Faculty | Philosophy | SIU

Randall Auxier was educated in the philosophy departments of the University of Memphis (B.A. 1986 and M.A. 1988) and Emory University (MA 1991 and Ph.D, 1992). His specialization in semiotics and symbol theory prepared him for a career spanning from extensive work in logic and metaphysics to popular culture and ...read full profile >>

Matthew J. Brown specializes in Pragmatism and American Philosophy (esp. John Dewey), 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science, Comics Studies. He is the author of Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), which ...read full profile >>

Alfred Frankowski specializes in Critical Philosophy of Race, African American and Africana Philosophy, Aesthetics, Post-Colonialism and Critical Genocide Studies. He also specializes in19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy and Contemporary Global Political Philosophy. He ...read full profile >>

PhD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2014.MA, The New School, 2009. BS, SUNY Stony Brook, 2002. Nicholas Guardiano specializes in American transcendentalism and pragmatism (esp. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Peirce), metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of nature, semiotics, and nineteenth-century ...read full profile >>

Education Ph.D., Philosophy, Yale University, May 1976M. Phil., Philosophy, Yale University, May 1975M.A., Philosophy, Yale University, December 1975 Professional Experience 2002-present: Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois; University at Carbondale1988-2001: Associate Professor of Philosophy1982-1988: ...read full profile >>

Dr. Joseph L. Smith has a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the School of Africana and Multicultural Studies, and the School of History and Philosophy. Smith received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2020), an LL.M. in International Economic Law from Xiamen ...read full profile >>

Kenneth Stikkers earned his PhD at DePaul University and arrived at SIUC in 1997. Previously he was Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He has also been a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico, the University of Warsaw, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and ...read full profile >>

Andrew Youpa received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2002 from the University of California, Irvine. He joined the faculty in the Department of Philosophy at SIU as an Assistant Professor in 2003. In 2010, he received the Outstanding Faculty Member Teaching in the University Core Curriculum Award. In 2020, he ...read full profile >>