Department of Philosophy

Office:  B3-206 Mackinac Hall; Allendale Campus

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Phone: (616) 331-2929 (voicemail)

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Ronald Loeffler earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Northwestern University in 2001.  He also holds M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the University of London (King’s College) and the Free University Berlin.

His main research interests are in the philosophy of language and mind (especially semantic inferentialism, belief, assertion, and mindreading) and Wilfrid Sellars’ practical philosophy (especially his ethics).  He is the author of Brandom, an introductory monography on the philosophy of Robert Brandom, (Polity Press 2019), and the co-editor of two volumes on Sellars practical philosophy: Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency (Routledge 2023) and Collective Intentionality, Normativity, and the Space of Reasons (Springer, forthcoming). Moreover, he has published in the journals Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Erkenntnis, and the European Journal of Philosophy, among other. 

Before joining the faculty at GVSU in 2004, Ronald Loeffler taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Carleton College, MN.