Faculty
Faculty in the Philosophy program include faculty appointed solely to the Graduate Center, as well as affiliated faculty who teach at the Graduate Center as well as another CUNY school. Our faculty are distinguished scholars, who are active in their communities and dedicated to their students and their research.
Our Faculty

Linda Martín Alcoff
Professor
- Philosophy
Professor
- Women's Studies

Sergei Artemov
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy
Distinguished Professor
- Computer Science
Distinguished Professor
- Mathematics

Jeffrey Blustein
Professor
- Philosophy

Michael Brownstein
Associate Professor
- Philosophy

Noël Carroll
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy
Distinguished Professor
- Film Studies

Samir Chopra
Faculty
- Philosophy

Alberto Cordero
Faculty
- Philosophy

Omar Dahbour
Faculty
- Philosophy

Michael Devitt
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy

Miranda Fricker
Professor
- Philosophy

Justin Garson
Professor
- Philosophy

Jonathan Gilmore
Associate Professor and MA Program Director
- Philosophy

Carol Gould
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

John D. Greenwood
Deputy Executive Officer and Professor
- Philosophy
Professor
- Psychology

Stephen Grover
Faculty
- Philosophy

Jonathan Jacobs
Professor
- Philosophy
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Elliott Jurist
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Philosophy

Serene Khader
Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture and Associate Professor
- Philosophy
Associate Professor
- Women's Studies

Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Presidential Professor
- Philosophy

Frank Kirkland
Faculty
- Philosophy

Saul Kripke
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy

Douglas Lackey
Faculty
- Philosophy

Eric Mandelbaum
Associate Professor
- Philosophy

Barbara Gail Montero
Faculty
- Philosophy

Stephen Neale
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics

Angelica Nuzzo
Professor
- Philosophy

Gary Ostertag
Affiliated Associate Professor
- Philosophy

Romina Padro
Visiting Assistant Professor
- Philosophy

David Papineau
Visiting Presidential Professor
- Philosophy

Nickolas Pappas
Executive Officer and Professor
- Philosophy

Rohit Parikh
Distinguished Professor
- Mathematics
Distinguished Professor
- Computer Science
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy

Massimo Pigliucci
Professor
- Philosophy

Gerald Press
Faculty
- Philosophy

Graham Priest
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy

Jesse Prinz
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy

Rosamond Rhodes
Faculty
- Philosophy

David Rosenthal
Professor
- Philosophy
Professor
- Linguistics
Professor Emeritus
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Steven Ross
Faculty
- Philosophy

Hagop Sarkissian
Associate Professor
- Philosophy

Sandra Shapshay
Faculty
- Philosophy

Peter Simpson
Professor
- Classics
Professor
- Philosophy
Professor
- Medieval Studies

Justin Steinberg
Associate Professor
- Philosophy
Associate Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies

Thomas Teufel
Faculty
- Philosophy

Saam Trivedi
Professor
- Philosophy

Iakovos Vasiliou
Professor
- Philosophy

Catherine Wilson
Visiting Presidential Professor
- Philosophy
Recent Faculty News
Oct 22, 2021
TWO GRADUATE CENTER PHILOSOPHY PROFESSORS NAMED EDITORS OF LEADING AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF ART JOURNAL
By Bonnie Eissner For the next five years, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (JAAC), published by Oxford University Press, considered the leading aesthetics...
- Faculty News
Sep 21, 2021
IN MEMORIAM: DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR CHARLES W. MILLS, A PHILOSOPHER WHO CHANGED THE CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE IN THE U.S.
The Graduate Center community is immensely saddened by the passing of Distinguished Professor Charles W. Mills (Philosophy) who died on September 20, 2021, at age...
- Faculty News
- In Memoriam
Apr 21, 2021
Derek Chauvin Convicted: Graduate Center Scholars Respond
Graduate Center scholars in philosophy, psychology, and criminal justice comment on the rare verdict and what it means for their work and for our country.
- Faculty News
Feb 10, 2021
BIG THINKERS: LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF, CHARLES W. MILLS, AND OTHER GC PROFESSORS NAMED AMONG MOST INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHERS
"In different ways, all the CUNY professors on this list have opened up their fields," says Professor Nickolas Pappas, executive officer of The Graduate Center’s Philosophy program.
- Faculty News