Weatherhead Chair in Philosophy: Richard Velkley, PhD Pennsylvania State University, 1978.
Before coming to Tulane Prof. Velkley taught at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989) and Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Shane Courtland, ABD Tulane. Completing his dissertation on "Hobbesian Public Reason."

Alison Denham, D. Phil. Oxford 1989.
Prof. Denham is a Fellow in Philosophy at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Metaphor and Moral Experience: an essay in the psychology of value (Oxford University Press, 2000)

Christopher Kane, Ph.D. Brown University, 2007
Dissertation: "The Naive Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Vindicated."

Chris Ferro, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2007
Dissertation: "The Possibility of Practice and Practical Thought."

Joint Appointment in Philosophy and Women’s Studies:
Nancy Lawrence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Completing her dissertation, “A Priori Knowledge and the Revisability of Logic”

Radu Bogdanis on leave for 2007-08, teaching at the University of Bilkent in Turkey.

Jonathan Riley is on sabbatical leave for fall semester 2007.

Tulane is home to The Murphy Institute of Political Economy, which offers an undergraduate program in political economy and supports PPE: A Journal of Politics,Philosophy, and Economics. The Philosophy Department is closely connected with the Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, which provides faculty and graduate fellowships and sponsors an active lecture series.
John Howard, who is Associate Director of the Murphy Institute and teaches courses in the philosophy department, was awarded the 2007 Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Non-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, and Law, 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

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, and Law, 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

2004: Matthew Oberrieder- Assistant Professor, Mercer College, Macon Georgia (tenure-track)

2003: Andrew Pavelich- Associate Professor, University of Houston, Downtown campus (Tenure-track)

2002: Jason Tipton- St. John's College, Annapolis (Tenure-track)

2002: Lyle Jennings- Loyola University, New Orleans (1 yr. position renewed)

2002: Desheng Zong- Assistant Professor, Utica College

2000: Michael Golluber - St. John's College, Santa Fe (Tenure-track)

2000: Tamba Nlandu- John Carroll University, Cleveland (Tenure-track)

1999: Judith Crane- Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (Tenure-track)

Manuel Grau, Graduate Research Fellowship sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs

Gwenda-lin Grewal, Earhart Graduate Student Fellowship,2007-08

"Heidegger's Religious Origins: Destruction and Authenticity," Indiana University Press.

"Division and Combination of Labor in Aristotle's Biological Writings," in The Journal of Bioeconomics 3 (2001): 51-55.

"Darwin's Beautiful Notion: Sexual Selection and Plurality of Moral Codes," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 21/2 (1999): 1-19.