Philosophy Faculty

Ronald Hustwit - Professor of Philosophy
(330) 263-2485 / rhustwit@wooster.edu

B.A. Westminster 1964; M.A. Nebraska 1965; Ph.D. Texas 1970.

Ronald Earl Hustwit is a professor of philosophy and former chair of the department at The College of Wooster, where he joined the faculty in 1967.

A graduate of Westminster College (1964), Hustwit earned his M.A. from the University of Nebraska (1965) and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas (1970). His teaching responsibilities include ancient philosophy, logic, philosophy of mind, education and religion.

Hustwit is the author of Something About O.K. Bouwsma, An AnnotatedBibliography of Bouwsma’s works, and an Index of The BouwsmaCollection at The Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas.  He has edited five works of O.K. Bouwsma’s papers: “Toward a New Sensibility,” “Without Proof or Evidence,” “Wittgenstein Conversations,” “Bouwsma’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy” and “Bouwsma’s Commonplace Book.” More recently he edited and introduced a book on Alburey Castell’s writings on education, titled, Who Needs a Liberal Arts Education. He continually adds to commentary on Wittgenstein’s philosophical investigations, which is currently published from his desktop. He also has articles and papers on Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and Cardinal Newman.  

Hustwit is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Ohio Philosophical Association, the Austrian Wittgenstein Society, and the Søren Kierkegaard Society.

Henry B. Kreuzman - Associate Professor of Philosophy
(330) 263-2481 / hkreuzman@wooster.edu

B.S. Xavier 1981; M.A., Ph.D. Notre Dame 1984, 1990.

Henry B. Kreuzman III is an associate professor of philosophy and chair of the department at The College of Wooster, where he joined the faculty in 1990. He also serves at the chair of Wooster’s Pre-Law Advising Program. He has expertise in the philosophy of science, epistemology, and philosophy of law. His current research focuses upon the history and philosophy of 18th century medicine and childbed fever.

A recipient of an Andrew Mellon Grant to study the history of science, Kreuzman is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Philosophy of Science Association, and the History of Science Society. While on Research Leave at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, he focused upon the changes in medical science in the 18th century.

Lee A. McBride III - Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(330) 263-2548 / lmcbride@wooster.edu

B.A. St. Mary’s, California 1997; M.A. Claremont 1999; Ph.D. Purdue 2006.

Lee A. McBride is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at The College of Wooster where he joined the faculty in 2006. He specializes in American philosophy and social and political philosophy. Further interests include the philosophy of race and gender, environmental ethics, continental philosophy, and ancient philosophy. His current research focuses on pragmatist and contextualist conceptions of ethics and the role of education/habituation and collaborative inquiry in contemporary fallibilist social and political philosophies.

McBride earned his B.A. from St. Mary’s College (1997) and M.A. from Claremont (1999) before earning his Ph.D. from Purdue (2006). Before coming to Wooster, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2005-2006) and an Irvine Foundation Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellow at Saint Mary’s College of California (2004-2005).

He presented papers at both the Central Division APA Meeting in Chicago and the Pacific APA Meeting in San Francisco. His paper, “Collectivistic Individualism: Dewey and MacIntyre,” was published in Contemporary Pragmatism in 2006.

Andrea Patterson - Visiting Instructor in Philosophy
(330) 263-2389 / apatterson@wooster.edu

B.A. Moorhead State 1995; M.A. Rochester 2001; Rochester.

Andrea Patterson is a Visiting Instructor in Philosophy at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 2007.  She specializes in the philosophy of language and epistemology, as well as the history of modern philosophy (especially Berkeley), and metaphysics.

Patterson earned a B.A. from Moorhead State University (1995) and M.A. from the University of Rochester (2001).

Prior to joining the Wooster faculty, she taught at Rochester Institute of Technology and at Minnesota State University Moorhead. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Rochester, and her current research focuses on determining what sorts of experiences and conditions are required to have a thought about a particular object.

Patterson is a member of the American Philosophical Association.

John Rudisill - Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(330) 263-2353 / jrudisill@wooster.edu

B.A. Coe 1991; Ph.D. Iowa 2001.

John Rudisill is an assistant professor of philosophy at The College of Wooster. He joined the faculty in 2005 after having served as visiting assistant professor of philosophy at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His areas of specialization are social and political philosophy and theoretical ethics. His teaching interests include issues in the philosophy of race and gender, philosophy and literature, and the history of modern philosophy. .

Rudisill earned his B.A. in philosophy and English from Coe College (1991) cum laude and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (2001). In his published writings, he has compared the role of neutrality in the political theories of J.S. Mill and John Rawls and defended a return to a substantive model of liberal theory over recently popular proceduralist approaches.

Rudisill’s current research focuses on the problem of political legitimacy and justification in an increasingly multicultural and globalized world, and a critical analysis of various approaches offered as an alternative to liberalism.

Elizabeth Schiltz - Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(330) 263-2289 / eschiltz@wooster.edu

B.A. Ohio Wesleyan 1993; Ph.D. Duke 2000.

Specializes in the history of philosophy with a particular interest in ancient philosophy, East - West comparative philosophy, and ethics. She teaches courses in continental philosophy, Indian Philosophy, and rationalism/empiricism. Her most recent research focuses on the parallels between Greek philosophy and Indian philosophy.

Garrett Thomson - Compton Professor of Philosophy
(330) 263-2494 / gthomson@wooster.edu

B.A. Newcastle on Tyne (England) 1978; Ph.D. Oxford, Balliol College (England) 1984.

Garrett Thomson is the Compton Professor of Philosophy at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 1994. His areas of expertise include moral philosophy, modern philosophy, philosophy of the mind, and theories of development.

Thomson received his B.A. from Newcastle on Tyne University in England (1978). He went on to earn his Ph.D. from Balliol College of Oxford University in England (1984).

The author of Needs and Bacon to Kant, as well as several scholarly articles on Kant, ethics, and the philosophy of the mind, Thomson also published books titled On Kant, On Descartes, On Locke and On Leibniz. He has co-authored On Aristotle and co-edited the six-volume The Longman Standard History of Philosophy. Other recent works include Una Introduccion a la Practica de la Filosofia, On Philosophy and On the Meaning of Life.