Philosophy Faculty and Staff

Faculty:

Michael Berman – Associate Professor (B.A. University of Binghamton, Ph.D. University at Buffalo) specializes in Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna, as well as Comparative Philosophy
Office: Room 273 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3317
E-mail: mberman@brocku.ca
Office hours: Thursday 9:30 - 11 am or by appointment

Richard S. G. Brown - Associate Professor (B.A. Brock; M.A., Ph.D. McMaster) works mainly on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard as well as Indian Philosophy
Office: Room 280 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3737
E-mail: rbrown@brocku.ca
Office hours: Monday and Friday 2 - 3 pm or by appointment

Wing-Cheuk Chan - Professor (M.A. Hong Kong; Ph.D. Ottawa) specializes in Husserl and Heidegger as well as in Chinese Philosophy and Yogacara Buddhism
Office: Room 270 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3716
E-mail: wchan@brocku.ca
Office hours: Thursday 1:30 - 2:30 pm or by appointment

Athena Colman – Assistant Professor (B.A. Windsor, M.A. Brock, Ph.D. University of Memphis) specializes in 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy (in particular Irigaray, Kristeva, and Merleau-Ponty) as well as Social and Political Philosophy and Feminist Theory.
Office: Room 282 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3323
E-mail: acolman@brocku.ca
Office Hours: Wednesday 3 - 6 pm or by appointment

Christine Daigle - Professor (B.A. Concordia, M.A. Université de Montréal, Doctoral studies Universitaet Salzburg, Ph.D. Université de Montréal) specializes in Continental Philosophy (specifically Existentialism).
Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence (2010-2013).
Office: Room 264 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3316/3315
E-mail: cdaigle@brocku.ca
Office Hours: On sabbatical leave from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2013

R.S. Dalvi - Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa) specializes in transformative philosophy (informed primarily by Recent French Philosophy, Classical Indian Philosophy and the Ancient Greek and Roman thought) and is also actively interested in questions of subjectivity, individualism and non-liberal political thinking.
Office: Room 284 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3547/3315
E-mail: rdalvi@brocku.ca
Office Hours: Wednesday 10:30 - 11:30 am or by appointment

Rajiv Kaushik - Associate Professor (Hons BA Toronto, MPhil Louvain, Ph.D. Essex) specializes in 20th Century French and German Phenomenology (especially Husserl, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur and Marion) as well as Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and Advaita Vedanta.
Office: Room 275 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 5311/3315
E-mail: rkaushik@brocku.ca
Office Hours: On sabbatical leave until June 30, 2013

Brian Lightbody- Associate Professor (B.A. McMaster (Hist), Hons. B.A. Brock, M.A. Brock, Ph.D Dominican University College) specializes in 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy (especially Philosophical Geneaology, Foucault and Nietzsche) and Epistemology
Office: Room 268 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Telephone: (905) 688-5550 extension 5313
Email: blightbody@brocku.ca
Office Hours: Tuesday 4 - 6 pm or by appointment

Murray L. Miles - Professor (B.A. Toronto; Dr. Phil. Freiburg) specializes in the areas of Modern Philosophy and Continental thought with emphasis on Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and Heidegger
Office: MCD350C
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 6080/3315
E-mail: mmiles@brocku.ca
Office Hours: By appointment only. E-mail mmiles@brocku.ca to schedule an appointment

R. Raj Singh - Professor (B.A., M.A., Punjab ; M.A. Brock ; Ph.D. Ottawa) specializes in the area of Heidegger, Hermeneutics, as well as in the philosophies of Vedanta and Buddhism
Office: Room 276 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 5311
Email: rsingh@brocku.ca
Office Hours:  By appointment only.

Instructors:

Calvin Hayes
Instructor for PHIL 2P03 D3: Early Modern Philosophy: The Empiricists
Office: Room 274 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3462
Email: chayes@brocku.ca
Office Hours: Wed 9:30 - 11 am and Thurs 10 - 11:30 am or by appointment

Thomas Mulligan
Instructor for PHIL 2P98 D3: Philosophy in Literature
Office: Taro 414, ext. 3904
Email: mulligan@brocku.ca
Office Hours: Mon 12:30 - 1:30 pm and Tues 2:30 - 3:30 pm or by appointment

Staff:

Frances Meffe - Administrative Assistant
Office: Room 263 at 573 Glenridge Avenue
Office Hours: Monday - Fridays: 8 am - 12 noon & 1 - 4 pm
Tel: 905-688-5550 extension 3315
Email: philosophy@brocku.ca

Liz Hay - Academic Advisor, Faculty of Humanities
Office: MC A 311
Phone: (905) 688-5550, ext. 5101
E-mail: lhay@brocku.ca
www.brocku.ca/humanities/advising

Professors Emeriti:

David L. Goicoechea, Ph.D. (Loyola, Chicago)
John R.A. Mayer, Ph.D. (Emory)