Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Karin Brown
Ph.D.,Graduate School and University Center, City University of
New York,
Ethics and Political Theory, Feminist Philosophy, Buddhist
Philosophy
S. D. Noam Cook
BA, MA, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., MIT
Philosophy of Technology, Applied Ethics, Applied Philosophy,
Japanese Philosophy
Peter J. Hadreas
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley
Phenomenology, Aristotle, Greek philosophy, Philosophy of Music,
Philosophy of Economics, Business Ethics, Merleau-Ponty, 20th
Century Continental Philosophy
Thomas W. Leddy
Ph.D., Boston University
Philosophy of Art, Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, Plato,
Nietzsche
Tommy L. Lott
Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles
Modern Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, African
American
Philosophy and Film/Media and Cultural Studies
Rita C. Manning , Chair
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Feminism
Bo Mou
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Philosophy
of Language, Metaphysics, Chinese Philosophy, East-West Comparative
Philosophy
Carlos Sanchez
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Phenomenology, Epistemology, Mexican Philosophy, Contemporary
American Philosophy
William H. Shaw
Ph.D., London School of Economics
Economics, Political and Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Law,
Philosophy of Science and Social Science, Marx
Janet Stemwedel
Ph.D. Philosophy, Stanford, Ph.D. Chemistry, Stanford
Philosophy of Science (esp. Chemical Theory and Practice),
Metaphysics (esp. Causation), other interests: Ethics of Science,
History of Science, Feminist Philosophy of Science
Richard L. Tieszen
Ph.D., Columbia University
Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mathematics,
Phenomenology
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Critical Thinking
Professors from other SJSU departments who teach in
Philosophy
Chánh Phan (Humanities)
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Political Philosophy and Asian Philosophies, The Chou I Ching, Tao
Te Ching.
Michael Katz (Secondary Education) Ph.D., Stanford
Philosophy of Education, Ethics
Adjunct Faculty
Paul Bashaw
M.A. San Jose State University
Epistemology, Ethics
Lisa Bernasconi
M.A. San Jose State University
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics
Janet Giddings
M.A. University of San Francisco
Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Ethics and Gambling
Douglas E. Henslee
Ph.D., University of Nebraska
Philosophy of Logic, Analytic Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic
James Lindahl
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Philosophy of Social Science, Cross-cultural criticism,
Philosophical Issues in Anthropology (ethics of representation and
translation theory)
Mike E. Newkirk
M.A., University of California - Riverside; Certified Management
Accountant (CMA)
Business Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
George J. Pinto
M.A., London School of Economics; M.A., San Jose State University;
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Business and Professional Ethics
William Quigley
J.D., Hastings College of Law
Philosophy of Law, Ethics
Richard E. Schubert
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein
Mary Ann T. Shukait
M.A., San Jose State University
Business and Professional Ethics, Leadership
Elizabeth Sonnier
Ph.D., Fordham, New York City's
Jesuit University
Philosophy of Science, Process Philosophy, Logic, and
French Phenomenology and Existentialism
Dan C. Williamson
Ph.D., University of California - Riverside
Continental Philosophies with a specialization in Foucault,
Postmodernism and Gender Studies, with an emphasis on ethics in
various registers and with corresponding interests in American
Studies
Phil Williamson
M.A., San Jose State
University
Phenomenology and Existentialism, Philosophy of Religion, and
Ancient Greek Philosophy
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