Current Faculty
Stavroula N. Glezakos
Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Office: B307 Tribble Hall
glezaksn@wfu.edu
Website
Stavroula Glezakos’ research and teaching focus on issues at the intersection of philosophy of language, ethics, and social philosophy. She has published in Linguistics and Philosophy, volumes with MIT and Oxford University Presses, and a special issue of the Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica dedicated to discussion of her paper “Can Frege Pose Frege’s Puzzle?” She is currently working on a coauthored book on the topic of consensual unwanted sex.
Emily Austin
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis, 2009
B.A. Hendrix College, Philosophy, 2000
Office: B303 Tribble Hall
austinea@wfu.edu
Website
Emily A. Austin is Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, specializing in Ancient Greek Philosophy. She is the author of Living for Pleasure: an Epicurean Guide to Life (Oxford University Press, 2022) and has published widely on Plato’s accounts of complex emotions, including grief, patriotism, comic malice, and the fear of death.
Adrian Bardon
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Philosophy, 1999
M.A. University of Washington, Philosophy, 1993
B.A. Reed College, Philosophy, 1992
Office: B308 Tribble Hall
bardona@wfu.edu
Adrian Bardon teaches courses in the philosophy of time, 17th-18th century European philosophy, Kant, philosophy and social psychology, and political philosophy. He is the author of two books with Oxford University Press: A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (2nd ed., 2024) and The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion (2020). He has published many scholarly articles on Kant, Hume, the history of philosophy, time and time perception, and several other subjects. He is the editor or co-editor of The Future of the Philosophy of Time (Routledge), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time (Wiley-Blackwell), and The Illusions of Time: Philosophical and Psychological Essays on Timing and Time Perception (Palgrave MacMillan). His work has been featured in many popular venues, including Scientific American, Vox, Salon, The Conversation, National Public Radio, NBC News, ABC News, Public Radio International, CNET, Radio New Zealand, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Krautreporter (Germany), ABC (Spain), The Tablet (UK), Filozofuj (Poland), and L’Espresso (Italy).
Amanda Corris
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, Philosophy and the Life Sciences
M.A., University of Cincinnati, Philosophy
M.A., University of Sussex (UK), Philosophy
B.A. (Honors), State University of New York at Albany, Philosophy
Office: B310 Tribble Hall
corrisa@wfu.edu
Amanda Corris is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. Her research and teaching interests center on the relationship between mind, life, and environment. Her recent work focuses on how living beings, as embodied agents, both shape and are shaped by their environments. She has taught courses in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and environmental ethics. Prior to joining Wake Forest in Fall 2022, she had a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, working on the John Templeton Foundation grant project “The creative role of stress in evolution and development”.
Jonathan Dixon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. UMass Amherst, Philosophy
M.A. Virginia Tech, Philosophy
B.A. California State University Long Beach, Philosophy
Office: B315 Tribble Hall
dixonj@wfu.edu
Website
Jonathan Dixon is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He researches mainly in Epistemology and where it intersects with Philosophy of Science and Ethics. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Ratio, Dialectica, Synthese, and Philosophical Psychology. In addition to introductory philosophy courses, he has taught courses in applied ethics (Business Ethics, Medical Ethics), his areas of specialization (Epistemology, Philosophy of Science), and Logic. Besides philosophy, he loves surfing and playing with his rambunctious children.
Tobias Flattery
Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
M.A., University of Notre Dame
B.A., Texas A & M University
Office: B304 Tribble Hall
flattet@wfu.edu
Website
Tobias Flattery joined the Department of Philosophy at Wake Forest University in 2023. Prior to that, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, and his B.A. in philosophy from Texas A&M University. He was also the Program Manager of the Honesty Project, a $4.4 million research project on the philosophy and psychology of honesty, headquartered here at Wake Forest University. Before turning to academia, he spent time working in the private technology sector as a data warehouse engineer and business intelligence developer/analyst.
His teaching and research is usually in the history of philosophy and philosophy of technology (broadly construed, but especially technology ethics), though he works in a few other areas as well.
Francisco Gallegos
Associate Professor and Zachary T. Smith Faculty Fellow
Ph.D. Georgetown University, Philosophy, 2017
B.A. University of New Mexico, Philosophy, 2007
Office: B311 Tribble Hall
336.758.3928
gallegft@wfu.edu
Francisco Gallegos teaches and writes on topics related to the politics of emotion, Latin American philosophy, and existential phenomenology. His book, The Disintegration of Community: The Social and Political Philosophy of Jorge Portilla, co-authored with Carlos Sánchez, was published by SUNY Press in 2020. His academic papers have appeared in journals such as Inquiry and Journal of Social Philosophy. Gallegos is editor of the “Affective Injustice” issue of Philosophical Topics (2023) and co-editor of Latinx Philosophy: An Anthology, forthcoming from Routledge. Together with Ivan Weiss, he directs the Truth and Authenticity Lab at Wake Forest University, where he has taught since 2018.
Alejandro Hortal
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. in Philosophy of Social Sciences, National University of Spain, UNED.
