Faculty & Staff

Helena de Bres

Associate Professor of Philosophy

B.A., Victoria University; M.A., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Works on philosophy of literature and moral philosophy, with a focus on personal narration, memoir and meaning in life.

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Corinne A. Gartner

Associate Professor of Philosophy

B.A., M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Princeton University

Works on ancient Greek philosophy, with emphasis on ancient ethics and moral psychology.

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Erich Hatala Matthes

Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director, The Camilla Chandler Frost ’47 Center for the Environment

B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

Researches and teaches the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of cultural heritage, art, and the environment.

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Mary Kate McGowan

Margaret Clapp ’30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of Philosophy

B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Professor of metaphysics, philosophy of language and law; also teaches logic and various seminars.

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Alison G. McIntyre

Virginia Onderdonk ’29 Professor of Philosophy

B.A., M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Princeton University

Main interests: philosophy of mind,moral theory, the history of moralphilosophy, especially18th-century British moral psychology.

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Julie Walsh

Associate Professor of Philosophy

B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., University of Western Ontario

Researches and teaches topics in early modern philosophy, with a focus on theories of human freedom and philosophical method in both rationalist and empiricist traditions.

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Catherine Wearing

Associate Professor of Philosophy

B.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard University

Researches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.

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