Faculty: Philosophy

School of Humanities:
Philosophy Faculty (Board of Study)

Frank B. Farrell
Professor of Philosophy

B.A., M.A., Catholic University; Ph.D., Yale University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. 20th-century philosophy; philosophy of language; philosophy of mind; philosophy and literature.
frank.farrell@purchase.edu

Casey Haskins
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Philosophy of art; philosophy of religion; Kant; American philosophy.
casey.haskins@purchase.edu

Morris B. Kaplan
Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Williams College; M.A., J.D., Yale University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Political and social philosophy; philosophy of law; Plato; lesbian and gay studies.
morris.kaplan@purchase.edu

Marjorie Miller
Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Jackson College; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Asian philosophy; American philosophy; feminist philosophy.
marjorie.miller@purchase.edu

Jennifer K. Uleman
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Modern philosophy; Kant; feminist philosophy; ethics; aesthetics.
jennifer.uleman@purchase.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Naomi Block
Associate Professor Emerita of Language Arts

B.A., Bucknell University; M.A., Manhattanville College; M.A., New School for Social Research. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Philosophy of religion; existentialism; contemporary moral issues.

Marcia Cavell
Associate Professor Emerita of Philosophy

B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Radcliffe College; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Kenley R. Dove
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University. Classical Greek and German philosophy; Aristotle; Kant; Hegel; the history of philosophy; systematic philosophy.

Updated April 29, 2009

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