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William Albuquerque
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0433
B.A. Philosophy, Bowdoin College (2011)
M.A. Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (2016)Interests: Moral responsibility, moral psychology, meta-ethics, emotions.
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Dallas Amico-Korby
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0446
M.A. Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
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Javier Medina Barrientos
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0438
B.A. Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2017
M.A. Philosophy of science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2021My research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of science, history and philosophy of astronomy, and the epistemology of measurement. I'm also drawn to issues concerning scientific progress and rationality, and scientific knowledge production processes.
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Moraima Arias Bejarano
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0469
B.A. Philosophy-University of the Pacific
M.A. Philosophy- San José State UniversityInterests: Mexican Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy and History of Philosophy
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Samantha Berthelette
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0441
B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, University of Vermont
M.A. in Philosophy, Florida State UniversityI primarily work on problems concerning agency, moral responsibility, and the law—and I am especially interested when all three of these topics are involved. I also do work in philosophy of mind (especially self-deception) and well-being. Sometimes I do experiments to help support my arguments. When I'm not doing philosophy, I can usually be found West Coast Swing dancing or playing pool.
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Andrew Bollhagen
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0435
B.A. University of California, Irvine
M.A. California State University, Long Beach
Pre-Doctoral Research Associate, Mississippi State UniversityInterests are: General Philosophy of Science, Practice-oriented Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cell Biology (in particular "molecular motors"), Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, and Philosophy of Neuroscience.
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Zack Brants
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0429
B.A. Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Washington (2016)
My research mainly focuses on Plato and Aristotle’s moral psychology and ethics. I am particularly interested in understanding how their conceptions of anticipatory pleasure and anticipatory pain inform their views on desire, emotion, and virtue. I also attempt to trace the extent to which Aristotle engages with, and departs from, Plato on these issues.
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Haggeo Cadenas
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0446
B.A in Psychology from Northern Arizona University
M.A in Philosophy from Arizona State UniversityI’m working on cultural evolutionary theory and how to develop an evolutionary evolutionary epistemology from it. Other interestes include philosophy of psychedelics, expressive and instrumental accounts of epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
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Weixin Cai
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0441
B.A. Philosophy, Renmin University of China
M.A. Philosophy, Simon Fraser UniversityInterests: topics related to causation and explanation in various areas including general philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, metaphysics, and ethics; theoretical virtues in scientific, metaphysical, and moral theories
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Patricio Alonso Ávila Cárdenas
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0438
B.S., Physics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2018)
M.A., Philosophy of Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2021)My primary research interests are the philosophy of physics and the metaphysics of science. I am interested in the problems of measurement and ontology in quantum theory, the problem of the arrow of time, and the issue of the peaceful coexistence between quantum mechanics and relativity.
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Aaron Chipp-Miller
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0432
B.A. Philosophy, UC San Diego (2020)
I am interested in theories of equality in political philosophy, animal ethics, and decision making under normative uncertainty.
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Daniel Cohen
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0430
B.A. Philosophy and German Literature and Cultural History, Columbia University (2020)
I have broad interests in the history of philosophy. I am especially interested in ancient philosophy (particularly Aristotle), the Kantian tradition, and twentieth century phenomenology. Within the history of philosophy, I am interested in issues pertaining to metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
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Kathleen Connelly
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0438
B.A. Philosophy, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
My research interests are in ethics and science studies. In particular, I’m interested in questions about moral responsibility motivated by engagement with empirical psychology and history of medicine. These interests have manifested in work on moral responsibility and implicit bias; my developing research includes work on whether moral responsibility and mental disability.
When I’m not doing moral responsibility research, I’m interested in philosophy of language and feminist philosophy, by way of philosophical hobbies.
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Samuel Delorme
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0433
B.A. UBC 2020
Interests: Philosophy of action, moral psychology, agency over time
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Maximilian Edwards
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0430
B.A. Philosophy, Cambridge
M.Phil. Philosophy, University College LondonMy primary research focus is on Kant's theoretical philosophy - especially the nature and status of the categories and their various deductions, and the character of transcendental idealism. I also have a growing interest in the Critical system as a whole.
