GIOVANNI GRANDI
Assistant Professor, PHILOSOPHY

giovanni.grandi@ubc.ca
ART230
250.807.8605

BA University of Bologna, Italy
PhD University of Western Ontario

RESEARCH: early modern philosophy

TEACHING: early modern philosophy; logic and critical thinking; metaphysics

ANDREW IRVINE
            Professor, PHILOSOPHY

WEBSITE

            andrew.irvine@ubc.ca
ART 266
            

PhD University of Sydney
           

RESEARCH: Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Law

TEACHING: Introductions to Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Law

JIM ROBINSON
Associate Professor, PHILOSOPHY
Acting Unit 8 Head


jim.robinson@ubc.ca
ASC 452
250.807.9410

PhD University of Waterloo

RESEARCH: moral theory; applied ethics; Plato

TEACHING: ethics; ancient Greek philosophy

DAN RYDER
Assistant Professor, PHILOSOPHY

WEBSITE 

dan.ryder@ubc.ca
ART315
250.807.9646

MA University of Calgary
PhD University of North Carolina

RESEARCH: philosophy of mind and cognitive science (esp. intentionality, mental representation & consciousness); theoretical neuroscience (esp. learning in cerebral cortex); metaphysics (esp. dispositions); philosophy of science.

TEACHING: philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology; critical thinking; biomedical ethics

ROGER SHINER
Adjunct and Visiting Professor, PHILOSOPHY

roger.shiner@ubc.ca
ART168
250-807-9407

PhD University of Cambridge, UK

RESEARCH: criminalization of corporate wrongdoing; media corporations; communication rights; freedom of expression

TEACHING: philosophy of law; social and political philosophy; computer ethics

MANUELA UNGUREANU
Associate Professor, PHILOSOPHY

manuela.ungureanu@ubc.ca
ART236
250.807.9375

BA University of Bucharest
PhD McGill University

RESEARCH: epistemology (theory of knowledge); philosophy of language; philosophy of social sciences; research elaborates on the distinction-central to cognitive psychology, cultural anthropology, history- between oral and literate societies, and on a related interpretation of literacy as a technology initiating a specific conception of language

TEACHING: philosophy of mind and language; epistemology; philosophy of social sciences; literacy studies

PIOTR WRZESNIEWSKI
Associate Professor, PHILOSOPHY

piotr.wrzesniewski@ubc.ca
ART234
250.807.9334

MA Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
PhD Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

RESEARCH: philosophy of science and philosophy of information; analysis, development, and modification of theoretical concepts

TEACHING: symbolic logic; philosophy of science; philosophy of history; critical thinking