University of Houston Philosophy Professors

William H. Austin, Professor Emeritus

B.A., Wesleyan University; B.D. Yale University; Ph. D., Yale University

Philosophy of Religion, Inductive Logic and Deceision Theory

email: waustin410@comcast.net

Gregory A. Brown, Professor

B.A. University of Hawaii; M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland

History of Early Modern Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science

Office: 509 Agnes Arnold Hall / Phone: 713.743.3202

G. Brown's Home Page

email: gbrown@uh.edu

Josh Brown, Assistant Professor

B.A. Carleton College (Chemistry); PhD (Philosophy), University of Michigan (expected 2008)

Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

Office: 506 - Agnes Arnold Hall / Phone 713.743.3079

email: jdbrown3@mail.uh.edu

Cynthia A. Freeland, Professor and Departmental Chair

B.A., Michigan State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy

Office: 511 Agnes Arnold Hall / Phone: 713.743.3206

C. Freeland's Home Page

email: cfreeland@uh.edu

James W. Garson, Professor

B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Logic, Modal Logic, Formal Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mathematics

Office: 502 Agnes Arnold Hall / Phone: 713.743.3205

J. Garson's Home Page

e-mail: jgarson@uh.edu

Helen Hattab, Assistant Professor

B.A., Trenton State College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Early Modern Philosophy, Renaissance Philosophy, Renaissance and Early Modern Science, Medieval Philosophy

e-mail: hhattab@uh.edu

Office: 504-AH / Phone: 713.743.4147

Anne Jaap Jacobson, Professor

B.A., University of California at Berkeley; B.Phil., D.Phil., Oxford University

Philosophy of Mind, History of Modern Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology

Office: 510 Agnes Arnold Hall / Phone: 713.743.3204

A. Jacobson's Home Page

e-mail: ajjacobson@uh.edu

Bredo C. Johnsen, Professor

B.A., Wayne State University; Ph.D., Harvard University

Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

Office: 501 Agnes Arnold Hall / Phone 713.743.3208

e-mail: bredoj@yahoo.com

William N. Nelson, Professor

B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Cornell University

Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

Office: 501 Agnes Arnold Hall / Phone 713.743.3203

W. Nelson's Home Page

e-mail: wnelson@uh.edu

David K. Phillips, Associate Professor

B.A., Oxford; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Ethics, History of Ethics, Philosophy of Economics

Office: 514 Agnes Arnold Hall / Phone 713.743.3209

e-mail: dphillips@uh.edu

Tamler Sommers, Assistant Professor

B. A. (English), University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. (Philosophy), Duke University

Ethics, Moral Psychology, Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Office: 504 - AH / Phone 713.743.3032

e-mail: tssommer@uh.edu

Josh Weisberg, Assistant Professor

B.A., NYU
M.A., Ph.D., City University of New York

Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science

Office: 515 - AH / Phone 713.743.3200

J. Weisberg's Home Page

email: jweisberg@uh.edu

M. G. Yoes, Professor Emeritus

B.A., M.A., Baylor University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Language

email: mgyoes@comcast.net