Emeritus Faculty
Thomas Alexander
Professor, Emeritus
Email: talex@siu.edu
Ph.D., Emory University
Research Interests and Specialties: American philosophy (esp., Dewey, Santayana, Emerson), aesthetics, metaphysics, classical philosophy (esp. Presocratics and Plato), Native American Wisdom Traditions.
Euginie Gatens-Robinson
Professor, Emeritus
Email: genrog@mebtel.net
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Garth Gillan
Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., Dusquesne University
Larry Hickman
Professor, Emeritus
Phone: 618.453.229
Office: Faner, Room 3035
Email: lhickman@siu.edu
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Director of the Center for Dewey Studies 1993-2015
Philosophy of technology, classical American Philosophy, philosophy of education.
Monographs include Modern Theories of Higher Level Predicates (1980); John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology (1990); Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture (2001); Pragmatism as Post-Postermodernism (2007); Edited volumes include Technology and Human Affairs (1981); Reading Dewey (1998); The Essential Dewey (with Thomas Alexander) (1998); The Correspondence of John Dewey (1999, 2001, 2005). Articles on technology, environmental philosophy, critical theory, pragmatism, education, film studies, philosophy of religion.
Matthew Kelly
Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Pat Manfredi
Associate Professor, Emeritus
Email: manfredi@siu.edu
Ph.D., Notre Dame University
Metaphysics, philosophy of mind and psychology, cognitive science, action theory.
Author of articles on analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind and psychology.
Former Director, University Core Curriculum
George Schedler
Chair and Professor, Emeritus
Email: geosched@siu.edu
Ph.D., University of California at San Diego
Anthony Steinbock
Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., SUNY, Stony Brook
Stephen Tyman
Associate Professor, Emeritus
Phone: 618.453.7452
Office: Faner, Room 3036
Email: sttyman@siu.edu
CV (pdf)
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Eighteenth and Nineteenth century European philosophy, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, phenomenology and existentialism (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche).
Author of "Descrying the Ideal: The Philosophy of John William Miller", and articles on Heidegger and Nietzsche.