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October 2, 2025

The way back Bates machine

Staff at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library love giving walking tours of the campus. They function like walking Bates encyclopedias, dropping tidbits about everything from which building was the first one on Frye Street to which are the oldest trees on campus.

October 2, 2025

‘Rising Star’ Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10 is on …

Marshall Hatch ’10 received a lot of texts on Sept. 30. Not surprising, given that at the crack of dawn, Time magazine announced its TIME 100 NEXT, naming him one of “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars” for 2025.

October 2, 2025

Meet new Bates faculty from physics and astronomy, classical …

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News will introduce them in groups over this semester.

Philosophy

Philosophy Faculty

Lauren M. Ashwell

Professor of Philosophy

Frank Chessa Ph.D.

Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy

Jonathan R. Cohen

Visiting Professor of Philosophy

David R. Cummiskey

Professor of Philosophy

Mike Dacey

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Mark B. Okrent

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Paul E. Schofield

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Susan A. Stark

Professor of Philosophy

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