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Manuel Barrantes, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

mbarrant@hamilton.edu

B.A., Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Areas of expertise: philosophy of science

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Justin Clark, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

jcclark@hamilton.edu

B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Western Michigan University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Areas of expertise: ethics, ancient philosophy, social and political philosophy

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Megan Dean, Chauncey Truax Post-doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

mxdean@hamilton.edu

B.A., University of King’s College and Dalhousie University; M.A., University of Alberta; Ph.D., Georgetown University

Areas of expertise: bioethics, feminist philosophy, 20th-century European philosophy, philosophy of food

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Katheryn Doran, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy

kdoran@hamilton.edu

B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.A. and Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Areas of expertise: American philosophy, the problem of skepticism, contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, and environmental ethics

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A. Todd Franklin, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies

tfrankli@hamilton.edu

B.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., Stanford University

Areas of expertise: existentialism, African-American philosophy, and Nietzsche

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Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy

mjanack@hamilton.edu

B.A., Colgate University; M.A. and Ph.D., Syracuse University

Areas of expertise: epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, theories of identity, feminist theory, philosophy and literature, and American pragmatism

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Russell Marcus, Associate Professor of Philosophy

rmarcus1@hamilton.edu

B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Areas of expertise: philosophy of mathematics, logic, modern philosophy, and pedagogy

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Alexandra Plakias '02, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

aaplakia@hamilton.edu

B.A., Hamilton College; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Areas of expertise: metaethics, moral psychology and ethics

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Richard Werner, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

rwerner@hamilton.edu

A.B., Rutgers University; A.M. and Ph.D., University of Rochester

Areas of expertise: ethics, ancient philosophy, pragmatism and public philosophy

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Philosophy Department

198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

315-859-4532 philosophy@hamilton.edu