devlin
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Course Coordinator for FLR
319 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-2602
fax: (508)531-1781
email: wdevlin (at) bridgew (dot) edu

Prof. Devlin's interests include the philosophy of science, theories of truth, Nietzsche, existentialism, and 19th-century philosophy.

Dr. Gal Kober
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
326 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-1817
fax: (508)531-1781
email: gal.kober (at) bridgew (dot) edu

Professor Kober's work in applied ethics is centered on environmental and biomedical ethics. She focuses especially on the intersection of medicine and ritual, medical tourism, and organ markets. Professor Kober has also worked in the philosophy of biology, focusing on the dysfunction of the concept species in evolutionary biology. She is also interested in scientific classification, in the function of language in science, and in the emotional origins of ethical positions.  Prof. Kober received her BA from Tel Aviv University and her PhD from Boston University.

 

Dr. Laura McAlinden
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director, Faculty Advocacy Network
327 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-2789
fax: (508)531-1781
email: lmcalinden (at) bridgew (dot) edu

Prof. McAlinden teaches courses in History of Modern Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, and Free Will and Determinism.  Her main areas of research include Leibniz, Malebranche, and the metaphysics of causation.

Dr. Catherine Womack
Professor of Philosophy
330 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-2259
fax: (508)531-1781
email: cwomack (at) bridgew (dot) edu

Prof. Womack's primary research is in the philosophy of public health and medicine.  Her most recent articles are based on qualitative social science research on eating, agency, and social networks in collaboration with Norah Mulvaney-Day, Ph.D., of The Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research in Somerville, MA.  She teaches a variety of Second Year Seminars based on that research, notably You Don't Want Fries with That:  Food, Identity and Human Agency, and Issues in Global Public Health Ethics.  In addition she teaches Philosophy of Mind and Language, Knowledge and Skepticism, Technology and Values, and Foundations of Logical Reasoning. 

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Dr. Robert Fitzgibbons
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
email: rfitzgibbons (at) bridgew (dot) edu

Prof. Fitzgibbons still teaches Foundations of Logical Reasoning for BSU online.  His main areas of research include ethical justification and the nature of concepts.

Dr. Ed James
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
email: ejames (at) bridgew (dot) edu
website: http://webhost.bridgew.edu/ejames/

Professor James has published in such journals as Mind, Philosophy, and Ethics, where he has primarily focused on questions of the nature of justification and ethical pluralism. 

Dr. Francine Quaglio
Professor Emerita of Philosophy
email: fquaglio (at) bridgew (dot) edu

Dr. Steven M. Sanders
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
email: stevenmsanders7 (at) comcast (dot) net

Steven Sanders took early retirement at the end of 2003 to write full time. His recent publications include The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film, The Philosophy of TV Noir (with Aeon J. Skoble), and the forthcoming Hitchcock as Moralist (with R. Barton Palmer).

 

Adjunct faculty, Fall 2012:
Dr. Paul Bohan Broderick
Prof. Angel Cooper
Dr. Edward Engelmann
Prof. Anthony Jannotta
Prof. Tristan Johnson
Dr. Mary Kay Klein
Prof. Paul Klumpe
Prof. Dermot Luddy 
Dr. Peter Marton
Dr. Jennifer Mogg
Prof. Randall Rose
Prof. Kateryna Samoilova
Dr. Jerry Steinhofer
Prof. Joseph Spencer 
Prof. Nikolaus Tressler
Prof. Paul Van Rooy
Dr. Kent Wallace
 

 

 

Last Modified: March 20, 2013