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About Janet Broughton
- Janet Broughton is Professor of Philosophy and Vice Provost for the Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Her academic research focuses on early modern philosophy, in particular that of David Hume and René Descartes.Broughton attended Mount Holyoke College for a year, but interrupted her formal education to join the VISTA program, where she worked on community programs for preschoolers and teenagers in Houston's Third Ward.
- Following that she worked as a programmer and announcer for a classical music show on WRVR (now WLTW) in New York City.
- She returned to school and earned her B.A.
- in philosophy at the University of California, Davis.
- Broughton earned her Ph.D.
- in philosophy at Princeton University with a dissertation on Descartes’ theory of causation.Broughton’s first academic position in philosophy was at Harvard University.
- She moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 1979 and served as departmental chair for 5 years.
- In 2006, she was appointed Dean of the Arts and Humanities division of Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science in 2006.
- In 2010 she was appointed Vice Provost for the Faculty.
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