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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

Alan Baker

Professor

Department Chair, Philosophy

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8342
  2. Beardsley Hall 211C
  3. Office Hours:

    F'23 - Monday and Thursday 1:30 – 2:30 pm and by appointment

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

Alan Baker and Shogi board

Peter Baumann

Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion

On Leave - Academic Year

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8433
  2. Beardsley Hall 212
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Interests:Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Practical Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy and Contemporary Analytical Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Göttingen.

Grace Ledbetter

Professor

Classics

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8372
  2. Trotter Hall 204
  3. Office Hours:

     

    Please email gledbet1@swarthmore.edu for zoom link

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Interests: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Greek poetry

Grace Ledbetter

Tamsin Lorraine

Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8423
  2. Beardsley Hall 211A
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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:

    F'23 - Tuesday,  12:45-2:00pm, Wednesday 12:25-1:10pm and  by appointment

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

Charles Raff

Krista Thomason

Associate Professor

Philosophy

First Generation & Low-Income Student Initiatives

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8429
  2. Beardsley Hall 209
  3. Office Hours:

    F'23 - Wednesday 2:00– 4:00 pm and by appointment

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

Krista Thomason

Sabeen Ahmed

(she-her-hers-herself)

Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8428
  2. Beardsley Hall 211B
  3. Office Hours:

    F'23 - Tuesday and Wednesday, 10:00am-12:00pm, and by appointment

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

Sabeen Ahmed looking at a painting of a woman

Rosanna Picascia

Visiting Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3359
  2. Office Hours:

    F'23 - Wednesday,  2:00-4:00pm and by appointment

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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

Emeriti

Rick Eldridge

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8426
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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

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8426
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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

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8426

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

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8426

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