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Philosophy

John J. Tilley (Chair)

Campus Address: CA 344B
Phone: (317)274-4690
Email: jtilley@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor & Chair of Philosophy
Academic Interests: Ethical theory, practical reason

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Cornelis de Waal (Graduate Advisor)

Campus Address: ES 0017F
Phone: (317)274-2171
Fax: (317)274-2170
Email: cdwaal@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Philosophy;
Editor-in-Chief Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~philosop/cdewaal.htm
Academic Interests: Charles S. Peirce, pragmatism, philosophy of science

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Jason T. Eberl (Graduate Advisor)

Campus Address: CA 333
Phone: (317) 278-9239
Fax: 278-4579
Email: jeberl@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director, Philosophy Graduate Program
Affiliate Faculty, IU Center for Bioethics
Associate Faculty, IU Graduate School
Academic Interests: Medical ethics, metaphysics, medieval philosophy; philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, ethics
Teaching: Genethics (PHIL P696)
Foundations of Bioethics (PHIL P547)
Ethical Theory (PHIL P540/P326)
Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (PHIL P525/P418)
Biomedical Ethics (PHIL P393)
Philosophy through Popular Culture (PHIL P383)
Philosophy of Human Nature (PHIL P322)
Ethics (PHIL P120)
Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL P110)

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Luise Helene Morton (Undergraduate Advisor)

Campus Address: CA 340A
Phone: (317)274-5338
Email: lmorton@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer, Philosophy Department
Research Associate, Peirce Edition Project,
Lead Advisor for undergraduate philosophy majors
Academic Interests: Analytic philosophy, the philosophy of C.S. Peirce, logic, epistemology, philosophy of art

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Peg Zeglin Brand

Campus Address: CA 344A
Phone: (317) 274-8851
Email: pb@indiana.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor Philosophy and Women's Studies
Website: www.pegbrand.com
Academic Interests: philosophy of art, aesthetics, feminist philosophy including bioethics, existentialist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, medical humanities, and fine arts/studio: painting
Teaching: Intro to Philosophy (PHIL P110), Intro to Ethics (PHIL P120), Women in Philosophical Thought (PHIL P282), Philosophy of Art (PHIL P367/P600), Feminist Philosophy (PHIL P394), Philosophy and Culture (PHIL P414), Medical Humanities (MHHS M492/M592), Intro to Women's Studies (WOST W105), Topics in Women's Studies (WOST W300/W701)

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Chad Carmichael

Campus Address: CA340C
Email: chadRcarmichael@gmail.com
Appointments: Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Academic Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

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M. A. Coleman

Campus Address: ES 0025M
Phone: (317)278-8572
Email: martcole@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Director and Lead Advisor, American Studies Program
Associate Editor, Santayana Edition
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/
Academic Interests: American Philosophy, George Santayana, John Dewey
Teaching: Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, Ethics, American Philosophy, George Santayana, John Dewey, History of Philosophy

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André De Tienne

Campus Address: ES 0017B
Phone: (317)274-2033
Email: adetienn@iupui.edu
Appointments: Director and General Editor of the Peirce Edition Project; Professor of Philosophy; Associated faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Semiology of the Université du Québec à Montréal
Academic Interests: Classical philosophy, pragmatistic philosophy, Charles S. Peirce, Josiah Royce, logic of signs, connection between phenomenology and semiotics, philosophy of text.
Teaching: Seminar in American Philosophy: The Idealisms of Peirce and Royce (P448/P748); The Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce (P503); Seminar on Josiah Royce’s Philosophy (P748); Peirce Seminar: Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy (P448/P701).

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Richard Gunderman

Campus Address: RI 1053, CA 331B
Phone: (317) 278-6303
Email: rbgunder@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy
Academic Interests: Philosophical ethics Biomedical ethics Ethics of philanthropy Professionalism
Teaching: Ethical, Moral, and Religious Perspectives on Philanthropy Ethics and Values of Philanthropy Biomedical Ethics A Life Well Lived The Formation of Character

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Nathan Houser (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Founding Directory, Institute for American Thought Senior Fellow, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: American thought
Pragmatism
Thought of C. S. Peirce
Formal semiotics
History of logic
Critical Editing
Theory of Text

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J. Gregory Keller

Campus Address: CA 344C
Phone: (317)278-5738
Email: jgkeller@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy; Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Academic Interests: Ethics; Contemporary social and political issues; 20th-century thought; Continental philosophy; Philosophy of culture
Teaching: Philosophy and Culture (PHIL P414), Twentieth-Century Philosophy (PHIL P316), Seminar in the History of Philosophy (Aristotle) (PHIL P418), Ethics (PHIL P120)

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Laurence Lampert (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Academic Interests: history of philosophy
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Timothy D. Lyons

Campus Address: CA 333D
Phone: (317)278-7768
Email: tdlyons@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Associate Faculty Member of IU Graduate School
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~philosop/tlyons.htm
Academic Interests: Philosophy of science, especially the epistemic status of scientific theories, the aims of scientific inquiry, the nature of theory change, and methodology.

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Eric M. Meslin

Campus Address: EF 200
Phone: 278-4034
Fax: 278-4050
Email: emeslin@iupui.edu
Appointments: Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics
Assistant Dean for Bioethics, IU School of Medicine;
Academic Interests: Bioethics, applied ethics, research ethics, moral philosophy, health/science policy, international health research, transplantation, stem cell research

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Ursula Niklas Peterson

Campus Address: CA 333C
Phone: 274-2667
Email: uniklas@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Philosophy
Academic Interests: history of modern philosophy, twentieth-century philosophy, existentialism, hermeneutics, Martin Heidegger, and philosophy of art and literature

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David Pfeifer

Campus Address: ES0017N
Phone: 278-2306
Email: depfeife@iupui.edu
Appointments: Director, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: Charles S. Peirce;
History of American Philosophy;
Pragmatism

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Victoria Rogers

Campus Address: CA 331A
Phone: 278-1001
Email: rogersv@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer - Department of Philosophy, IUPUI Letter of Appointment Faculty, University of Nevada Reno (summers)
Academic Interests: Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Logic and Critical Thinking

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Peter H. Schwartz

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Associate Faculty ( Philosophy )