Philosophy Department Faculty & Staff

Faculty
	Professor William Beardsley Professor Beardsley received his Bachelor's degree from The Johns Hopkins University and his Master's and PhD degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of interest are in early modern philosophy, 19th century philosophy, and philosophy of mind. wbeardsley@pugetsound.edu More Information
	Professor Sam Liao Professor Liao received his Bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and his Master's and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan. His areas of interest include etiquette, race, decolonization, Mozi, punk rock, concepts, testimony, coffee, public philosophy, intuition, wisdom of crowds, and social structures of academia. sliao@pugetsound.edu More Information
	Professor Sara Protasi Professor Protasi received her Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Università di Roma La Sapienza, a PhD in Philosophy from Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, and a PhD in Philosophy, from Yale University. Her research is in moral psychology and ethics broadly construed. She is particularly interested in the emotions, their anatomy and role in ethics, and also has research interests in the history of philosophy and aesthetics. sprotasi@pugetsound.edu More Information
	Professor Justin Tiehen (Chair) Professor Tiehen received his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, with a special focus of mental causation, physicalism, and the normativity of the mental. jtiehen@pugetsound.edu More Information
	Professor Ariela Tubert Professor Tubert received her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Philosophy from New York University and her Master's and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research is in the areas of moral philosophy and action theory. She is primarily concerned with the connection between accounts of agency and free will and issues in meta-ethics and practical reason. atubert@pugetsound.edu More Information
Emeriti Faculty
	Professor Douglas Cannon Professor Cannon received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his PhD degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His areas of interest include logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. He taught at Puget Sound from 1986 until 2016. dcannon@pugetsound.edu More Information
	Professor Paul Loeb Professor Loeb received his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Nietzsche, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Film, and Posthumanism. He taught at Puget Sound from 1991 until 2015. loeb@pugetsound.edu More Information
Staff
	Chris Vernon, Administrative Assistant cvernon@pugetsound.edu
	Colleen Hanson '19, Student Support Staff Colleen is a junior from Denver, Colorado pursuing studies in Philosophy and Bioethics. Her areas of interest within philosophy are moral philosophy and applied ethics. On campus, Colleen is a writer for Spoon University and is passionate about being a leader within her Greek organization.