Faculty & Staff | Cal State LA

Administrative Faculty
Mark Balaguer, Chair (Ph.D., City University of New York) metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, metaethics, logic ET A424 (323) 343-4189 [email protected]
Richard Dean, Associate Chair (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) moral theory, history of moral philosophy ET A412 (323) 343-4182 [email protected]

Full-Time Faculty
Mohammed Abed (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison) moral philosophy, social & political philosophy (323) 343-5695 [email protected]
Talia Bettcher (Ph.D., UCLA) feminist philosophy, transgender studies, queer theory, early modern philosophy ET A423 (323) 343-4179 [email protected]
Foad Dizadji-Bahmani (Ph.D., London School of Economics) philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of probability ET A412 (323) 343-4176 [email protected]
Katie Howard (Ph.D., Emory) feminist philosophy, political philosophy, affect theory, decolonial thought, history of philosophy ET A422 (323) 343-4178 [email protected]
David Pitt (Ph.D., City University of New York) philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics ET A432 (323) 343-4192 [email protected]
Michael K. Shim, Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook) 20th century Continental philosophy (esp. phenomenology, Husserl), early modern philosophy (esp. Leibniz, rationalism, Kant), philosophy of mind, philosophy of language ET A422 (323) 343-5942 [email protected]
Emeriti: Sharon Bishop, Donald Burrill, Ann Garry, Henry R. Mendell, Sheila Price, Kayley Vernallis In Memoriam: Thomas Annese, Ricardo Gomez, Joseph B. Prabhu, George Vick

Lecturers
Bruce Atta (M.A. Philosophy, CSULA) epistemology, metaphysics, applied ethics ET A430 (323) 343-6070 [email protected]
Joel Chandler (M.A. Philosophy, CSULA) virtue ethics, pragmatism, existential hermeneutics (Heidegger) ET A425 (323) 343-4180 [email protected]
Jay Conway (Ph.D., UC Riverside) history of philosophy (esp. Modern and 19th/20th century European), the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, social & political philosophy, feminist philosophy ET A423 (323) 343-4947 [email protected]
Dirk Farner (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara) ancient philosophy, history of philosophy ET A430 (323) 343-4185 [email protected]
Ronald Houts (Ph.D., UCLA) critical thinking, logic, perception ET A414 (323) 343-4190 not email accessible
Keith Kaiser (Ph.D., UCLA) metaphysics, philosophy of mind ET A430 (323) 343-4180 [email protected]
Sheila Price (M.A. Philosophy, M.A. Folklore & Mythology, UCLA) recent philosophy, philosophy of religion, comparative religions, East Asian philosophy, environmental ethics ET A414 (323) 343-4187 [email protected]