Faculty and Research Interests
Faculty members in the Department of Philosophy are listed below. Please click on a name to view detailed information. Scroll down or click here to see a list of faculty research interests, and here to see our recent research.
Full-time Faculty
Annie Larivée, Departmental Chair
- Ancient philosophy and its modern reappropriations; Philosophy as a way of life; Philosophy as therapy; Philosophy of Love and Sex.
- Email Annie
- ext 3799
Christine Koggel
- Moral and political philosophy; Feminist theory; Gender; Development ethics; Relational theory; Applied ethics; Settler-colonialism; Indigenous Issues
- Email Christine
- ext 3239
Gabriele Contessa
- Social Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Economics; Political Philosophy
- Email Gabriele
- ext 4197
Gordon Davis
- Moral philosophy; Kant; Social and political philosophy; Metaethics; Comparative history of ethics
- Email Gordon
Kyla Bruff
- Interim Undergraduate Supervisor (July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026) German Idealism; Critical theory; 20th c. French Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Existentialism; Romanticism
- Email Kyla
Melissa Frankel
- Early modern philosophy; Feminist philosophy; History of analytic philosophy; Philosophy of perception
- Email Melissa
- ext 1093
Melissa Frankel
- Undergraduate Supervisor (On Sabbatical July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026)
- Email Melissa
- 613-520-2600 ext 1093
Myrto Mylopoulos
- philosophy of mind; philosophy of action; philosophy of cognitive science
- Email Myrto
- ext 3943
Vida Panitch
- Full Professor – Political Philosophy – Philosophy and Economics – Bioethics
- Email Vida
Cross-Appointed Faculty
Mohammed Rustom
- Director (ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Centre for the Study of Islam), Professor of Islamic Thought & Global Philosophy (College of Humanities)
- Email Mohammed
- 613-520-2600 ext 1954
Contract Instructors
Gloria Sanchez-Cuevas
- Contract Instructor
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Ian Maclean-Evans
- Contract Instructor
Professor Emeritus
Eros Corazza
- Philosophy of language, mind and cognitive science; Linguistics and the semantics/pragmatics interface
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Jay Drydyk
- Social and political philosophy; International development ethics; Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sen, Nussbaum
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Steven Davis
- Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Research Professors
Our faculty has a wide range of research interests. Click on the names of the individual faculty members to learn more about them.
- Philosophy of science
- Political Philosophy
- Philosophy of Economics
- Moral philosophy
- Kant
- Social and political philosophy
- Metaethics
- Comparative history of ethics
- Social and political philosophy
- International development ethics
- Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sen, Nussbaum
- Early modern philosophy
- Feminist philosophy (including history of feminist philosophy, and history of women philosophers)
- History of analytic philosophy
- Philosophy of perception
- Moral and political philosophy
- Feminism
- Relational theory
- Development ethics
- Equality theory
- Applied ethics
- Ancient philosophy as a way of life and quest for wisdom (especially Roman Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, Scepticism, the figure of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
- Philosophy as therapy, existential psychology, and the intersection of philosophy and psychotherapy in general
- Modern appropriations of ancient philosophies
- Philosophy of love, friendship, and sex
- Feminism
- Philosophy of life (especially, meaning as a final value in life and its relationship to a life worth living)
- Epistemology (especially, social epistemology and knowledge-related values)
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Action
- Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- Political Philosophy
- Philosophy and Economics
- Bioethics
- German Idealism: Kant, Schelling, Hegel
- Critical theory, especially the Frankfurt School
- 20th century French Philosophy
- Social and political philosophy
- Existentialism
- German Romanticism