Philosophy Department Experts
To reach these experts, please contact Associate Director of Communications and Media Relations Kristen Magda at 508-565-1628; kmagda@stonehill.edu or Director of Communications and Media Relations Martin McGovern at 508-565-1070; mmcgovern@stonehill.edu.
Richard M. Capobianco
Philosophy Department Chair/Professor of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: 20th century European philosophy; Philosophy of art and architecture; Philosophy and psychology; Art (aesthetics); Multiculturalism and the curriculum; Honors programs.
Anthony Celano
Professor of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Philosophy; Ethics: Current moral problems; Early Greek philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; Mythology and morality.
Claus Dierksmeier
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Germany; Spain; Latin America; Ethics; Philosophy; Religion; Human rights; Liberalism; German culture; Krausismo, a Spanish/Latin American philosophy of freedom with great political influence in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Anna Lännström
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Ancient Greek philosophy; Aristotle's ethics; Editor of Promise and Peril: The Paradox of Religion as Resource and Threat and of The Stranger's Religion: Fascination and Fear.
Constantinos Mekios
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Philosophy of biology and science; History of philosophy; Ancient philosophy.
Brendan O'Sullivan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Philosophy of the mind; Metaphysics; Ancient philosophy; Saul Kripke.
Stephanie Wykstra
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Early modern philosophy; Epistemology; Descartes and the possibility of certainty; Moral psychology; Philosophical methodology.
Geoff Anders
Faculty Fellow-Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Metaphysics; Early modern philosophy; Kant; Philosophical methodology; Philosophy of religion; Ancient and medieval philosophy; Ethics; Descartes' metaphysics.
Celia Wolf-Devine
Professor Emerita of Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Gender issues; Diversity; Author of Sex and Gender: A Spectrum of Views, Diversity and Community in the Academy: Affirmative Action in Faculty Appointments, and Descartes on Seeing: Epistemology and Visual Perception.Journal of the History of Philosophy.