M.A. in Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid
B.A. in Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid
Office: B312 Tribble Hall
hortala@wfu.edu
Alejandro Hortal is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, where he specializes in the epistemological, ethical, and political foundations of public policy, as well as the role of behavioral economics in shaping policy interventions. He teaches various courses, including “Problems of Philosophy” and “Logic.” Currently, he is engaged in a book project that delves into a philosophical exploration of rational and irrational decision-making, along with the history of Behavioral Public Policy as a discipline. Alejandro has contributed numerous peer-reviewed articles to journals such as Behavioral Public Policy, Review of Behavioral Economics, Retos Economics and Administration Journal, Brazilian Journal of Public Policy, and Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. In his most recent publication, Alejandro examines the efforts made by behavioral public policy to combat gender violence. Additionally, he has researched and published on topics such as vaccine hesitancy and public policy, the gnoseology of behavioral economics, and the history of economic thought. Alejandro serves on the board of the International Behavioral Public Policy Association at the London School of Economics and currently acts as a guest editor for its journal. He is also a member of the Psichosociology of Gender Violence Research group at the Complutense University of Madrid. For the past few years, he has also been the coordinator for the Behavioral Public Policy and Evolutionary Behavioral Economics track at the summer school hosted by the Prague Center of Behavioral Experiments (Czechia).
Ana S. Iltis
Professor of Philosophy and Carlson Professor of University Studies
Ph.D., Rice University, 2002
B.A. and B.A. Honors (interdisciplinary arts and sciences degree), Villanova University, 1996
Office: B313 Tribble Hall
336.758.4254
iltisas@wfu.edu
Ana S. Iltis, PhD is Professor of Philosophy and Carlson Professor of University Studies. She currently serves as the Director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society and Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Bioethics, Humanities and Medicine. She also holds an appointment in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine. She has published widely in bioethics. Her scholarly focus is primarily on the ethical conduct of human research, including research involving children, first-in-human studies, mental health research, and risk in research decision-making. She also works on ethics and policy issues regarding organ transplantation and emerging biotechnologies. She is Founding Co-Editor of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (Johns Hopkins University Press), Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Oxford University Press), Associate Editor of Christian Bioethics (Oxford University Press), and co-editor of the Annals of Bioethics (Routledge) series. In addition to these roles, she remains active in bioethics public service and was President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities from 2019-2021. She earned her PhD in Philosophy at Rice University, where she had the privilege of studying with the late Professors Baruch Brody and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
Justin Jennings
Associate Teaching Professor and Scott Family Faculty Fellow
Ph.D., UCLA
M.A., UCLA
M.Div., Harvard
B.A., Wake Forest
Office: B302 Tribble Hall
jenninjg@wfu.edu
Justin Jennings teaches the history of western philosophy, especially Ancient, Early Modern, Kant, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, contemporary analytic ethics and metaethics, and social and political philosophy. His research interests range over these and other areas, including the philosophy of the social sciences, social and political theory, environmental ethics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of religion, and the early and later Wittgenstein.
Adam Kadlac
Teaching Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2007
M.A., University of Virginia, 2006
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
Office: B314 Tribble Hall
kadlacaj@wfu.edu
Website
Adam Kadlac is Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. His teaching and research center on ethics and political philosophy, and he regularly offers classes in applied ethics and the core areas of value theory. He is co-director of Wake Forest’s newly formed Disability Studies Initiative, and his first book, The Ethics of Sports Fandom, was published by Routledge in 2022.
Win-chiat Lee
Reynolds Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1986
B.A., Cornell University, 1978
Office: B305 Tribble Hall
Phone: 336.758.5772
leew@wfu.edu
Win-chiat Lee is Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He joined the Philosophy Department in 1983 as Instructor. He served a total of 17 years as Department Chair, first from 1992 to 2000, and then from 2012 to 2021. His research focuses on philosophy of law and political philosophy, with publications on a variety of topics including counterfactual legislative intent, Dworkin’s theory of law, immigration, global justice, universal jurisdiction, and human rights. He is currently working on a theory of international criminal law. Lee has a broad interest in teaching, including a survey course in Chinese Philosophy and a First-year Seminar comparing ancient Greek and Chinese ethics. Lee is active in the professional organization, AMINTAPHIL (American Association of Legal and Social Philosophy) for many years, currently serving as its Executive Director. He has also served in various positions as officers, including the President of the organization, and is the co-editor of two of the volumes in its book series.
Christian B. Miller
A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, Philosophy, 2004
B.A. Princeton University, Philosophy, 1999
B315 Tribble Hall
336.758.3564
millerc@wfu.edu
Website
Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He was recently the Director of the Honesty Project funded by a $4.4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. He is the author of over 120 academic papers as well as Moral Psychology with Cambridge University Press (2021) and four books with Oxford University Press, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), Character and Moral Psychology (2014), The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017), and Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue (2021). He is a science contributor for Forbes, and his writings have also appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, The Conversation Newsweek, Aeon, and Christianity Today. Miller is the editor or co-editor of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (OUP), Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (OUP), Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character (MIT Press), Integrity, Honesty, and Truth Seeking (OUP), and The Continuum Companion to Ethics (Continuum Press).
Matthew Shields
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Georgetown University, Philosophy
M.A., Georgetown University, Philosophy
B.A., Yale University, Humanities
Office: B309 Tribble Hall
shieldm@wfu.edu
Website
Matt Shields teaches and works on epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphilosophy. He also has interests in the history of twentieth-century philosophy (especially the history of pragmatism), among other areas. His current research explores what it takes to count as a genuine inquirer and the conditions under which we can fail to inquire despite taking ourselves to do so. He has written on truth, conceptual change and conceptual engineering, disagreement, the relationship between politics and inquiry, and conspiracy theories. You can read more about his work here: https://sites.google.com/view/matthew-shields/home.
Patrick Toner
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Virginia
B.A. and M.A., Franciscan University of Steubenville
Office: B312 Tribble Hall
tonerpj@wfu.edu
Patrick Toner works on a relatively wide range of philosophical topics, including Metaphysics, the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Distributism, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Killing. He teaches classes in those areas, as well as a class on the philosophy of food.