People

Michael Alvarez
Michael Alvarez
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • History of Philosophy
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Political Philosophy
m_alvarez@umail.ucsb.edu
C. Anthony Anderson
C. Anthony Anderson
  • Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
caanders@philosophy.ucsb.edu
http://www.philosophy.ucsb.edu/websites/anderson/
Jeff Bagwell
Jeff Bagwell
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Logic
  • Epistemology
jbagwell@ucsb.edu
  • SH 5717
Marian Baker
Marian Baker
  • Academic Personnel Coordinator

Duties - Philosophy Department

  • Personnel policy and procedures
  • Faculty recruitment and appointments
  • Ladder faculty merits, promotions, career steps, retentions, appraisals
  • Non-Senate faculty re-appointments, excellence reviews, merits
  • Payroll, additional compensation, and contracts
  • Sabbatical and other leaves
  • Donor acknowledgment
  • Faculty email list administrator
  • Visiting scholars
  • New faculty email, UCSBNetID, orientation
mbaker@hfa.ucsb.edu
  • 805-893-7151
  • SH 3431B
Damien Barnes
Damien Barnes
  • Graduate Student in Residence
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Action Theory

Areas of Competence

  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Medieval Philosophy
  • Buddhist Philosophy
dbb@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5720
Thomas Barrett
Thomas Barrett
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Physics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Logic
tbarrett@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5708
personal website
Arnel Blake Batoon
Arnel Blake Batoon
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Language, Perception, and Science
  • History of Philosophy
arnelblake_batoon@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 2432 W
Christopher Britton
Christopher Britton
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science
christopherjbritton@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5717
Steven Canet
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Physics
  • Logic
shcanet@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5631
Jon Charry
Jon Charry
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Physics
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
jcharry@ucsb.edu
Christopher Cloos
Christopher Cloos
  • Lecturer

Not in residence Winter 2020

Research Interests

  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Social and Political Philosophy
cloos@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5713
The Philosophical Life
Thainá Coltro Demartini
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
thaina@umail.ucsb.edu
Tom Costigan
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Logic
  • Language
  • Epistemology
tcostigan@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5706
Donald W. Crawford
  • Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Aesthetics
  • 18th-Century Philosophy
Francis W. Dauer
  • Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Epistemology
  • Hume
  • Philosophical Psychology
Morgan Davies
Morgan Davies
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Physics
morgandavies@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5702
Kyle Dickey
Kyle Dickey
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Language and Mind
  • Metaphysics
  • Logic
kyledickey@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5719
KyleDickey.xyz
Janet Douglas
  • Instructional Program Assistant

Duties

  • Textbook and desk copy orders
  • Office hours listings
  • Keys
  • Mail boxes
  • Office supplies, business cards
  • Visitor parking arrangements
  • Teaching evaluations
  • Room and media equipment reservations
  • Technical assistance (e.g. copiers, printers)
  • Door codes
janetdouglas@hfa.ucsb.edu
  • 893-7489
  • Front desk SH 3431
Keith Dyck
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • History of Philosophy
keithdyck@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5631
E. Sonny Elizondo
E. Sonny Elizondo
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Kant
eselizondo@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5715
personal website
Salvador Escalante Díaz Barreiro
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Ancient Philosophy

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of action

salvad@umail.ucsb.edu
Kevin Falvey
Kevin Falvey
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Language
falvey@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5709
Pierre Fasula
Pierre Fasula
  • Lecturer

Not in residence Winter 2020

Research Interests

  • Ethics
  • Social and Political Philosophy 
  • Philosophy of Language and Literature
pfasula@religion.ucsb.edu
  • Phelps 3332
https://ucsb.academia.edu/FasulaPierre
Patricio A. Fernandez
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Action
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Economics. 
pfernandez@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5718
J. William Forgie
J. William Forgie
  • Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Epistemology
  • Wittgenstein
forgie@philosophy.ucsb.edu
Wade Yang Fu
Wade Yang Fu
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Depiction
  • Mathematical Logic 
yangfu@ucsb.edu
Kerong Gao
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Ancient Philosophy

