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/

Prof. Skoble's research interests include: virtue ethics, practical reason and moral psychology, just war theory, theories of rights, the nature and justification of authority, theories of legal interpretation, the nature of aesthetic value, philosophy and popular culture, the history of logic, and the origins of logical metatheory.  He teaches classes in political philosophy, moral philosophy, ancient philosophy, and logic.

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/

Prof. Dasti's main area of research is classical Indian philosophy.  He is also interested in Chinese philosophy, Greek philosophy, philosophy of religion, and epistemology generally.

Dr. William J. Devlin
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
FLR Coordinator
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. Robert Fitzgibbons
Professor of Philosophy
328 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-2459
fax: (508)531-1781
email: rfitzgibbons (at) bridgew (dot) edu

Prof. Fitzgibbons teaches Foundations of Logical Reasoning, Medical Ethics, Symbolic Logic, Philosophy of Education, and Ethics and Action.  His main areas of research include ethical justification and the nature of concepts.

Dr. Laura McAlinden
Associate Professor of Philosophy
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. 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 Emeritus 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, Spring 2012:
Dr. Edward Engelmann
Prof. Tristan Johnson
Dr. Mary Kay Klein
Prof. Paul Klumpe
Prof. Simon Leen 
Prof. Dermot Luddy 
Dr. Peter Marton
Dr. Jennifer Mogg
Prof. Michael Robillard
Prof. Randall Rose
Prof. Kateryna Samoilova
Prof. Elisabeta Sarca
Dr. Jerry Steinhofer
Prof. Joseph Spencer 
Prof. Nikolaus Tressler
Prof. Paul Van Rooy
Dr. Kent Wallace
Prof. Michael Young

 

 

Last Modified: January 4, 2012