Faculty
Daniel Berthold
Franklin Bruno
Mary Clayton Coleman
William James Griffith
Garry L. Hagberg
Alan Sussman
Affiliated Faculty
Norton Batkin
Robert L. Martin
David Shein
Daniel Berthold
Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Yale University. Specialization in 19th-century continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, Freud, and environmental ethics. Author of Hegel’s Grand Synthesis and Hegel’s Theory of Madness. Articles and reviews in journals including Nous, Review of Metaphysics, Idealistic Studies, Clio, Man and World, International Studies in Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Ludus Vitalis, Religious Studies, Environmental Ethics, Social Theory and Practice, Metaphilosophy, History and Theory, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Human Ecology Review, Modern Language Notes, Philosophy and Literature. Contributor to The Dictionary of Existentialism. Editorial board, Topoi Library. Advisory Council, Hastings Center Program in Ethics, Science, and the Environment. Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Phone: 845-758-7280
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Franklin Bruno
Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Specializations in aesthetics and philosophy of language; subsidiary interests in political philosophy, contemporary poetics, and popular culture. Taught at UCLA, Pomona College, Northwestern University. Publications: "Representation and the Work-Performance Relation" (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism); "'Is That All There Is?" and "The Uses of Disenchantment" (Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, Duke U.P., 2007). Has also published a critical monograph on Elvis Costello's Armed Forces (Continuum Books), and music and art criticism in Village Voice, Slate, and The Believer. Bard College (2007- ).
Phone: 845-758-7270
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Mary Clayton Coleman
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Kenyon College; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Harvard University. Visiting lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Arizona. Specialization in moral philosophy, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind. Articles published in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Journal of Value Inquiry, Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Research supported by Harvard University, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities. (2002– )
Phone: 845-758-7210
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William James Griffith
Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Philosophy Program
A.B., cum laude, Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. NDEA Fellow. (1968– )
Phone: 845-758-7208
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Garry L. Hagberg
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon. Postdoctoral research, Cambridge University. Author, Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory and Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James and Literary Knowledge; contributions to Historical Reflections, Henry James Review, Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Mind, New Novel Review, Philosophical Quarterly, Ethics, Perspectives of New Music, Encyclopedia of the Essay, and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and grants: Dartmouth College; Cambridge University Library; British Library, London; St. John’s College, Cambridge University. (1990– )
Phone: 845-758-7270
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Alan Sussman
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., University of Chicago; J.D., L.L.M., New York University School of Law. Lawyer in private practice, specializing in civil rights. Coauthor, The Rights of Parents and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect: Guidelines for Legislation. Author, The Rights of Young People. Other publications include articles in New York University Law Review, Criminal Law Bulletin, Family Law Quarterly, Seton Hall Law Review, Politics & Culture, others. (1999– )
Phone: 845-679-6927
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Norton Batkin
Dean of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of Philosophy and Art History
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Director (1991–94, 2002–05) and director of the graduate program (1994–2007), Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture. Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, Yale University (1981–88); associate professor of humanities, Scripps College (1988–90). Assistant director, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University (1982–84); director, Scripps College Humanities Institute (1988–90). Publications include Photography and Philosophy (1990); “The Museum Exposed,” in Exhibited (Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, 1994); “Conceptualizing the History of the Contemporary Museum: On Foucault and Benjamin,” Philosophical Topics (1997); and other articles and reviews in the areas of philosophical aesthetics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of psychology. Art editor, Conjunctions. (1994– ) Associate Professor of Philosophy and Art History
Phone: 845-758-7598
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Robert L. Martin
Vice President for Academic Affairs; Director, Bard Conservatory of Music; Professor of Philosophy and Music
B.A., Haverford College; B.Music, Curtis Institute of Music; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University. Cellist, Sequoia String Quartet, 1975–85. President, Chamber Music America (1999–2005); coartistic director, Bard Music Festival. Publications include The Beethoven Quartet Companion, Recent Essays on Truth and the Liar Paradox, The Paradox of the Liar (editor and contributor), and articles and reviews in The Philosophical Review, Journal of Philosophical Logic, and Journal of Philosophy. (1994– )
Phone: 845-758-7419
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David Shein
Assistant Dean of the College & Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A., State University of New York at Oswego; M.Phil., Graduate Center, City University of New York; Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY. Has taught at Lehman College. Areas of interest: realism and antirealism, relativism, metaphysics, and epistemology. Developed Bard's Academic Services Center and Disability Services. Numerous presentations at professional conferences(2005– ).
Phone: 845-758-7454
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