Ethics

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of action

keronggao@ucsb.edu
Celine Geday
Celine Geday
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Gender and Feminist Philosophy
  • Moral Philosophy
celinegeday@umail.ucsb.edu
Quentin Gee
Quentin Gee
  • Lecturer in Philosophy and Environmental Studies

Not in residence Winter 2020

Research Interests

  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Applied Ethics
  • Metaphysics
  • Environmental Studies (energy, critical & quantitative thinking, climate change)
qgee@es.ucsb.edu
  • Bren Hall, Room 4005
Katherina Gontaryuk
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Philosophy of Mathematics

Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Language

Logic
kgontaryuk@ucsb.edu
Evan Green
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Political Philosophy
  • Classical Philosophy
egreen@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5631
Amanda Greene
  • Associate Professor (joining UCSB Fall 2022)

Political and legal philosophy

Ethics

Ancient philosophy

personal website
Jason Hanschmann
Jason Hanschmann
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Language
jlh00@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5717
Matthew Hanser
  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Department Co-Chair
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Action
  • Philosophy of Law
hanser@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5724
Colton Heiberg
Colton Heiberg
  • Graduate Student in Residence
heiberg@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5706
Thomas Holden
  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Vice Chair
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies

  • Modern Philosophy

tholden@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • 805-893-5452
  • South Hall 5710
Steven Humphrey
Steven Humphrey
  • Adjunct Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Science
steven_humphrey@msn.com
  • South Hall 5713
Gregory Jarrett
  • Lecturer

Research Interests

  • Moral, Legal & Political philosophy
  • Environmental & Biomedical ethics
  • Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science
gregory.jarrett@ucsb.edu
  • HSSB 3061
Ryan Kelley
Ryan Kelley
  • Financial and Budget Coordinator
ryankelley@hfa.ucsb.edu
  • (805)893-3475
  • 3431G South Hall
Sangsu Kim
Sangsu Kim
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Normative Ethics
  • Military Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Feminism
sangsu@ucsb.edu
  • SH 5721
David King
David King
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science
  • Ethics
daking@ucsb.edu
  • SH 5721
Stanley B. Klein
  • Professor of Psychology

Research Interests

  • Social Cognition
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Neuropsychology and Philosophy
klein@psych.ucsb.edu
Dan Korman
Dan Korman
  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Language

 

dkorman@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5716
personal website
Blake Kyler
Blake Kyler
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Kantian Ethics
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Early Modern/Modern Philosophy
  • Epistemology
blakekyler@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5702
Rick Lamb
Rick Lamb
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Epistemology
  • Metaethics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Metaphysics
rclamb@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5720
Alex LeBrun
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Language
lebrun@ucsb.edu
  • SH 5721
alexlebrun.net
Yuchen Li
Yuchen Li
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Political Philosophy
  • Social Ontology
  • Ethics
  • Metaethics
yuchenli@ucsb.edu
Samantha Little
  • Staff Undergraduate Advisor

Duties

  • Undergraduate student major, minor, and program advising
  • Undergraduate student petitions for major requirements
  • Approval codes
  • University and department undergrad awards
  • Course scheduling and wait-lists
  • Seminar room scheduling (COURSES only)
  • Undergrad listserv

Make an advising appointment here!

slittle@hfa.ucsb.edu
  • 805-893-3776
  • SH 3432C
Mayra Magana
  • SASC Director

Duties

  • All management functions related to the operations of administrative support and services of the SASC (Student Services and Academic Services units) provided to South Hall HFA departments and programs in the areas of Academic Personnel, Financial/Budget, Student Services, Contract and Grant administration, Purchasing, IT, Space, Development and Alumni Relations, Safety, Policy and Procedures, etc.

mmagana@hfa.ucsb.edu
  • 805-893-3237
  • SH 3431H
Tim Mainwaring
Tim Mainwaring
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of Science
tmainwaring@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5702
Rene Marchington
Rene Marchington
  • Staff Graduate Advisor

