Philosophy Department

Faculty and Staff

Chair

Bruce B. Janz

Research Interests: Research on Place and Space; Contemporary African Philosophy; Cultural Philosophy; Contemporary European Philosophy; Aesthetics and Visual Culture; History of Mysticism; Interdisciplinarity

Michael Strawser

Research Interests: Kierkegaard, Spinoza, Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion

Faculty

Shaun Gallagher

Research Interests: Phenomenology and philosophical psychology; Cognitive Science; Embodied cognition; Intersubjectivity and social cognition; Action theory; Self and personal identity; Time

Mason Cash

Research Interests: Philosophy of cognitive science; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of language; Ethics

Claudia Schippert

Research Interests: The central focus of Dr. Schippert's research in queer theory and religion is the body: how bodies are discursively constructed in religious traditions as well as in American culture; how popular culture and various media affect representations and practices of bodies; and how these questions can be pursued in ways that call attention to the role of gender, race, and sexuality in contemporary society.

Nancy A. Stanlick

Research Interests: Ethics; Social Philosophy; Academic Ethics; History of Modern and American Philosophy

Research Interests: Gender Studies; Native American Philosophy; Interdisciplinary Humanities

Jane Compson

Research Interests: Theravada Buddhism and Comparative Religion; Environmental Ethics; Animal Ethics; Medical and veterinary Ethics; Contemplative Education; Mindfulness

Harry Scott Coverston

Research Interests: Education and the Humanities, LBGT justice issues, Stages of moral/faith development (Kohlberg, Gilligan, Rest, Fowler, Beck, Wilber); Latin American Humanities; Liberation theology; State killing attitudes and religious correlates; Ethics and Torture and Genocide; Religion in America; Religion in the 21st Century; Juergen Habermas/Frankfurt School; Holocaust studies

Sabatino DiBernardo

Research Interests: Pyrrhonian Skepticism; Philosophy of Religion; Deconstruction; Philosophy, Religion and Popular Culture

Michele Merritt

Research Interests: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Gender Theory, Embodiment, Philosophy of Technology, Phenomenology, Logic, Performance Theory

Todd Brenneman

Research Interests: Religion in the United States; American evangelicalism; Children and religion; Mormonism; Religion and popular culture; Religion and emotion

Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Ethical Theory, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Mind and Action

Staff

Philosophy Department • College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Central Florida
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