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Sam Liao, Associate ProfessorProfessor 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. |
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Sara Protasi, Associate ProfessorProfessor 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. |
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Justin Tiehen, ProfessorProfessor 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 philosophy of mind and metaphysics, with a special focus on mental causation, physicalism, and the normativity of the mental. |
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Ariela Tubert, Professor and ChairProfessor 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 also has interests in social and legal philosophy, Existentialism, Latin American and Latinx Philosophy, and ethical issues in artificial intelligence and the environment. |
Emeriti Faculty |
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Professor William BeardsleyProfessor 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. |
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Professor Douglas CannonProfessor 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. |
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Professor Paul LoebProfessor 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. |
Staff |
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Madison Howard, Administrative Support Coordinatormhoward@pugetsound.edu |
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