Duties

  • Graduate student recruitment and admissions
  • Graduate student progress checks
  • Graduate student advising
  • TA coordinator: recruitment, payroll, fee remissions
  • Graduate committee consultant
  • Student awards
  • Graduate stipends
  • Block grant/graduate funding support
  • Graduate email list administrator
rmarchington@ucsb.edu
  • (805)893-7490
  • SH 3432E
Elinor Mason
  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Moral philosophy (especially moral responsibility and ethics)
  • Feminism
elinormason@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5711
personal website
Richard McKirahan
Richard McKirahan
  • Visiting Professor

Research Interests

  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Science and Mathematics
  • Greek Intellectual History
richard.mckirahan@pomona.edu
  • SH 5722
Christopher McMahon
Christopher McMahon
  • Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
  • Political and Social Philosophy
  • Moral Philosophy
cmcmahon@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5711
David Mokriski
  • Lecturer

Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics

dmokriski@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 2432W
personal website
Jordan Neidlinger
Jordan Neidlinger
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaethics
  • Logic
jordanneidlinger@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5719
Andrew Norris
  • Associate Professor of Political Science

Research Interests

  • Political Philosophy
anorris@polsci.ucsb.edu
Patrick Norton
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Perception
  • Epistemology
  • History of Philosophy
  • History and Philosophy of Science
patricknorton@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5706
Charles Perkins
Charles Perkins
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Logic/Philosophy of Math
  • Metaphysics
  • History of Analytic Philosophy
perkins@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5721
Seán Pierce
Seán Pierce
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Meta-ontology
  • Metaphysics
  • Ethics
  • Applied Ethics
spierce@ucsb.edu
  • SH 5721
Reid Wolfe Randall
Reid Wolfe Randall
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Ancient Philosophy
rwrandall@ucsb.edu
Teresa Robertson Ishii
  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics
teresa@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5714
Nathan Salmón
Nathan Salmon
  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Logic
  • Metaphysics
nsalmon@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5712
Paul So
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Metaethics
  • Normative Ethics
  • Philosophy of Minds 

 

paulso@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5631
Edward Song
Edward Song
  • Lecturer

Not in residence Spring 2019

Research Interests

  • Moral and Political Philosophy
edwardsong@westmont.edu
Martin Stokes
Martin Stokes
  • SASC Manager
  • Student Services Unit

Duties

  • Managerial oversight of Student Services Unit of the SASC
  • Student services policy and procedures
  • Curriculum planning and course scheduling
  • TA/Associate/Reader appointments and payroll
  • Student services staff supervisor
mstokes@hfa.ucsb.edu
  • 893-2708
  • SH 3432G
Daniel Story
  • Alumni

Research Interests

  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Action Theory
  • Metaphysics
danielstory@ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5720
http://danielstory.net
Flavio Tisi
Flavio Tisi
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of language
  • Social ontology
flaviotisi@umail.ucsb.edu
Voula Tsouna
  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Department Co-Chair
  • Ancient Philosophy
vtsouna@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • 805-893-3990
  • South Hall 5722
Vacant Vacant
  • Manager
  • SASC (Financial & Academic Personnel Services Unit)

Duties

  • Managerial oversight of Academic Services Unit of the SASC
  • Financial and academic personnel policy and procedures
  • Academic appointments and payroll
  • Financial/academic personnel staff supervisor
  • 805-893-3864
  • SH 3431C
Jon Winterbottom
Jon Winterbottom
  • Lecturer

Not in residence Winter 2020

Research Interests

  • Ethics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Law 
jon.winterbottom@ucsb.edu
Sam Zahn
  • Graduate Student in Residence

Research Interests

  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Environmental Philosophy
szahn@ucsb.edu
  • SH 5720
http://www.samzahn.com
Aaron Zimmerman
Aaron Zimmerman
  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Graduate Program Admissions Officer
  • Diversity Officer
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Epistemology
  • Action Theory
  • Moral Psychology
azimmerman@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5707
personal website
Stephen Zylstra
  • Lecturer

Research Interests

  • Medieval Philosophy
  • Early Modern Philosophy
szylstra@philosophy.ucsb.edu
  • South Hall 5713