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Research

The Saint Louis University philosophy department is dedicated to fostering opportunities for faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and interested members of the public to engage together in philosophical discussion and to pursue the life of the mind. To these ends, the SLU department sponsors various conferences and speakers, publishes the scholarly journal Res Philosophica, and hosts a number of reading groups.

The faculty within the SLU Department of Philosophy are accomplished scholars whose research encompasses many areas of philosophical thought. The following is a listing of the faculty by areas of teaching and research interest.

Action Theory

(Agency, Free Will, Moral Responsibility)

  • Jonathan Jacobs, Ph.D.
  • Can Löwe, Ph.D.
  • Scott Ragland, Ph.D.
  • Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.

Ancient Philosophy

  • Scott Berman, Ph.D.
  • Can Löwe, Ph.D.
  • Anna Marmodoro, Ph.D.

Continental Philosophy

  • Gregory Beabout, Ph.D.
  • Jeffrey P. Bishop, Ph.D.
  • William Rehg, S.J., Ph.D.

Epistemology and Social Epistemology

  • Helen De Cruz, Ph.D.
  • Elizabeth Jackson, Ph.D.
  • William Rehg, S.J., Ph.D.
  • Joe Salerno, Ph.D.
  • Kent Staley, Ph.D.

Ethics

  • Gregory Beabout, Ph.D.
  • Jeffrey P. Bishop, Ph.D.
  • Helen De Cruz, Ph.D.
  • Dan Haybron, Ph.D.
  • Pedro McDade, S.J., Ph.D.
  • William Rehg, S.J., Ph.D.
  • Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.
  • Theodore Vitali, C.P., Ph.D.

Medieval Philosophy

  • Susan Brower-Toland, Ph.D.
  • Can Löwe, Ph.D.
  • Anna Marmodoro, Ph.D.
  • John Peck, S.J., Ph.D.
  • Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.

Metaphysics

  • Scott Berman, Ph.D.
  • Susan Brower-Toland, Ph.D.
  • Jonathan Jacobs, Ph.D.
  • Anna Marmodoro, Ph.D.
  • John Peck, S.J., Ph.D.
  • Joe Salerno, Ph.D.
  • Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.
  • Theodore Vitali, C.P., Ph.D.

Modern Philosophy

  • Scott Ragland, Ph.D.

Philosophy of Mind

  • Susan Brower-Toland, Ph.D.
  • Elizabeth Jackson, Ph.D.
  • Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.

Philosophy of Religion

  • Gregory Beabout, Ph.D.
  • Jeffrey P. Bishop, Ph.D.
  • Susan Brower-Toland, Ph.D.
  • Helen De Cruz, Ph.D.
  • Elizabeth Jackson, Ph.D.
  • Jonathan Jacobs, Ph.D.
  • Anna Marmodoro, Ph.D.
  • Scott Ragland, Ph.D.
  • Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.
  • Theodore Vitali, S.J., Ph.D.

Philosophy of Science

(Including Philosophy of Social Sciences as well as Science and Technology)

  • Jeffrey P. Bishop, Ph.D.
  • Helen De Cruz, Ph.D.
  • Pedro McDade, S.J., Ph.D.
  • William Rehg, S.J., Ph.D.
  • Kent Staley, Ph.D.

Social and Political Philosophy

  • Gregory Beabout, Ph.D.
  • Jeffrey P. Bishop, Ph.D.
  • Pedro McDade, S.J., Ph.D.
  • William Rehg, S.J., Ph.D.