Faculty

Philosophy faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi come from all over the world and have a wide range of research and teaching interests. You will find biographies, course listings, research and publications, and contact information on each faculty member's profile.

Kevin Coffey, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Global Network Associate Professor of Philosophy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kevin.coffey@nyu.edu
Education: BA, University of Virginia; PhD, University of Michigan

Research Interests: philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
Oren Hanner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: oren.hanner@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Hamburg

Research Interests: Buddhist Philosophy (Indian and Tibetan); History of Indian Philosophy; Ethics; Action Theory
Taneli Kukkonen, Professor of Philosophy; Global Network Professor of Philosophy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ktk4@nyu.edu
Education: MTh, MA, and DTh, University of Helsinki

Research Interests: classical Arabic philosophy, Aristotle, Plato
Jonathan Kwan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jonathan.kwan@nyu.edu
Education: BA Swarthmore College; PhD The Graduate Center, CUNY

Research Interests: Social and political philosophy, environmental philosophy, decolonial philosophy, philosophy of race...
Sarah Paul, Professor of Philosophy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: skp5@nyu.edu
Education: BA Carleton College; PhD Stanford University

Research Interests: philosophy of action, philosophy of mind
Gabriel Rabin, Program Head, Philosophy; Associate Professor of Philosophy; Global Network Associate Professor of Philosophy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gabriel.oak.rabin@nyu.edu
Education: BA Columbia University; PhD University of California Los Angeles

Research Interests: philosophy of mind, metaphysics
Matthew Silverstein, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Global Network Associate Professor of Philosophy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: matthew.silverstein@nyu.edu
Education: BA, Amherst College; BPhil, University of Oxford; PhD, University of Michigan

Research Interests: foundations of ethics, normative ethics, the philosophy of action, political philosophy, early moder...

Past Affiliate and Visiting Faculty

Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind; Foundations of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Paul Boghossian, Silver Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language; Aesthetics

Ruth Chang, Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Research Interests: Ethics; Metaethics; Moral Psychology; Philosophy of Action; Philosophy of Law

Kit Fine, University Professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics; Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Metaphysics; Logic; Philosophy of Language

Richard Foley, Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Epistemology; Rationality

Don Garrett, Silver Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Early Modern European Philosophy

Paul Horwich, Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Reseach Interests: Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Science; Metaphilosophy; Epistemology; Wittgenstein

Béatrice Longuenesse, Silver Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Kant; Hegel; Modern European Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind

Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Foundations of Physics; Metaphysics; Logic

James Pryor, Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Epistemology; Perception; Metaphysics

John Richardson, Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Philosophy; Existentialism; Phenomenology; Nietzsche; Heidegger

Stephen Schiffer, Silver Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU New York
Research Interests: Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics
Nishi Shah, Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: Amherst College
Research Interests: Ethics; Metaethics; Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind

Jenny Hung, Visiting Assistant Professor
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Research Interests: Chinese Philosophy, Buddhism, Philosophy of Mind

Books

To be clear-headed rather than confused; lucid rather than obscure; rational rather than otherwise; and to be neither more, nor less, sure of things than is justifiable by argument or evidence. That is worth trying for.

Geoffrey Warnock