Syliane Charles (Malinowski-Charles) specializes in early modern philosophy, particularly in Spinoza.  She received an M.A. from the Université de Nancy in France, where she was born, and a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa (2002).  After postdoctoral research fellowships at the Université de Montréal and at Princeton University, she was hired as Assistant Professor by Temple University in 2005.  Since 2007 she has come back to teach at the Université de Sherbrooke and at Bishop’s, where she is presently a full-time sessional.

Claude Charpentier studied psychology and philosophy at Bishop's University before undertaking graduate work at the University of Edinburgh. The subject of her doctoral dissertation was the shared social attitudes and patterns of thought associated with radical utilitarians and fellow reformers John Stuart Mill and Alexander Bain. She currently teaches in both the Psychology and the Philosophy Departments.

Jamie Crooks studied music at Mount Allison University before undertaking graduate work in philosophy at the University of Toronto. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1990 with a dissertation on Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche. He has been chair of the Philosophy Department since 1994. Professor Crooks is also conductor of the Bishop's University Singers and has worked regularly with the Drama department over the past four years on musical theatre projects.

Don Dombowsky came to Bishop's in 2003 after graduate study at the University of Ottawa and the New School for Social Research. He has taught a range of introductory and seminar courses for both the Philosophy and the Liberal Arts programs on selected topics in the history of philosophy, politics and art.

Paul Leonard Gallina is a Professor in the Williams School of Business and has a diverse record of professional engagement and academic achievement. Before coming to Bishop's he worked for 15 years at the Ontario Ministry of Labour implementing reforms to occupational health and  to workers' compensation. Among his academic credentials are a Master of Laws (with Distinction) from the Graduate Faculty of Law at the University of Leicester, and a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Guelph.

In philosophy Dr. Gallina has ongoing interests in social and political philosophy, applied ethics, and the philosophy of law.   He teaches a course in Professional and Business Ethics.

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Dr. Gilbert has a Ph. D from the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, which was preceded by a Bachelors Degree in History from the University of Toronto, a Diploma in Education and Pastoral Care from the Centre for Christian Studies, and a Masters in Religious Studies from McGill University. He has a cross appointment at Bishop’s, teaching in both the Department of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts Program.   Dr. Gilbert’s research, most broadly speaking, is based in dialectical political philosophy.  If dialectic names the process by which humanity learns, then freedom is not merely choice, but is rather our capacity to develop increasingly sophisticated forms of relationship with each other and our environment.  His recent monograph, The Vitality of Contradiction: Hegel, Politics and the Dialectic of Liberal-Capitalism, articulates the philosophical arguments for this view of dialectic and freedom.  Dr. Gilbert also engages in empirical research on this topic, focussing especially on the Movement of Landless Rural Workers of Brazil (MST), a large and very successful social movement which seizes under-utilized estates and builds self-sufficient farming cooperatives on them.  The MST now has some 1.5 million members and its own university near São Paulo.

Dale Stout began his undergraduate study in physical education at the University of Alberta. He subsequently switched to psychology and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh with a dissertation on the history of statistics. In addition to his continuing work in philosophy, he is chair of the Psychology Department. He is a recent recipient of the William and Nancy Turner Award for Teaching (2003).

Harvey White began as a student of mathematics at the University of Minnesota. Subsequently, he received his B.D. and M.A. in religion from Princeton. His doctorate is from McGill. A longtime chair of the Religion Department, he is the 2007 recipient of the William and Nancy Turner Award for Teaching.

George Englebretsen (retired) did both undergraduate and graduate work in Nebraska prior to taking up an appointment at Bishop's University in the late 1960's. Since that time, the core of his work in eight books and well over one hundred articles has been development of a new system of logic. His philosophical interests, however, range over the entire history of philosophy. He retired in 2007 but continues teaching and research as if he hadn't.