FACULTY AND STAFF

Department Chair

Faculty

Farshid Baghai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, PhD, HEC-C
Professor of Philosophy; Director, Health Humanities & Medical Arts Program; Founding Director, The Ethics Program
John M Carvalho, PhD
Professor
Associate Editor, Contemporary Aesthetics

Research: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Motion Pictures, Embodied Cognition, Ancient Greek Philosophy


William Desmond, Ph.D.
David R. Cook Chair in Philosophy. Research: Hegel, German Idealism, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Aesthetics.
Lisa M. Dolling, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor and Associate Dean, CLAS
Martina Ferrari
Assistant Professor
Managing Editor, Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology
Ashley Lamarre
Assistant Professor
Research: Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Feminist Philosophy, Black Feminist Thought, Black Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy
Stephen Napier Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research: epistemology, bioethics, cognitive science of intuitions, philosophy of religion
Delia Popa, PhD
Associate Professor
(610) 519-4698
Gabriel Rockhill, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy & Global Interdisciplinary Studies
Director of Cultural Studies
Director of the Critical Theory Workshop
Research Associate at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique – LAP (EHESS, Paris)
Research: Modern and Contemporary Thought; Cultural Studies; Social and Political Theory; Philosophy of the Global South; Race, Gender & Class Relations
Web: http://gabrielrockhill.com
Surti Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy
Book Series Co-Editor, Psychoanalytic Acts (Edinburgh University Press) https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/series-psychoanalytic-acts
Georg Theiner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Phenomenology and Embodied Cognition, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Language

Editor-in-chief, Social Epistemology. A Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Policy (Print ISSN: 0269-1728 Online ISSN: 1464-5297). 6 issues/year. Web: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsep20

Web: http://villanova.academia.edu/GeorgTheiner

James Wetzel, Ph.D.
Professor
Augustinian Endowed Chair
Director of the Augustinian Institute
Research: Augustine, Platonism,
Moral Psychology, Mythopoiesis

Joint-Appointment Faculty

Gregory D. Hoskins, Ph.D.
Director, Augustine and Culture Seminar Program
Mark Doorley, Ph.D.
Director, The Ethics Program

Emeriti 

Joseph Betz

Walter Brogan

Thomas Busch

John Caputo

Jack Doody

John Fielder

John Immerwahr

James McCartney – Associate Professor Emeritus

Lawrence Stepelevich

Barbara Wall

 

 

Staff

Alexandra Penkalskyj
Senior Administrative Assistant
Theresa DiMartino
Program Coordinator

Department of Philosophy
Villanova University, SAC 108
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085

John M Carvalho, PhD, Chairperson

Alexandra Penkalskyj 610-519-4690 Sr. Administrative Assistant

Julie Klein, PhD, Graduate Program Director

Terry DiMartino 610-519-8997 Graduate Program Coordinator