Part Time Faculty

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Andrei Antokhin

Part-Time Professor

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black@usfca.edu

Katherine Black

Part-Time Professor

Katherine Black, JD has been an adjunct at USF since 1999. Her areas of interest are early modern philosophy, jurisprudence and virtue ethics. She has taught Philosophy of the Human Person, Great Philosophical Questions and Ethics at USF, as well as Critical Thinking and Introduction to Western Philosophy elsewhere. She has co-authored work that has appeared in an American Bar Association publication, has written numerous articles for business publications, and has written a piece for the Peace Review. She currently focuses on teaching ethics.

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mbrown@workingethics.edu

Marvin Brown

Part-Time Professor

Marvin T Brown PhD has been teaching and consulting in business and organizational ethics for over 30 years. He continues to teach business ethics in the Philosophy Department at the University of San Francisco. He is now a regular blogger on the web site: civilizingtheeconomy.com.

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dbyrd@usfca.edu

David Byrd

Part-Time Professor

David Byrd received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Davis. His research and teaching interests include the philosophy of mind and the foundations of cognitive science. He has coauthored work that has appeared in The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, the Journal of Philosophical Research, and most recently in the Oxford UP book, Teleosemantics, edited by Graham McDonald and David Papineau. His current interests include defending functionalism against recent reductionist arguments in cognitive science.

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mcifone@usfca.edu

Michaele Cifone

Part-Time Professor

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abrol@mac.com

Abrol Fairweather

Part-Time Professor

Abrol Fairweather received his PhD in Philosophy at UC-Santa Barbara in 2005 and works primarily the growing field of Virtue Epistemology. His recent research focuses on naturalized virtue epistemology (Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue, editor, CUP), and examines the significance of recent research in social psychological and behavioral economics for traditional theories of knowledge and rationality (Epistemic Situationism, edited with Mark Alfano, OUP). He also works on collective agency and institutional virtues, most recently in "Institutional Wisdom" (forthcoming in Collective Epistemology, OUP).

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jafisher@usfca.edu

Jennifer Fisher

Part-Time Professor

Jennifer Fisher received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2003. Her interests include epistemology, the philosophy of logic, and meta-ethics.

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mjgaudet@usfca.edu

Matthew Gaudet

Part-Time Professor

Matthew Gaudet's main teaching and research interests are in foundational ethics, theories of justice, and the ethics of warfare. He is also interested in the intersection of philosophical and theological ethics as well as the intersection of ethics with social and political theory. He has taught in the Philosophy Department and the Theology and Religious Studies Department.

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rgordon@usfca.edu

Rebecca Gordon

Part-Time Lecturer

Rebecca Gordon received her B.A. from Reed College and her M.Div. and Ph.D. from Graduate Theological Union. Her dissertation in the field of Ethics and Social Theory focuses on the United States' use of torture in the post-9/11 period. Other interests include political philosophy, theories of justice including questions of race and gender justice, and their application in the world - in particular through community engagement and service learning.

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lavezzo@usfca.edu

Constantino Lavezzo

Part-Time Professor

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grmulberry@usfca.edu

Greig Mulberry

Part-Time Professor

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rastarkman@usfca.edu

Ruth Starkman

Part-Time Professor

Ruth Starkman teaches at ethics USF and biomedical ethics Stanford University, is the author of two books and writes on political theory, ethics, medicine, science, the Middle East and higher education.

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amtimko@usfca.edu

Amy Timko

Part-Time Professor

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nazeigler@usfca.edu

Nancy Zeigler

Part-Time Professor

Nancy Zeigler has been teaching in the Philosophy Department at USF since 2003. She has taught Ethics, Great Philosophical Questions, Problems in Democracy and Social and Political Philosophy in addition to Existentialism, which she teaches nearly every semester. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband Chip Buchanan.