Faculty and Staff

Jennifer Armstrong

Senior Lecturer

50 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3072
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: unhcogito@comcast.net

Education:
A.B., Colby College, 1985
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, 1987
M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1991
Ph.D., ibid., 1995

Courses Taught:
PHIL 412: Beginning Logic
PHIL 450: Ecology and Values
PHIL 660: Law, Medicine, and Morals

Andrew Christie

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department

27 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3078
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: drewc@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Princeton University, 1974
M.S.L., Yale University Law School, 1978
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983

Courses Taught:
PHIL 412: Beginning Logic
PHIL 450: Ecology and Values
PHIL 530: Moral Philosophy
PHIL 635: Philosophy of Law
PHIL 780: Spc Top/ James and Buddha

Fields of Research: 
contemporary environmental issues, legal issues, pragmatism (especially William James and John Dewey)

Willem deVries

Professor of Philosophy

44 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3077
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: willem.devries@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Education:
B.A., Haverford College, 1972
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1975
Ph.D., ibid., 1981

Courses Taught:
PHIL 447: Computer Power and Human Reason
PHIL 520: Existentialism
PHIL 580: Modern Philosophy Decartes to Kant
PHIL 616: 19th Century Philosophy
PHIL 618: 20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy

Fields of Research: 
philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology, history of philosophy

R. Valentine Dusek

Professor of Philosophy

45 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3076
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: Valdusek@aol.com

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Yale University, 1963
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1972

Courses Taught:
PHIL 424: Science, Technology, and Society
PHIL 435: Human Nature and Evolution
PHIL 444: Remaking Nature/Ethics and Politics
PHIL 616: 19th Century Philosophy
PHIL 780: Special Topics/Social Construction
HUMA 514: 20th Century, 1900-1945

Fields of Research: 
science and philosophy

David Hiley

Professor of Philosophy

27 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1040
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: david.hiley@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Auburn University, 1966
M.A., University of Georgia, 1969
Ph.D., ibid., 1972

Courses Taught:
PHIL 430: Society and Morals
PHIL 444: Honors/ Remaking Nature/ Ethics
PHIL 580: Modern Philosophy Decartes to Kant
PHIL 780: Special Topics
HUMA 510: Culture of Greece and Rome
HUMA 515: 20th Century, 1945-1999

Fields of Research: 
political theory, ethics, history of philosophy

Paul McNamara

Associate Professor of Philosophy

14 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4215
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: paulm@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., City College of New York, 1976
M.A., University of Missouri at Columbia, 1980
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1990

Courses Taught:
PHIL 447: Computer Power & Human Reason
PHIL 530: Moral Philosophy
PHIL 550: Symbolic Logic
PHIL 560: Philosophy through Literature
PHIL 701: Topics in Value Theory

Fields of Research: 
deontic logic, ethical theory, philosophy of moral language

Ruth Sample

Associate Professor of Philosophy

29A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3074
Fax: (603) 8620-4214
E-mail: rjsample@cisunix.unh.edu 

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Oberlin College, 1986
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1995
Ph.D., ibid., 1995

Courses Taught:
PHIL 401: General Intro to Philosophy
PHIL 436: Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 530: Moral Philosophy
PHIL 580: Modern Philosophy Descartes to Kant

Fields of Research: 
Early Modern philosophy, ethics, social and political philosophy, feminism

Robert Scharff

Professor of Philosophy

Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1040
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: robert.scharff@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
A.B., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1961
M.A., Northwestern University, 1965
Ph.D., ibid., 1970

Courses Taught:
PHIL 401: General Intro to Philosophy
PHIL 424: Science, Technology, and Morals
PHIL 620: 20th Century European Philosophy
PHIL 702: Top/ Metaphysics & Epistemology

Fields of Research: 
topics in 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy (especially Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, hermeneutics of science), the history of positivism (especially Comte, Mill, and the connection between classical positivism and post-positivist developments in recent analytic philosophy), the philosophy of technology

Nick Smith

Associate Professor of Philosophy 

30 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1329
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: nick.smith@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Education:
B.A., Vassar College, 1994
J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997
Ph.D, Vanderbilt University, 2002

Courses Taught:
PHIL 421: Philosophy and the Arts
PHIL 620: 20th Century European Philosophy
PHIL 660: Law, Medicine, and Morals
PHIL 740: Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Law/Commodification in Law
PHIL 780: Special Topics/Marx and his Critics
JS 830: Theories of Justice
JS 965: Philosophy of Punishment
PHP 908: Public Health Ethics

Fields of Research: 
apologies and forgiveness; philosophy of law, politics, and society, particularly as considered through contemporary continental philosophy; aesthetics

Timm Triplett

Associate Professor of Philosophy

13 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3073
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: tat@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Antioch College, 1972
M.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1980
Ph.D., ibid., 1982

Courses Taught:
PHIL 401: General Intro to Philosophy
PHIL 430: Society and Morals
PHIL 500: Workshop
PHIL 520: Intro to Eastern Philosophy
PHIL618: 20th Century Anglo American Philosophy

Fields of Research: 
contemporary epistemology, especially the foundationalist/coherentist dispute

Duane Whittier

Professor of Philosophy

46 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3075
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: duanew@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1950
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1952
Ph.D., ibid., 1961

Courses Taught:
PHIL 401: General Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 417: Philosophical Reflections on Religion
PHIL 421: Philosophy and the Arts
PHIL 500: Workshop
PHIL 702: Top/ Metaphysics & Epistemology

Fields of Research: 
agent causality, the mind-body problem, and the nature of time

Charlotte Witt

Professor of Philosophy and Humanities

31 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1040
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: cewitt@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1975
M.A., Georgetown University, 1978
Ph.D., ibid., 1980

Courses Taught:
PHIL 500: Workshop
PHIL 570: Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 780: Special Topics/Topics in Ancient Philosophy
HUMA 510: Ancient World
HUMA 511: Medieval World: Interdisciplinary Intro
HUMA 513: Modern World

Fields of Research: 
ancient and medieval philosophy, feminism

Alexis Roberson

Administrative Assistant

27 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1040
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: alexis.roberson@unh.edu