Philosophy
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
Brock Baines
ABD Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: bbaines@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Kant; Phenomenology; Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Elizabeth F. Balskus
Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: balskus@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: 20th Century and Contemporary European Philosophy (particularly the works of Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin), Decolonial Philosophy, Latin American Thought, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Race and Gender, Trauma Studies
Cara E. Bates
Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: cbates@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, Identity, Philosophy of Time, American Pragmatist Philosophy
Krysta Best
M.A.
GE for Environmental Studies
Philosophy
Email: kbest@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5003
Office: 241 Columbia Hall
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Environmental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Beauvoir, Philosophy of Education
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
Senior Instructor of Philosophy & Pre-Law Advisor
Undergraduate Studies Committee
Philosophy
Email: brences@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5553
Office: 250D Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Tuesdays from 3-5 pm or by Appointment. For PHIL 225 only: Wednesdays from 2-3:50 pm
Research Interests: Social/Political, Ethics, Philosophy of Film, Pragmatism, 19th and 20th Century German
Benjamin Brewer
M.A.
Philosophy
Email: bbrewer@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Post-Kantian Continental thought, history of philosophy (esp. late modern and medieval), aesthetics (esp. literature), the body, philosophical style and writing
Nicolas Brooks
M.A.
Philosophy
Email: nbrooks2@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy, 20th Century French and German Philosophy, phenomenology
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
Megan M. Burke
ABD Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: mburke2@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Feminist Philosophy, Existential Phenomenology, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Social-Political Philosophy
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)
Larry Busk
ABD Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: lbusk@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Arendt, French Phenomenology, and Critical Theory)
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