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Ph.D. Programs             M.A. Programs

This page lists where philosophy professors work on pragmatism and/or where graduate courses in American philosophy are taught.
Links go to philosophy departments, but faculty of other departments working in related fields are included here.

More academics in departments other than Philosophy

Faculty at B.A. programs in Philosophy

Sources are the APA's Guide to Graduate Programs in Philosophy, the Directory of American Philosophers, and department websites.
This page covers 2006-2007. The 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05 pages are also available.
These lists are no doubt incomplete: Please inform me of corrections or additions.

Ph.D. programs

Baylor University

Elmer H. Duncan, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Cincinnati, 1962.

Stuart E. Rosenbaum, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Brown University, 1972.

Boston College

Richard M. Cobb-Stevens, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Paris, 1971.

Boston University

Victor Kestenbaum, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ed.D. Rutgers University, 1972.

Robert C. Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology. Ph.D. Yale University, 1963.

Claremont Graduate University

Robert K. Roth, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1967.

Columbia University

Michael C. Dorf, Professor of Law. J.D. Harvard University, 1990.

Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1974.

Isaac Levi, John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1957.

Nel Noddings, Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Education, Teachers College. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1973.

David Sidorsky, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1962.

Duke University

Owen Flanagan, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Boston University, 1977.

Emory University

James Gouinlock, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1969.

M. Frank Pajares, Professor of Education. Ph.D. University of Florida, 1993.

John Snarey, Professor of Human Development and Ethics. Ed.D., Harvard University, 1982.

Michael Sullivan. Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2000.

Fordham University

Judith A. Green, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1987.

Judith Jones, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Emory University, 1993.

Elizabeth M. Kraus, Professor Emerita of Philosophy. Ph.D. Fordham University, 1970.

Jonathan Levin, Associate Professor of English. Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1992.

Robert O'Brien, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1971.

Robert J. Roth, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Fordham University, 1961.

Georgetown University

William D. Blattner, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1989.

Jesse A. Mann. Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Catholic University of America, 1958.

Henry S. Richardson, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1986.

Harvard University

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1991.

Neil Gross, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 2002.

David C. Lamberth, Associate Professor of Theology. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1993.

Hilary Putnam, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1951.

Israel Scheffler, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1952.

Iliff School of Theology

Sheila G. Davaney, Professor of Theology. Th.D. Harvard University, 1980.

William D. Dean, Professor Emeritus of Constructive Theology. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1968.

Indiana University, Bloomington

Richard Bauman, Professor of Folklore and Anthropology. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1968.

Donald J. Cunningham, Professor of Education, Cognitive Science and Semiotic Studies. Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana, 1970.

Karen Hanson, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1980.

Frederick Schmitt, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1980.

Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Associate Professor of Semiotics and Information Science. Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington, 1976.

McMaster University

Barry G. Allen, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1986.

Gary B. Madison, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Docteur en Phil. Université de Paris.

Marquette University

Stanley M. Harrison, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Fordham, 1971.

Thomas L. Prendergast, Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. St. Louis University, 1968.

New School University

Richard J. Bernstein, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1958.

Northwestern University

Francesca Bordogna, Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1998.

Jürgen Habermas, Permanent Visiting Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Bonn University, 1954.

Axel Mueller, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Frankfurt.

Notre Dame

Cornelius F. Delaney, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. St. Louis University, 1968.

Gary Gutting, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. St. Louis University, 1968.

Eugene Halton, Professor of Sociology. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1979.

Alven M. Neiman, Professional Specialist in Philosophy. Ph.D. Notre Dame, 1978.

Pennsylvania State University

Vincent Colapietro, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Marquette University, 1983.

Joseph C. Flay, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1965.

Carl R. Hausman, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Northwestern, 1960.

Shannon W. Sullivan. Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies. Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1994.

Princeton University

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Associate Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1995.

Gilbert H. Harman, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1964.

Mark Johnston, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1984.

Jeffrey Stout, Professor of Religion. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1976. 

Cornel West, Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1980.

Purdue University

Leonard Harris, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Cornell University, 1974.

Floyd Merrell, Professor of Spanish and Semiotics. Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 1973.

Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Professor of Philosophy and American Studies. Ph.D. Loyola University, Chicago, 1973.

Rutgers University

Joseph J. Chambliss, Professor Emeritus of Education. Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1959.

James Livingston, Professor of History. Ph.D. Northern Illinois University, 1980.

Stephen P. Stich, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1968.

Bruce W. Wilshire, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. New York University, 1966.

Saint Louis University

Richard J. Blackwell, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Saint Louis University, 1954.

James F. Bohman, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Boston University, 1985.

Vincent C. Punzo, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Saint Louis University, 1963.

C. Griffin Trotter, Associate Professor of Ethics, Center for Health Care Ethics. Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1995.

Southern Illinois University

Thomas M. Alexander, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Emory University, 1984.

Douglas R. Anderson, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1984.

Randall E. Auxier, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Emory University, 1992.

Larry A. Hickman, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for Dewey Studies. Ph.D. University of Texas, 1971.

Lenore Langsdorf, Professor of Speech Communication. Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1977.

Kenneth Stikkers, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. De Paul University, 1982.

Stanford University

Richard Rorty, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature. Ph.D. Yale University, 1956.

State University of New York at Buffalo

Randall R. Dipert, Charles S. Peirce Professor of American Philosophy. Ph.D. Indiana University, 1978.

Peter H. Hare, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1965.

Paul Kurtz, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Chairman of Center for Inquiry Transnational in Buffalo. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1952.

