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; Inaugural Director, The Ethics Program (1999-2005)
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
Peter Koch, PhD
Associate Professor
Research: Biomedical and Clinical Ethics, Political Philosophy, Applied Ontology
(610) 519-4706
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
Omar Quiñonez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research: Hegel, German Idealism, Marx and Marxism, Ontology
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

Joint-Appointment Faculty

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

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