Past Faculty of the Pomona Philosophy Department

W. T. Jones
Member of the Philosophy Department at Pomona College 1938-1972
Member of the Philosophy Department at Caltech 1972-1986
Member of the Board of Trustees of Pomona College 1972-1982
Emeritus trustee of Pomona College 1982-1998
Author of many books and articles including the five volume History of Western Philosophy

Fred Sontag
Member of the Philosophy Department at Pomona College 1952-2009
Author of over 20 books including Existentialist Prolegomena: To a Future Metaphysics and Truth and Imagination.

Morton O. Beckner
Member of the Philosophy Department at Pomona College 1958-1990
While at Columbia he won the University's "best thesis" prize of his year, which was subsequently published as The Biological Way of Thought.

Robert Fogelin
Member of the Philosophy Department at Pomona College 1960-1964
Currently Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College
Author of numerous books including Taking Wittgenstein at His Word and Hume's Skeptical Crisis.

Tom Hill
Member of the Philosophy Department at Pomona College 1966-1968
Currently Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Author of numerous books including Virtue, Rules, and Justice: Kantian Aspirations and Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory.

Jay Atlas
Member of the Philosophy Department at Pomona College 1972-2014
Author of numerous articles in philosophy of language and two books: Logic, Meaning, and Conversation and Philosophy Without Ambiguity.

Hilary Bok
Member of the Philosophy Department at Pomona College 1991-2000
Currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University
Author of several articles as well as Freedom and Responsibility.

Paul Hurley
Member of the faculty at Pomona College 1994-2002
Currently Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College
Author of several articles and Beyond Consequentialism.

Jennifer Lackey
Member of the Philosophy Department at Pomona College 2000-2003
Currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University
Author of many articles, editor of many books, and author of Testimony as a Source of Knowledge.