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Susan A. Stark

Professor of Philosophy

Hedge Hall, Room 307

sstark@bates.edu | 207-786-6147

empirical philosophy, feminist philosophy, implicit associations, inclusion, moral philosophy, moral psychology, moral theory

David R. Cummiskey

Professor of Philosophy

Hedge Hall, Room 306

dcummisk@bates.edu | 207-786-6286

biomedical ethics, Buddhist moral and political philosophy, clinical medical ethics, intercultural bioethics, intercultural ethics, Kantian ethics and consequentialism, moral philosophy, political philosophy, rawls and political liberalism

Paul E. Schofield

Associate Professor of Philosophy

pschofie@bates.edu

Environmental Ethics, ethics, History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Moral and Political), Philosophy of Film, Political Philosophy

Jonathan R. Cohen

Visiting Professor of Philosophy

jcohen4@bates.edu

Lauren M. Ashwell

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Hedge Hall, Room 305

lashwell@bates.edu | 207-786-6306

desire, dispositional properties, epistemology, fashion and feminism, feminist philosophy, introspective knowledge, metaphysics, objectification, semantics of gendered slurs

Lisa Landoe Hedrick

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 211

lhedrick@bates.edu | 207-786-6479

Mike Dacey

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Hedge Hall, Room 313

mdacey@bates.edu | 207-786-6310

animal minds, anthropomorphism, Associationism, Empiricism, explanation, learning, modeling, parsimony

Chris Agbonkhese

Visiting Lecturer in Digital and Computational Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 153

cagbonkhese@bates.edu | 207-786-8201

Tyler A. Harper

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 112

tharper@bates.edu | 207-786-6289

Laura C. Balladur

Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 409

lballadu@bates.edu | 207-786-8318

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, Democratic Republic of Congo, ecology of bodies in movement, French Cinema, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance, Translation Studies

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