Department of Philosophy
The University of Houston
513 Agnes Arnold Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3004
Phone: 713-743-3010
Fax: 713-743-5162
People
Faculty | Instructors and Affiliate Faculty | Emeritus Faculty | Staff
Faculty
Cynthia A. Freeland, Professor and Chair
(713) 743-3206
cfreeland@uh.edu
5011 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., Michigan State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
Gregory A. Brown, Professor
(713) 743-3202
gbrown@uh.edu
509 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A. University of Hawaii
M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland
History of Early Modern Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science
Cameron Buckner, Visiting Assistant Professor
(713) 743-3010
cjbuckner@uh.edu
506 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., B.S. Texas Tech University
Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Digital Humanities
James W. Garson, Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
(713) 743-3205
jgarson@uh.edu
502 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., Haverford College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Logic, Modal Logic, Formal Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mathematics
Helen Hattab, Associate Professor
(713) 743-4147
hhattab@uh.edu
504 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., Trenton State College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Early Modern Philosophy, Renaissance Philosophy, Renaissance and Early Modern Science, Medieval Philosophy
Anne Jaap Jacobson, Professor
(713) 743-3204
ajjacobson@uh.edu
510 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., University of California at Berkeley
B.Phil., D.Phil., Oxford University
Philosophy of Mind, History of Modern Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology
Bredo C. Johnsen, Professor
Undergraduate Adviser
(713) 743-3208
bredoj@yahoo.com
501 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., Wayne State University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
Christy Mag Uidhir, Assistant Professor
(713) 743-4458
cmaguidhir@gmail.com
513 Agnes Arnold Hall
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
William N. Nelson, Professor
(713) 743-3203
wnelson@uh.edu
501 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., Harvard University
Ph.D., Cornell University
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
David K. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty and Research for CLASS
(713) 743-3209
dphillips@uh.edu
504 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., Oxford
M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Ethics, History of Ethics
Website
Tamler Sommers, Associate Professor
(713) 743-3032
tssommers@uh.edu
504 Agnes Arnold Hall
B. A. (English), University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. (Philosophy), Duke University
Ethics, Moral Psychology, Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Josh Weisberg, Assistant Professor
(713) 743-3200
jweisberg@uh.edu
515 Agnes Arnold Hall
B.A., New York University
M.A., Ph.D., City University of New York
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science
Instructors and Affiliate Faculty
Edwin Aiman, Instructor
654 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3632
eaiman@uh.edu
Curtis Haaga, Instructor
654 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3632
chaaga@uh.edu
Iain Morrison, Instructional Assistant Professor (Honors College)
204c M.D. Anderson Memorial Library
(713) 743- 9022
imorrison@uh.edu
Emeritus Faculty
- 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
waustin410@comcast.net - M. G. Yoes, Professor Emeritus
B.A., M.A., Baylor University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Language
mgyoes@comcast.net
Staff
Jacklyn Vela, Academic Advisor
518 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-4145
jdvela2@uh.edu