Faculty & Staff

department faculty

Sabeen Ahmed, Alan Baker, Tamsin Lorraine, (Watching Woman), Krista Thomason, Peter Baumann, Rosanna Picascia (not pictured Charles Raff) World Philosophy Day 11/17/22

Faculty & Staff

Peter Baumann

Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8433
  2. Beardsley Hall 212
  3. Office Hours: S'25 Monday 3:00-5:00pm and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Practical Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy and Contemporary Analytical Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Göttingen.

Photo of Peter Baumann

Sabeen Ahmed

(she-her-hers-herself)

Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8428
  2. Beardsley Hall 211B
  3. Office Hours: S'25 - Monday & Wednesday 3:00-5:00pm and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests:  Political Philosophy of Race; Philosophy of Law; Colonial/Imperial Studies; Foucault

Sabeen Ahmed looking at a painting of a woman

Alan Baker

Professor

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8342
  2. Beardsley Hall 211C
  3. Office Hours: S'25 -  Monday 11:00-12:00 and Thursday 1:30 - 2:30pm and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics
Ph.D., Princeton University. 

Alan Baker with a shogi board

Grace Ledbetter

Professor

On Leave - Spring

Classics

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8372
  2. Trotter Hall 204
  3. Office Hours:  Please email gledbet1@swarthmore.edu for zoom link; on leave Spring 2026

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Greek poetry

Photograph of Grace Ledbetter

Tamsin Lorraine

Professor

Program Coordinator, Interpretation Theory

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8423
  2. Beardsley Hall 211A
  3. Office Hours: F'24 Tuesday and Thursday 12:45-2:00pm and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory

Professor Tamsin Lorraine

Charles Raff

Professor

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8425
  2. Beardsley Hall 210
  3. Office Hours: S'25 - Tuesday 12:35-1:35pm and Wednesday 12:15-1:15pm and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: 17th and 18th century, ancient, and 20th century analytic philosophy, metaphysics. Ph.D. Brown University.

Charles Raff

Krista Thomason

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Philosophy

On Leave - Spring

Philosophy

First Generation & Low-Income Student Initiatives

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8429
  2. Office Hours: On leave Spring 2025

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Kant's Moral Theory, Social/Political Philosophy
Ph.D., Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Krista Thomason

Rosanna Picascia

Visiting Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3359
  2. Beardsley Hall 209
  3. Office Hours: S'25 - Wednesday  2:00-4:00pm and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests:  Asian Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Ph.D. Harvard University

Rosanna Picascia

Donna Mucha

Administrative Assistant II, Philosophy; Administrative Assistant II, Phi Beta Kappa, Philosophy

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8426
  2. Beardsley Hall 208A
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Emeriti

Rick Eldridge

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Philosophy

Contact

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Aesthetics and Theory of Criticism, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy and Literature, German Idealism, Wittgenstein, Romanticism
Ph.D., University of Chicago. 

Hugh Lacey

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Philosophy

Contact

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy & Biotechnology 
Ph.D., Indiana University. 

Hans Oberdiek

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Philosophy

Contact

Interests: Moral Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Technology, Environmental Ethics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison

Rich Schuldenfrei

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Philosophy

Contact

Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.