Northern Illinois University
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• Harold I. Brown, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Northwestern)
  philosophy of science, epistemology
  hibrown@niu.edu
• David J. Buller, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Northwestern)
  philosophy of science, logic and philosophy of logic, history of analytic philosophy
• James Dye (1934-2016), Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Tulane)
  ancient Greek philosophy, 18th century philosophy, philosophy of religion
• C. Michael Gelven (1937-2018), Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Washington University)
  metaphysics, Heidegger, Kant, Nietzsche, philosophy in literature, philosophy of war
• James Hudson, Associate Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins)
  ethics, social and political philosophy, analytic philosophy
  jhudson@niu.edu
• Tomis Kapitan (1949-2016), Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Indiana)
  metaphysics, philosophy of language, international ethics
• James King, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Notre Dame)
  ethics, philosophy of law, modern philosophy
  jtking@niu.edu
• Theodore Kisiel (1930-2021), Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Duquesne)
  phenomenology, hermeneutics of natural science, history of philosophy, metaphysics
• William Tolhurst (1947-2011), Associate Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
  ethical theory, aesthetics, Chinese philosophy
• E. W. van Steenburgh, Associate Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Michigan)
  philosophy of mind
• Sharon Sytsma, Associate Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Loyola)
  ethical theory, biomedical ethics, ancient Greek philosophy
  ssytsma@niu.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Dorothy Coleman, Adjunct Associate Professor (Ph.D., Penn State)
Hume, Kant, modern philosophy, epistemology, ethics
dcoleman@niu.edu