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Philosophy and Religious Studies

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Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
L & L Building Room 337
(509) 963-1818
philo@cwu.edu

Faculty and Staff

 

Department Chair

Jeffrey Dippman

Jeffrey Dippmann, PhD, Department Chair and Professor

jeffrey.dippmann@cwu.edu
LL 337C, (509) 963-3172; Specialties - Asian Religion and Philosophy, Daoism, Buddhist Philosophy, World Religions

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Professors
Matthew Altman

Matthew Altman, PhD, Professor
matthew.altman@cwu.edu
LL337A, (509) 963-2839; Specialties - Kant, Applied Ethics, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Art
Gary Bartlett

Gary Bartlett, PhD, Professor
gary.bartlett@cwu.edu
LL316; (509) 963-2824; Specialties - Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Epistemology
 
Cynthia Coe

Cynthia Coe, PhD, Professor

cynthia.coe@cwu.edu
LL 318; Specialties - Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy

 
Michael Goerger

Michael Goerger, PhD, Associate Professor
michael.goerger@cwu.edu
LL 346; (509) 963-2041; Specialties - Ethical Theory, Ancient Greco-Roman Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
Lily Vuong

Lily Vuong, PhD, Associate Professor

lily.vuong@cwu.edu
LL 337B, 509/963-1973; Specialties - Early Judaism; Early Christianity; New Testament Apocrypha; Feminist Theory

Lecturers

Lauren Nuckols, PhD, Lecturer
lauren.nuckols@cwu.edu
LL344; Specialties - Ethics, Pragmatism, Environmental Philosophy

David Schwan, PhD, Lecturer

david.schwan@cwu.edu
LL347; Specialties - Ethics, Philosophy of Emotion, Moral Psychology
Karen Turcotte

Karen Turcotte, MA Senior Lecturer
karen.turcotte@cwu.edu
LL 337D; Specialties - Comparative Religions, Religion of India, Philosophies of India
 

Staff

Hillary Matson, Secretary Senior
philo@cwu.edu
LL 337, (509) 963-1818

 


 

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