Faculty
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Research Interests: ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of race, probability and decision theory
Ned Block
Research Interests: philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science
Paul Boghossian
Research Interests: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology
David Chalmers
Research Interests: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology
Sanford Diehl
Research Interests: ethics, moral psychology, and social and political philosophy
Cian Dorr
Research Interests: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of physics
Hartry Field
Research Interests: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics
Kit Fine
Research Interests: logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language
Laura Franklin-Hall
Research Interests: philosophy of biology
Miranda Fricker
Research Interests: moral philosophy, social epistemology
Jane Friedman
Research Interests: epistemology
Don Garrett
Research Interests: early modern philosophy
Robert Hopkins
Research Interests: aesthetics, philosophy of mind
Paul Horwich
Research Interests: philosophy of language, metaphysics, Wittgenstein, philosophy of science
Anja Jauernig
Research Interests: Kant, early modern philosophy, 19th and early 20th century German philosophy, history of philosophy of science, aesthetics, and animal ethics
Marko Malink
Research Interests: ancient philosophy, philosophical logic
Matthew Mandelkern
Research Interests: philosophy of language, semantics, philosophy of cognitive science
Tim Maudlin
Research Interests: foundations of physics, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science
Jessica Moss
Research Interests: ancient philosophy
John Richardson
Research Interests: 19-20th century continental philosophy; 19th-century American philosophy
Samuel Scheffler
Research Interests: moral and political philosophy
Sharon Street
Research Interests: ethics
Michael Strevens
Research Interests: philosophy of science, concepts, philosophical applications of cognitive science
Peter Unger
Research Interests: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics
Daniel Viehoff
Research Interests: political and legal philosophy, ethics, social philosophy
Emeritus Faculty
Richard Foley
Research Interests: epistemology
Frances Kamm
Research Interests: ethics
Béatrice Longuenesse
Research Interests: Kant, Hegel, modern philosophy, philosophy of mind
Thomas Nagel
Research Interests: philosophy of mind, political philosophy, ethics
William Ruddick
Research Interests: philosophy of science and medicine, professional and applied ethics.
Stephen Schiffer
Research Interests: philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology
David Velleman
Research Interests: ethics, moral psychology
Raziel Abelson
In Memoriam
Bersoff Faculty Fellows, Postdoctoral Lecturers, and Postdoctoral Research Associates
Philosophy Futures Postdoctoral Lecturer
Research Interests: social and political philosophy (including philosophy of race, class, gender, and anti-colonial thought), 19th and 20th century continental philosophy
Michelle Dyke
Research Interests: ethics, meta-ethics, epistemology
Bersoff Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind/cognitive science
Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: consciousness, philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind
Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ethics, social and political philosophy
Bersoff Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, metaphysics
Bersoff Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: epistemology, decision theory, ethics
Bersoff Faculty Fellow
Research Interests: formal epistemology, social epistemology, philosophy of probability, decision theory, Chinese philosophy
Associated & Affiliated Faculty
Jonathan Bain
Research Interests: philosophy of physics
Daniel Fogal
Research Interests: ethics, bioethics, epistemology, philosophy of language
S. Matthew Liao
Research Interests: ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, moral psychology, bioethics
Phillip Mitsis
Research Interests: ancient philosophy
Liam Murphy
Research Interests: legal philosophy, moral and political philosophy
Claudia Passos-Ferreira
Research Interests: philosophy of mind, moral psychology, ethics, bioethics
Jeff Sebo
Research Interests: moral, social, and political philosophy; bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics; ethics of activism, advocacy, and philanthropy.
Tamsin Shaw
Research Interests: political philosophy, history of political thought, Nietzsche
Hent de Vries
Research Interests: metaphysics, philosophy of religion, religion and law
Jerome C. Wakefield
Research Interests: conceptual foundations of clinical theory, philosophy of psychopathology, psychiatric epidemiology of depression, integrative clinical theory, Freud studies
Jeremy Waldron
Research Interests: philosophy of law, social and political philosophy
NYU Abu Dhabi
Kevin Coffey
Research Interests: philosophy of physics, philosophy of science
Taneli Kukkonen
Research Interests: classical Arabic philosophy, Aristotle, the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions
Sarah Paul
Research Interests: philosophy of action, philosophy of mind
Gabriel Rabin
Research Interests: philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic
Matthew Silverstein
Research Interests: ethics, philosophy of action
NYU Shanghai
Lu Teng
Research Interests: epistemology, philosophy of mind
Brad Weslake
Research Interests: philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind