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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Edward Thomson |
1843 - 1844 | Professor of Philosophy of the Human Mind and Oral Philosophy |
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Andrew Ten Brook |
1844 - 1851 1864 - 1877 |
Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy Chair of Philosophy Librarian |
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William Stanton Curtis |
1851 - 1952 | Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy |
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Henry Philip Tappan |
1852 - 1863 |
Professor of Philosophy President of the University of Michigan |
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Lucius Delison Chapin |
1863 - 1868 | Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy |
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Benjamin Franklin Cocker |
1869 - 1883 |
Professor of Philosophy Chair of Philosophy |
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John Dewey |
1884 - 1894 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Alfred Henry Lloyd |
1891 - 1927 |
Professor of Philosophy Dean of the Graduate School Acting President of the University |
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George Rebec |
1891 - 1904 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Robert Mark Wenley |
1896 - 1929 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Carl Vernon Tower |
1898 | Assistant Professor of Phylosophy |
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Charles B. Vibbert |
1905 - 1947 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Roy Wood Sellars |
1905 - 1950 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Dewitt H. Parker |
1908 - 1949 |
Mark Wenley Professor of Philosophy Chair Department of Philosophy |
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P. Brand Blanshard |
1921 - 1922 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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C. R. Morris |
1926 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Raymond Hoekstra |
1928 - 1936 | Instructor in Philosophy & Psychology |
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Cooper Harold Langford |
1929 - 1964 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Andrew Paul Ushenko |
1931 - 1937 | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
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William K. Frankena |
1937 - 1978 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Paul Henle |
1937 - 1962 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Arthur W. Burks |
1946 - 1986 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Philosophy |
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Charles Leslie Stevenson |
1946 - 1977 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Irving Marmer Copi |
1948 - 1972 | Professor of Philosophy |
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William Payne Alston |
1949 - 1971 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Arnold S Kaufman |
1955 - 1969 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Carl Cohen |
1955 - 2017 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Frithjof H. Bergmann |
1961 - 1999 | Professor of Philosophy |
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George I. Mavrodes |
1961 - 1995 | Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics |
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James O. Urmson |
1961 | Visiting Professor of Philosophy, 1961, 1965, 1969 |
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Jack W. Meiland |
1962 - 1997 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Alvin I. Goldman |
1963 - 1980 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Abraham Kaplan |
1963 - 1973 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Donald J. Munro |
1964 - 1996 | Professor of Philosophy, Chinese |
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Joseph D. Sneed |
1964 - 1966 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Bernard A. Berofsky |
1964 - 1967 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Richard B. Brandt |
1964 - 1981 |
Professor of Philosophy Chair Department of Philosophy |
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Yehoshua Bar Hillel |
1965 | Visiting Professor of Philosophy |
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Stig G. Kanger |
1965 - 1966 | Visiting Professor of Philosophy |
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Kendall L. Walton |
1965 - 2011 |
Professor of Philosophy Charles L. Stevenson Collegiate Professor Professor of Art & Design |
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Peter L. Heath |
1966 1969 |
Visiting Professor of Philosophy |
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Jaegwon Kim |
1967 - 1988 |
Roy Wood Selars Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy Chair of Department of Philosophy |
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Stephen P. Stich |
1967 - 1979 | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
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David B. Moody |
1968 - 2003 |
Professor of Psychology Research Professor Kresge Hearing Research Institute |
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Lawrence Sklar |
1968 - 2016 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Donald H. Regan |
1968 - 2023 | Professor of Law & Philosophy |
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Nicholas P. White |
1969 - 1995 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Susan S. Lipschutz |
1970 - 1986 |
Adjunct Associate Professor Associate Provost Associate Dean of the Graduate School |
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John G. Bennett |
1971 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Holly Martin Smith |
1973 - 1980 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Louis E. Loeb |
1974 - 2016 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Richard Statman |
1976 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Timothy G. McCarthy |
1977 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Allan F. Gibbard |
1977 - 2016 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Kit Fine |
1978 - 1988 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Adrian M.S. Piper |
1979 - 1982 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Sarah O’Brien Conly |
1980 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Akell Bilgrami |
1981 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Stephen L. White |
1981 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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J. David Velleman |
1983 - 2005 |
GEM Asncombe Collegiate Professor of Philosophy James B. and Grace J. Nelson Professor of Philosophy |
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Barnaby B. Barratt |
1984 | Assistant Professor of Psychology and American Culture |
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Paul A. Boghossian |
1984 - 1992 | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
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Stephen Leicester Darwall |
1984 - 2008 |
John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy |
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William W. Taschek |
1985 - 1991 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Stephen J. Yablo |
1986 - 1998 | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
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Crispin James Garth Wright |
1987 - 1994 | James B. and Grace J. Nelson Professor of Philosophy |
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Linda M. Blum |
1988 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Gideon A. Rosen |
1989 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Alan D. Code |
1991 - 1992 | Professor of Classical Studies, Philosophy |
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Sally Haslanger |
1992 - 1998 | Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies |
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Ruth Garrett Millikan |
1992 - 1996 | Professor of Philosophy |
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Ian P. Rumfitt |
1993 - 1998 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Edwin Curley |
1993 - 2010 |
Professor of Philosophy James B. & Grace J. Nelson Professor of Philosophy |
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Mark Crimmins |
1994 - 1999 | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
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Steven D. Everson |
1995 - 1999 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Philip J. Ivanhoe |
1997 - 2002 |
Associate Professor of Philosophy Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures |
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Ian N. Proops |
1998 - 2009 |
Associate Professor of Philosophy Associate Chair, Department of Philosophy |
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Thomas Hofweber |
1999 - 2003 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Richmond H. Thomason |
1999 - 2021 |
Professor of Philosophy, Linguistics Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science |
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Rachana Kamtekar |
2000 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Jason C. Stanley |
2000 - 2004 | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
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Jessica M. Wilson |
2001 - 2005 | William Wilhartz Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Michelle A. Kosch |
2002 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Peter Ludlow |
2002 - 2007 | Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics |
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Anthony S. Gillies |
2004 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Scott J. Shapiro |
2005 - 2008 |
Professor of Philosophy Professor of Law |
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Boris Kment |
2005 - 2009 |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy William Wilhartz Assistant Professor |
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Andrew Michael Egan |
2005 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Maria A. Aarnio |
2010 - 2018 | Associate Professor of Philosophy |
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Matthew L. Evans |
2011 - 2014 | Associate Professor of Philosophy |