Edward H. Madden, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1950.

John R. Shook, Research Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994.

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Harvey J. Cormier, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1992.

Lorenzo C. Simpson, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1978.

Victorino Tejera, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1956.

Temple University

Joseph Margolis, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1953.

Paul C. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1997.

Texas A&M University

Robert W. Burch, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Rice University, 1969.

John J. McDermott, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Fordham University, 1959.

Gregory F. Pappas, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Texas, 1990.

Tulane University

Radu J. Bogdan, Regular Guest Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1980.

Donald S. Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1961.

University of Alberta

Wesley E. Cooper, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Calgary, 1976.

Jennifer Welchman, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1990.

University of Calgary

Mark H. Migotti, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1991.

University of Chicago

James F. Conant, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1991.

Philip W. Jackson, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1955.

Hans Joas, Visiting Professor of Sociology and Committee on Social Thought. Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin, 1979.

Charles Larmore, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1978.

University of Hawaii

Chung-Ying Cheng, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1964.

Peter T. Manicas, Professor of Sociology. Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1963.

Steven Odin, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1980.

James E. Tiles, Professor of Philosophy. D.Phil. Oxford University, 1978.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Walter Feinberg, Professor of Philosophy of Education. Ph.D. Boston  University, 1966.

F. Wright Neely, Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1967.

Steven Wagner, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1978.

University of Miami

Susan Haack, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1972.

Risto Hilpinen, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Helsinki, 1969.

University of New Mexico

Russell Goodman, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1971.

University of Oregon

Mark L. Johnson, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1977.

John T. Lysaker, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1995.

Scott L. Pratt, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1995.

Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1970.

University of Ottawa

Paul D. Forster, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, 1989.

University of Pittsburgh

Robert B. Brandom, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1977.

Nicholas Rescher, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1951.

Universite du Quebec, Montreal (Ph.D. Program in Semiotics)

François Latraverse, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Peirce Edition Project at UQAM. Ph.D.

University of South Carolina

Tom Burke, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1992.

Edward C. Munn, Lecturer in Philosophy and Coordinator, Engineering Ethics Program. Ph.D. Emory University, 1996.

Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1967.

University of South Florida

John Peter Anton, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1954.

Charles B. Guignon, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of California , Berkeley, 1979.

Kwasi Wiredu, Professor of Philosophy. B.Phil. Oxford University, 1960.

University of Toronto

Jacqueline Brunning, Professor Emerita of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1981.

Marcel Danesi, Professor of Semiotics and Italian. Ph.D.

Joseph M. Heath, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Northwestern, 1995.

Cheryl J. Misak, Professor of Philosophy. D.Phil. Oxford University, 1988.

University of Washington

John F. Boler, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1960.

Arthur Fine, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1963.

Andrew Light, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, 1996.

Vanderbilt University

Victor Anderson, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1992.

Michael P. Hodges, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1967.

John Lachs, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1961.

Lucius T. Outlaw, Professor of Philosophy and Director of African American Studies. Ph.D. Boston College, 1972.

John J. Stuhr, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1976.

Robert B. Talisse, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. City University of New York, 2001.

Villanova University

Joseph Betz, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1973.

Washington University in St. Louis

Robert B. Barrett, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1961.

Roger F. Gibson, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Missouri, 1978.

Wayne State University

William D. Stine, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Harvard University, 1969.

Yale University

Jules L. Coleman, Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy. Ph.D. Rockefeller University, 1972.

Sun-joo Shin, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1991.

John E. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1948.

Kenneth Winkler, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Texas, 1977.

York University

Henry Jackman, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1996.

M.A. Programs

American University

Charley D. Hardwick, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Yale University, 1968.

Lucinda J. Peach, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Indiana University, 1995.

Cleveland State University

Joseph P. DeMarco, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1969.

Gonzaga University

Thomas M. Jeannot, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. St. Louis University, 1992.

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Arthur Burks, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1941.

Andre De Tienne, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Catholic University of Louvain, 1991.

Robert E. Frye, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Indiana University, 1956.

Nathan Houser, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Peirce Edition Project. Ph.D. University of Waterloo, 1985.

Christian J. W. Kloesel. Professor of English. Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1973.

Paul Nagy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Fordham University, 1968.

Cornelis de Waal, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Miami, 1997.

Kent State University

Frank X. Ryan, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Emory University, 1996.

Loyola Marymount University

Brad E. Stone, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Memphis, 2003.

Brian Treanor, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Ph.D. Boston College, 2001.

Oklahoma State University

Michael R. Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Florida State University, 1982.

Oregon State University

Sharyn Clough, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Simon Frazer University, 1997.

St. John's University

Kevin E. Kennedy, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Catholic University of America, 1990.

Texas Tech University

Kenneth L. Ketner, Charles Sanders Peirce Interdisciplinary Professor. Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1972.

Joseph M. Ransdell, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1966.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Stephen E. Braude, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, 1972.

University of Missouri, St. Louis

Brogaard, Berit. Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. SUNY at Buffalo, 2000.

University of Montana

Deni Elliott, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Practical Ethics Center. Ed.D. Harvard University, 1984.

University of Saskatchewan

Eric B. Dayton, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, 1973.

University of Southern Mississippi

Michael H. DeArmey, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. Tulane University, 1978.

University of Toledo

James Campbell, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1979.

Virginia Tech University

James W. Garrison, Professor of Education. Ph.D. Florida State University, 1981.

Rosa Mayorga, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Miami, 2002.

Joseph C. Pitt, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, 1972.