Faculty & Staff

Administrative Faculty
Mark Balaguer

Mark Balaguer, Chair (Ph.D., City University of New York)
metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, metaethics, logic
 
ET A424
(323) 343-4189
mbalagu@calstatela.edu

Richard Dean

Richard Dean, Associate Chair (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
moral theory, history of moral philosophy
 
ET A412
(323) 343-4182
rdean@calstatela.edu

 

Full-Time Faculty
Mohammed Abed (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison)
moral philosophy, social & political philosophy
 
(323) 343-5695
mabed@calstatela.edu
Talia

Talia Bettcher (Ph.D., UCLA)
feminist philosophy, transgender studies, queer theory, early modern philosophy
 
ET A423
(323) 343-4179
tbettch@calstatela.edu

Foad Dizadji-Bahmani

Foad Dizadji-Bahmani (Ph.D., London School of Economics)
philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of probability
 
ET A412
(323) 343-4176
fdizadj@calstatela.edu

Katie Howard

Katie Howard (Ph.D., Emory)
feminist philosophy, political philosophy, affect theory, decolonial thought, history of philosophy
 
ET A422
(323) 343-4178
khowar19@calstatela.edu

David Pitt

David Pitt (Ph.D., City University of New York)
philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics
 
ET A432
(323) 343-4192
dpitt@calstatela.edu

Michael Shim

Michael K. Shim, Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook)
20th century Continental philosophy (esp. phenomenology, Husserl), early modern philosophy (esp. Leibniz, rationalism, Kant), philosophy of mind, philosophy of language
 
ET A422
(323) 343-5942
mshim@calstatela.edu

Emeriti: Sharon Bishop, Donald Burrill, Ann Garry, Henry R. Mendell, Sheila Price, Kayley Vernallis
In Memoriam: Thomas Annese, Ricardo Gomez, Joseph B. Prabhu, George Vick

 

Lecturers
Bruce Atta

Bruce Atta (M.A. Philosophy, CSULA)
epistemology, metaphysics, applied ethics
 
ET A430
(323) 343-6070
batta@calstatela.edu

Joel Chandler

Joel Chandler (M.A. Philosophy, CSULA)
virtue ethics, pragmatism, existential hermeneutics (Heidegger)
 
ET A425
(323) 343-4180
joel.chandler5@calstatela.edu

Jay Conway

Jay Conway (Ph.D., UC Riverside)
history of philosophy (esp. Modern and 19th/20th century European), the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, social & political philosophy, feminist philosophy
 
ET A423
(323) 343-4947
jay.t.conway@gmail.com

Dirk Farner

Dirk Farner (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara)
ancient philosophy, history of philosophy
 
ET A430
(323) 343-4185
dfarner@calstatela.edu

Ronald Houts

Ronald Houts (Ph.D., UCLA)
critical thinking, logic, perception
 
ET A414
(323) 343-4190
not email accessible

Keith Kaiser

Keith Kaiser (Ph.D., UCLA)
metaphysics, philosophy of mind
 
ET A430
(323) 343-4180
kkaiser@csulb.edu

Sheila Price

Sheila Price (M.A. Philosophy, M.A. Folklore & Mythology, UCLA)
recent philosophy, philosophy of religion, comparative religions, East Asian philosophy, environmental ethics
 
ET A414
(323) 343-4187
sprice@calstatela.edu