Weatherhead Chair in Philosophy: Richard Velkley, PhDPennsylvania State University, 1978.
Before comingto Tulane Prof. Velkley taught at The Catholic University of America.He is the author of Freedom and the End of Reason: On theMoralFoundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (Chicago: Universityof Chicago Press, 1989) and Being after Rousseau: PhilosophyandCulture in Question (Chicago: The University of ChicagoPress, 2002).

• ShaneCourtland, ABD Tulane. Completing hisdissertation on "Hobbesian Public Reason."
• AlisonDenham, D. Phil. Oxford1989.
  Prof. Denham is a Fellow in Philosophy at St Anne’s College,University of Oxford. She is the author of Metaphor and MoralExperience: an essay in the psychology of value (OxfordUniversity Press, 2000)
• ChristopherKane, Ph.D. BrownUniversity, 2007
  Dissertation: "The Naive Counterfactual Analysis of CausationVindicated."
• ChrisFerro, Ph.D. University ofChicago, 2007
  Dissertation: "The Possibility of Practice and Practical Thought."
• Joint Appointment in Philosophy and Women’sStudies:
  Nancy Lawrence,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Completing her dissertation, “A Priori Knowledge and theRevisability of Logic”

• RaduBogdan is on leave for 2007-08, teaching at the University ofBilkent in Turkey.
• JonathanRiley is on sabbatical leave for fall semester 2007.

Tulane is home to The Murphy Instituteof Political Economy, which offers an undergraduate programin political economy and supports PPE: AJournal of Politics,Philosophy, and Economics. The Philosophy Department iscloselyconnected with the Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics andPublic Affairs, which provides faculty and graduate fellowships andsponsors an active lecture series.
JohnHoward, who is AssociateDirector of the Murphy Institute and teaches courses in the philosophydepartment, was awarded the 2007 Mortar Board Award for Excellence inNon-Tenured Teaching..

• 2007: Drew Chastain- Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Xavier Univ., N.O.
• 2007: Michael Madary- Teaching Fellow, Bristol University, England
• 2007: Jonny Anomaly- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Philosophy, Policy, andLaw, University of Virginia, 2007-08
• 2006: Julinna Oxley- Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University (tenure-track)
• 2005: Paul Haught- Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Newberry College
• more...

• Manuel Grau, Graduate ResearchFellowship sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs
• Gwenda-lin Grewal, Earhart Graduate StudentFellowship,2007-08

• "Heidegger's Religious Origins: Destruction andAuthenticity," Indiana University Press.

• "Division and Combination of Labor in Aristotle'sBiological Writings," in The Journalof Bioeconomics 3 (2001): 51-55.
• "Darwin's Beautiful Notion: Sexual Selection andPlurality of Moral Codes," Historyand Philosophy of the Life Sciences 21/2 (1999): 1-19.