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Tyler Farmer
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0433
B.F.A. Dance, California State University, Long Beach
M.A. Philosophy, Tufts UniversityI’m interested in questions about how we can be (more) effective at performing our intended actions. As such, I think about the limitations of our agency and how we can leverage our capacities for planning and automatization to optimize our effectiveness within those limitations. I also think about how oppression and privilege impact both our immediate and extended agency, and how we can successfully navigate the limitations imposed on our agency by our social positions.
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Bosco Garcia
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0436
B.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
M.A. University of BristolPhilosophy of physics, philosophy of neuroscience, history of science, and mathematics.
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Juan Carlos González
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0435
B.A. from Xavier University (2014)
M.A. from the New School for Social Research (2017)My dissertation is on Kant’s doctrine of the organism. In addition to interests in Kant, I have research interests in Latin American philosophy, post-Kantian philosophy, and the history of the philosophy of science – though most of my work resides at the intersection of some or all of these areas.
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Julia Andrina Greig
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0430
B.A., Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College (2019)
M.A., Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, Brandeis University (2021)My research explores biomedical ethics, with a specific focus on reproductive ethics and the metaphysics of pregnancy. I also examine ethical and metaphysical questions about life, death, and personhood. In addition, I am interested in ancient philosophical views on these subjects, especially the Presocratic and Hellenistic.
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Min Heo
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0461
B.A. Philosophy, Seoul National University (2015)
M.A. Philosophy, Seoul National University (2017)Interests: Early modern philosophy, Kant's theoretical philosophy, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of language
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Imani Howard
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0454
B.A. History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University
B.S. with Honors, Molecular and Cell Biology, Stanford UniversityAs an MD/PhD candidate, my primary research interests are the philosophy of medicine, the role of race and identity in healthcare and the physician-patient relationship. My clinical interests are in psychiatry and primary care. -
Alice Koga
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0430
B.A. Philosophy, with a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California Riverside
My research interests include agency and moral psychology, as well feminist philosophy and philosophy of race.I am especially interested in where these fields intersect with social phenomena in places such as applied ethics, personhood, bioethics, philosophy of disability, and social philosophy broadly construed.
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Huadian Liu
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0461
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
MSc Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition, University of Edinburgh
M.A. Philosophy, Tufts UniversityI aim to give a good answer to the question “How is intentional experience possible?” that is informed by Brentano and Husserl, the functionalist tradition in philosophy of mind, and cognitive psychology.
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Ying Liu
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0454
B.A. Politics and Public Administration, South China Normal University
M.A. Philosophy, University of HoustonPrimary interests: ethics, social philosophy, agency, practical reason.Secondary interest: History of moral and political philosophy. -
Dafna Mark - Ben Shabat
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0439
B.A. Humanities and Arts, Tel Aviv University
Early modern philosophy, especially Spinoza. Questions of individuality, substance mode relations.
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Joseph Martinez
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0429
B.A. Philosophy, UC Berkeley (2016)
M.A. Philosophy, UC San Diego (2020)AOS: Metaphysics and Ethics. AOC: Latin American Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, and Philosophy of Science
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Marcus McGahhey
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0440
B.A. Philosophy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
M.A. Philosophy (Neurophilosophy Track), Georgia State UniversityMy areas of interest include philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and epistemology. I'm especially drawn to issues concerning perceptual experience, intuition, epistemic justification, and self-knowledge. In my free time, I enjoy watching films, listening to comedy, and writing music on my guitar.
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Gabriel Nyberg
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0432
B.A. Theoretical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg (2017)
MSc. Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics (2019)I'm broadly interested in the philosophy of science, objectivity, metaphilosophy, and foundational issues in any form of organized inquiry. In particular, I am drawn to issues in replication of scientific results, measurement, concept validation and epistemic transparency and public reason.
