Our Faculty

Dr. Aeon J. Skoble -- on sabbatical Spring 09
Chair, Department of Philosophy
Professor 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.

Dr. William J. Devlin
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
204 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. Ed James -- acting Chair, Spring 09
Professor of Philosophy
327 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-2458
fax: (508)531-1781
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. Laura McAlinden
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
FLR Coordinator
ATP Coordinator
319 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. Francine Quaglio
Professor of Philosophy
330 Tillinghast Hall
tel: (508)531-2276
fax: (508)531-1781
email: fquaglio (at) bridgew (dot) edu

Prof. Quaglio teaches in the First Year Seminar Program, has developed a new course on Medieval Philosophy, and continues to interrogate [with a skeptical posture] the status of metaphysical reality.

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).

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

Prof. Womack teaches Values and Technology, Mind and Language, and Foundations of Logical Reasoning.  Her main areas of research include philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and logic.

 

Adjunct faculty, Fall 2008:
Prof. Drew Berkowitz
Dr. Paul Bohan Broderick 
Prof. Daniel Davenport
Dr. Edward Engelmann
Prof. Paul Gelbach
Dr. Edward Kamoski
Dr. Mary Kay Klein
Prof. Simon Leen 
Prof. Dermot Luddy 
Dr. Peter Marton
Prof. Kevin Morris
Prof. Randall Rose
Prof. Kateryna Samoilova
Dr. Jerry Steinhofer 
Prof. Nikolaus Tressler
Prof. Valentina Urbanek
Prof. Paul Van Rooy
Prof. Daniel Vecchio
Prof. Kent Wallace

 

Last Modified: December 15, 2008