Full Time Faculty bring the study of philosophy to a widely diverse and heterogeneous student body such as Hunter's and conduct philosophical research and scholarly writing to extend with innovation knowledge in the field.

Professors Emerita are faculty who are still scholarly active in the field, though they no longer teach in the department.

Adjunct Faculty, consisting of Adjunct Professors, Adjunct Associate Professors, Adjunct Assistant Professors, Graduate Assistant "A's", Graduate Assistant "B's", and Adjunct Instructors, sustain the learning experience of Hunter's students. They teach courses, which cannot be covered by full-time faculty in a given semester, or which are not within the specialization and competence of full-time faculty.