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  • Professor Dennis Dalton

    Ph.D., University of London, Barnard College, Columbia University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

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  • Professor Daniel N. Robinson

    Ph.D., City University of New York, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University; Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus, Georgetown

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

    View all 6 courses

  • Professor Alan Charles Kors

    Ph.D., Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor Michael Sugrue

    Ph.D., Columbia University, Ave Maria University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor David Zarefsky

    Ph.D., Northwestern University, Northwestern University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition

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  • Professor Robert H. Kane

    Ph. D., Yale University, The University of Texas at Austin

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Phillip Cary

    Ph.D., Yale University, Eastern University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Religion & Theology

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 8 courses

  • Professor Louis Markos

    Ph.D., University of Michigan, Houston Baptist University

    Topics: Literature & English Language, Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

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  • Professor Darren Staloff

    Ph.D., Columbia University, City College of New York

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

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  • Professor Robert C. Solomon

    Ph.D., University of Michigan, The University of Texas at Austin

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 4 courses

  • Professor Jeremy Adams

    Ph.D., Harvard University, Southern Methodist University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Jeremy Shearmur

    Ph.D., University of London, Australian National University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Kathleen M. Higgins

    Ph.D., Yale University, The University of Texas at Austin

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Luke Timothy Johnson

    Ph.D., Yale University, Emory University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Religion & Theology

    Most popular course:

    The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

    View all 14 courses

  • Professor Joseph Koterski, S.J.

    Ph.D., St. Louis University, Fordham University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Religion & Theology

    Most popular course:

    Biblical Wisdom Literature

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  • Professor Lloyd Kramer

    Ph.D., Cornell University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor David Roochnik

    Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Boston University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Plato's Republic

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor James Hall

    Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Richmond

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Religion & Theology

    Most popular course:

    Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Leo Damrosch

    Ph.D., Princeton University, Harvard University

    Topics: Literature & English Language, Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Mark Risjord

    Ph.D., The University of North Carolina, Emory University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Douglas Kellner

    Ph.D., Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Allen C. Guelzo

    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg College

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    History of the United States, 2nd Edition

    View all 6 courses

  • Professor Steven L. Goldman

    Ph.D., Boston University, Lehigh University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Science & Mathematics

    Most popular course:

    Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor Patrick Grim

    Ph.D., Boston University, State University of New York at Stony Brook

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Stephen A. Erickson

    Ph.D., Yale University, Pomona College

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Philosophy as a Guide to Living

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Jeffrey L. Kasser

    Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Colorado State University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Science & Mathematics

    Most popular course:

    Philosophy of Science

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Ashton Nichols

    Ph.D., University of Virginia, Dickinson College

    Topics: Literature & English Language, Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Joseph F. Kobylka

    Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Southern Methodist University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Cycles of American Political Thought

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Thomas L. Pangle

    Ph.D., University of Chicago, The University of Texas at Austin

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Robert C. Bartlett

    Ph.D., Boston College, Boston College

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Don Howard

    Ph.D., Boston University, University of Notre Dame

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Science & Mathematics

    Most popular course:

    Albert Einstein: Physicist, Philosopher, Humanitarian

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Shaun Nichols

    Ph.D., Rutgers University, University of Arizona

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Mark A. Stoler

    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, The University of Vermont

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    The Skeptic's Guide to American History

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Paul Gordon Lauren

    Ph.D., Stanford University, The University of Montana

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Rights of Man: Great Thinkers and Great Movements

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Judith V. Grabiner

    Ph.D., Harvard University, Pitzer College

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Science & Mathematics

    Most popular course:

    Mathematics, Philosophy, and the "Real World"

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Francis J. Ambrosio

    Ph.D., Fordham University, Georgetown University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Religion & Theology

    Most popular course:

    Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Tyler Roberts

    Ph.D., Harvard University, Grinnell College

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Religion & Theology

    Most popular course:

    Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate in the Western Intellectual Tradition

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Lawrence Cahoone

    Ph.D., Stony Brook University, College of the Holy Cross

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Jay L. Garfield

    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Smith College

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World’s Great Intellectual Traditions

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Jerry Z. Muller

    Ph.D., Columbia University, The Catholic University of America

    Topics: Business & Economics, Philosophy & Intellectual History

    Most popular course:

    Thinking about Capitalism

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Thomas Williams

    Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, University of South Florida

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, Religion & Theology

    Most popular course:

    Reason & Faith: Philosophy in the Middle Ages

    View all 1 courses

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