Philosophy
Max Backderf
M.A.
Philosophy
Email: mbackder@uoregon.edu
Office: 11B Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00-3:00pm
Research Interests: Pragmatism, Philosophy of Science, Feminist Epistemology
Abbas Bagwala
PhD
GE and Promising Scholar
Philosophy
Email: abagwala@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: 1000 - 1200 on Fridays
Research Interests: philosophy of machine learning, philosophy of science, epistemology, political philosophy, Marxist thought, pragmatism
Melissa Bowers
Associate Director, Academic Support
Classics, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: bowersm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1506
Office: 124 PLC
Office Hours: (if needed, please contact me via email for an appointment, walk-ins are not guaranteed) Mon. -Wed. 8:30 a.m.-Noon and 1- 5 p.m. (118 PLC) 541.346.1506, Thursday and Friday remote 8am-5pm
Steven Brence
Distinguished Teaching Professor & Pre-Law Advisor
Director of Ethics Minor
Philosophy
Email: brences@uoregon.edu
Office: 250D Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Wednesdays from 3-5 pm or by Appointment.
Research Interests: Social/Political, Ethics, Philosophy of Film, Pragmatism, 19th and 20th Century German
Audrey Brown
PhD
GE
Philosophy
Email: asaltar2@uoregon.edu
Office: 11A Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Thursdays from 12-3 pm
Research Interests: History of philosophy, American philosophy, Religious Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy
Irie Browning
Philosophy Graduate Student
Philosophy
Email: irieb@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12
Research Interests: Virtue ethics, American Pragmatism (especially John Dewey), Philosophy of Education
Brooke Burns
Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: bburns8@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Research Interests: Feminist philosophy, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Genealogy (esp. Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams)
Gonzalo Bustamante-Moya
Ph.D. & GE
Managing Editor Hypatia Reviews Online | Undergraduate Advisor
Philosophy
Email: gonzalob@uoregon.edu
Office: Susan Campbell Hall Room 11B
Office Hours: Tuesdays from 11:30-13:30 at 11B Susan Campbell Hall or by appointment
Research Interests: Political and Social Philosophy (esp. critiques of capitalism), Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Early Analytic Philosophy (Wittgenstein), German Idealism, Critical Theory