Front row, from left: Mitch Avila, Emily S. Lee, Matthew Calarco, Shari Neller Starrett and Jeeloo Liu. Back row, from left: Heather D. Battaly, Amy Coplan, John K. Davis and Ryan Nichols. Photo by Mimi Ko Cruz

Meet the Philosophers

Cal State Fullerton's Professors of Philosophy Excel in Myriad Specialties

May 4, 2010

Cal State Fullerton's Department of Philosophy includes nine professors. They are:

• Mitch Avila, department chair and associate professor, who specializes in political liberalism, international human rights, feminist political theory and aesthetics (especially philosophy of film and photography)
• Heather D. Battaly, associate professor who specializes in epistemology, ethics and virtue theory
• Matthew Calarco, assistant professor who specializes in contemporary continental philosophy and animal and environmental philosophy
• Amy Coplan, assistant professor who specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, moral psychology and aesthetics (especially philosophy of film)
• John K. Davis, assistant professor who specializes in bioethics, philosophy of law and ethical theory
• Emily S. Lee, assistant professor who specializes in phenomenology, feminist philosophy and philosophy of race
• Jeeloo Liu, assistant professor who specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and Chinese philosophy
• Ryan Nichols, assistant professor who specializes in early modern philosophy, experimental philosophy and philosophy of religion
• Shari Neller Starrett, associate professor who specializes in Hegel, Nietzsche, contemporary continental philosophy and philosophy of feminism

For more information on the university's philosophy department, visit http://philosophy.fullerton.edu.