Amanda Brovold Email

Office: H&SS 7089
B.A. Philosophy and English, Florida International University

Teaching Winter 2013 (Phil 10)

Brovold is interested in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, cognitive science, and especially how insights from those areas can inform and improve our education theory and policy.

Eric Campbell Email

Office: H&SS 8056
B.A. Psychology and Life Sciences, UT Austin

Teaching Winter 2013 (Phil 1) / Spring 2013 (Phil 13)

Campbell is interested in philosophical interpretations of scientific discoveries, how we can and should think about our values in the context of a materialist scientific worldview, especially in the light of evolution and the continual advances in psychology and neuroscience. 

Joyce Havstad Email

Office: H&SS 7055
B.A. Philosophy of Life Science, UC San Diego
M.A. Philosophy, San Diego State University

Teaching Spring 2013 (Phil 164)

Ms. Havstad specializes in the history and philosophy of biology, the philosophy of science, biomedical ethics, environmental ethics, feminism, and non-traditional aesthetics. She is currently working on her dissertation, a project in the history and philosophy of molecular biology.

Yuji Kurihara Email

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Tokyo Gagukei University 
Faculty Sponsor: Georgios Anagnostopoulos

Here September 2012 - February 2013

Dr. Yuji Kurihara is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tokyo Gagukei University.  He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, specializing in ancient philosophy and ethics.  He has written a number of articles in Japanese and English on Plato's epistemology and ethics.  He is presently working on a book on Plato's views on the good.  He will be a Visiting Scholar in the Department for Fall and Winter Quarters.

Per Milam Email

Office: H&SS 7093
B.A. Philosophy, Pomona College

Teaching Fall 2012 (Phil 1)

Mr. Milam's current research focuses on free will and the reactive attitudes. His main philosophical interests are in philosophy of action (free will, moral responsibility, agency, etc), moral psychology, and applied ethics (especially global poverty and animal welfare). He is currently part of a interdisciplinary group of psychologists and philosophers at UCSD studying the nature and effects of forgiveness.  

Oliver Pooley Email

Professor of Philosophy
OxfordUniversity
Faculty Sponsor: Craig Callender

Here September 2012 - June 2013

Oliver Pooley is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford.  He works in the philosophy of physics and in metaphysics, focusing on the nature of space, time and space-time.  He will be a Visiting Scholar in the Department through the entire academic year 2012-13.  More about him can be found at: http://www.oliverpooley.org.

Theron Pummer Email Web  

Office: H&SS 7093
B.S., Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience, George Washington University (2006)
M.A., Philosophy, UCSD (2010)
Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, UCSD (2010)

Teaching Winter 2013 (Phil 13)

Mr. Pummer is primarily interested in ethics, theoretical and applied. In his dissertation, he examines competing principles governing the distribution of benefits across individuals, and attempts to locate the least implausible principle in this area of ethics.

Daniel Schwartz Email

Office: H&SS 8073
B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College Annapolis

Mr. Schwart is interested in early modern philosophy of science and in the history of philosophy more generally. Topics of special interest include: Baconian induction and its implementation in the scientific commuity, Whewell's revival of the Baconian project and his debate with Mill, Kant's philosophy of science, and Aristotle's philosophy of science. He is working on a dissertation on Bacon's theory of induction as it relates to the certainty of science.

Adam Streed Email

Office: H&SS 7055
B.A. Philosophy and PNP, Washington University

Teaching Winter 2013 (Phil 12)

Ph.D. Candidate, UCSD (2008). He is interested in philosophy of mind, logic, and ethics. Currently he is trying to integrate those interests in a dissertation on normativity in logic and reasoning.

Michael Tiboris Email

Office: H&SS 8046
B.A. Philosophy and Political Science, University of Wisconsin Madison
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California San Diego

Teaching Fall 2011 (Phil 1) / Spring 2012 (Phill 15)

Tiboris specializes in ethics, moral psychology, law, and education. His research examines the concepts of autonomy, and diminished responsibility, particularly with respect to children. His current research is funded by a grant from the Spencer Foundation's Initiative on Philosophy in Educational Policy and Practice.

Lena Kaestner

Home Institution: Ruhr University-Bochum, Germany
Faculty Sponsor: Bill Bechtel

Here Spring Quarter 2013

Riin Koiv

Home Institution: University of Tartu, Estonia
Faculty Sponsor: Rick Grush

Here November 1st 2012 - April 1st 2013

Vassiliki Nasiopoulous

Home Institution: University of Leeds, UK
Faculty Sponsor: Christian Wuthrich

Here Late Juanuary 2013 - Late June 2013

Zhen Wang Email

Home Institution: Beijing University
Faculty Sponsor: Georgios Anagnostopoulos

Here September 2012 - June 2013

Mr. Zhen Wang is a Visiting Graduate Student from China, and he will be in the Department for the entire academic year.  Mr. Wang has studied law and philosophy in China (BA) and finance in France (MA), and he is currently working toward his Ph.D. in philosophy at Renmin University, China.  His interests include ancient philosophy, especially Plato, contemporary French philosophy, and moral and political philosophy.