Area of Expertise: Philosophy
Battaly, Heather D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Logic
- reasoning
- critical thinking
- theory of knowledge (epistemology)
- ethics
Coplan, Amy
Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Ancient Greek philosophy and culture
- History of philosophy
- Contemporary ethics and moral psychology
- Philosophy and film (especially issues relating to the ethics of film representations and the psychology of the film viewer)
Heiner, Brady
Executive Director, Project Rebound at CSUF; Chair, CSU Project Rebound Consortium
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Prisons
- Higher education in prison
- Mass incarceration
- Policing
- Public safety
- Prisoner reentry
- Racism
Howat, Andrew W.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Truth
- Knowledge
- Reality
- Public/Political Discourse & Debate
- Reason vs. Emotion
- Logic & Critical Thinking
Ihara, Craig K.
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Confucian and Buddhist ethics
- Taoist philosophy
- Asian-American studies
- Japanese-American internment
Liu, JeeLoo
Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Chinese philosophy
- Philosophy of mind
- Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of time
- Moral psychology
- Moral sentimentalism
Nichols, Ryan T.
Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Science Fiction
- Scottish Thought
- Capitalism
- Perception
Russell, J. Michael
Chair and Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Knowledge
- Various philosophers
- Existentialism
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychotherapy
- Philosophical counseling
Sheehan, Rebecca A.
Professor of Cinema and Television Arts
Areas of Knowledge
- American Avant-Garde Cinema
- Sculpture and Cinema
- Film and Philosophy
- Border Cinema
- Early American and German Cinema
- Experimental Cinema and Modernist Poetics
