Full-Time Faculty
Dr. Melanie Coughlin
Ph.D (McGill University)
- Email: mcoughlin13@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- East Asian Philosophy and Religions, especially the Kyoto School and Japanese Buddhism
- German Philosophy
- Social Philosophy, especially Critical Disability and Feminist Theory
Dr. Shannon Hoff
Undergraduate Program Director
Ph.D. (Stony Brook University)
- Office: AA-3103
- Telephone: (709) 864-8341
- Email: shoff@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- Hegel
- Feminist Philosophy
- Aesthetics
- Social and Political Philosophy
- 19th- and 20th-Century European Philosophy
Dr. James Scott Johnston
Ph.D. (University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Office: ED-5002 & AA-3107
- Telephone: (709) 864-6924 & (709) 864-8340
- Email: sjohnston12@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- Philosophy of Education
- Ethics and Political Philosophy
- American Philosophy
- Pragmatism, John Dewey
- Continental and Analytic Philosophy in Conversation
- Kant
Dr. Sean McGrath
Coordinator, Diploma in Environmental Humanities
Ph.D. (Toronto)
- Office: AA-3066
- Telephone: (709) 864-3754
- Email: smcgrath@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- Metaphysics
- Phenomenology
- Psychoanalysis
- German Philosophy
- Philosophy of Religion
Dr. Seamus O'Neill
Graduate Officer
Ph.D. (Dalhousie, Classics)
- Office: AA-3100
- Telephone: (709) 864-8332
- Email: sjoneill@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- Ancient Philosophy
- Neoplatonism
- Medieval Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Religion
- Demonology
Dr. Sumangali (Suma) Rajiva
Ph.D. (Toronto)
- Office: AA-3098
- Telephone: (709) 864-8307
- Email: srajiva@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- Kant
- Early Modern philosophy, especially Descartes to Hume
- Ancient philosophy, especially Plato
Dr. Arthur Sullivan
Department Head
Ph.D. (Queens)
- Office: AA-3105 and AA-3070A
- Telephone: (709) 864-8333 and (709) 864-8336 (main office)
- Email: arthurs@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- Philosophy of Language and Mind
- Logic
- Epistemology
- Metaphysics
Dr. Peter Trnka
Coordinator, Diploma in Humanities
Ph.D. (Toronto)
- Office: AA-3067
- Telephone: (709) 864-8338
- Email: ptrnka@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- Epistemology
- Ethics and Politics
- Philosophy of Science
- Spinoza, Hume, Marx, Deleuze, Foucault, and Negri
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Dr. Nicole Whalen
Ph.D. (CUNY Graduate Center)
- Office: AA-3102
- n.whalen@mun.ca
Areas of Specialization:
- Political Philosophy
- History of Philosophy
- Environmental Philosophy