Union Alumni in Philosophy

The following are some of the distinguished philosophers who received their undergraduate training at Union.

If we have inadvertently omitted your name, please contact us at philosophy@union.edu. We would be delighted to claim you as one of our own. Please also let us know if the details we've listed are inaccurate or incomplete.

Martin Benjamin

  • Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University
  • B.A., Union College, 1962; Ph.D., University of Chicago

To read Professor Benjamin’s reflections on his time at Union College and his subsequent career in philosophy, click here.

Chalmers Clark

  • Bioethics Fellow, Yale University
  • B.S., Union College; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center

Lesley Friedman

  • Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Lynchburg College,
  • B.A., Union College; Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo, 1993

Chris Keegan

  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Africana and Latino Studies, SUNY Oneonta
  • BA, Philosophy (Union), MAT English (Union), MA and PhD Philosophy (SUNY Buffalo)

Robert Meyers

  • Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany
  • B.A., Union College; Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo

Daniel Milsky

  • Assistant Professor of Environmental and Applied Ethics Northeastern Illinois University Dept. of Philosophy
  • B.A. Union College 1993, M.A. University of Illinois/Chicago 1996, Ph.D. University of Illinois/Chicago 2004

William Vitek

  • Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for the Environment, Clarkson University
  • B.A., Union College, 1979; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 1989