Philosophy Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Jeffrey B. Downard, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., Miami University; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina 1996)

Ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of law

NAU 1996

Christopher Griffin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

(B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona 1999)

Moral, social, and political philosophy

NAU 1999

Peter Kosso, Ph.D., Professor

(B.S., University of Nevada–Reno; M.S., Montana State University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota 1986)

Philosophy of science, epistemology

NAU 1990

Michael E. Malone, Ph.D., Professor, Department Chair

(B.F.A., B.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Texas 1972)

Philosophy of mind, Wittgenstein, philosophy of science

NAU 1972

Kym A. Maclaren, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

(B.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University 2004)

Continental philosophy, nineteenth-century philosophy, Merleau-Ponty

NAU 2003

George Rudebusch, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., Carroll College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison 1982)

Ancient philosophy, ethics

NAU 1988

Dennis P. Rusche, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Roosevelt University; Ph.D., University of Iowa 1975)

American philosophy, pragmatism, environmental ethics

NAU 1971

David M. Sherry, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., University of Montana; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School 1982)

History of philosophy, logic, philosophy of mathematics

NAU 1981

Faculty Emeriti

William F. Nietmann, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., University of the Pacific; Th.M., School of Theology at Claremont; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University 1968)

Philosophy of religion, continental philosophy

NAU 1966 (retired 2003)