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Joseph O'Brien
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0437
B.S. Data Science and Philosophy, William & Mary (2023)
My interets include issues in AI Ethics and related topics in the philosophy of science. Particularly, I'm looking to explore the problem of induction and causation in machine learning systems. I'm also interested in how the current technological landscape should inform our account of privacy.
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Karina Ortiz Villa
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0432
B.A. Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
My primary research interests are in latin american philosophy and political philosophy (historical and contemporary) as well as the ethics of AI and its intersection with philosophy of law. My main project is on questions on self-determination during Spanish colonialism and the political philosophy of Bartolome de las Casas. I also am currently working on strategies for the ethical implementation of artificial intelligence in the law.
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Subin Park
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0471
B.A. & M.A. Philosophy, Ewha Womans [sic] University, South Korea
My primary research interest is in ancient Greek philosophy, primarily Plato’s and Aristotle’s moral philosophy and moral psychology. I also have interests in metaethics, particularly in questions related to moral judgment and moral realism/(non)-naturalism.
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Faron Ray
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0433
B.A., Fine Arts, University of the Arts London (2015)
M.A., Philosophy, University of London: Birkbeck College. (2020)My primary research interests lie in moral and political philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of punishment and the criminal law. I also have secondary interests in the philosophy of social science, particularly in issues surrounding causation, explanation and social ontology.
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Sam Ridge
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0446
B.A. Philosophy and Economics (DePaul University)
M.A. Philosophy (University of Houston)Interests: Ethics and moral psychology -
Emiliano Salomón
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0438
B.A. Philosophy, Yale University
My research interests are in the history of philosophy in Latin America (especially 20th century Mexico), German Idealism (especially Hegel), social philosophy, and aesthetics. -
Louis Santoro
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0452
Interests: Artificial intelligence, conflict studies, computational psychiatry, Greek philosophy
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Ayoob Shahmoradi
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0429
AOS: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language.
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Shelly Yiran Shi
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0436
Undergrad: London School of Economics (LSE) BSc. Philosophy and Economics (2017)
Masters: Columbia University MA. Philosophical Foundations of Physics (2019)Interests: Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Economics, Feminist Philosophy of Science -
Ahmed Siddiqi
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0461
B.A. Genetics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
D.D.S. Texas A&M College of Dentistry
M.A. Philosophy, University of HoustonPrimary Interests: Metaethics, Moral Psychology
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On Yi Sin
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0439
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Mika Smith
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0471
My interests lie at the intersection of the philosophies of science, technology (especially artificial intelligence), information, and psychology. I am also in the Science Studies Program and enjoy engaging in empirical research that aligns with my philosophical interests.
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Daria Stepanova
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0469
B.A. Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Interests: Ancient philosophy, ethics of AI
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Katelyn Stephens
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0471
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Noam Tiran
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0439
B.A., Philosophy and Religious Studies, Shalem College, Jerusalem (2018)
M.A., Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2021)I work at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, the philosophy of action, and moral psychology. I'm particularly fascinated by phenomena that don't fit snuggly in either "the space of reasons" or "the space of causes," like the immensely variegated category of unreflective human performances. Currently, I'm trying to develop a philosophical account of styles of agency and to see whether it can teach us some cool things about mind and action.
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Bas Tönissen
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0439
B.A. Liberal Arts & Sciences, University College Roosevelt (2013)
MPhil Philosophy, University of St. Andrews/Stirling joint program (2017)My interests at the most general level are in the history of philosophy, moral psychology, and the self. More specifically, I work on Kant's account of radical evil as well as a number of related topics in his philosophy, such as (self-)love, (self-)forgiveness, and the metaphysics of agency. I am interested both in correct interpretation of Kant's thought, as well as in bringing to bear neglected lessons from his work on contemporary debates in moral psychology.
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Richard Vagnino
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0435
B.M. Music, History, New York University
M.M. Music Theory and Composition, New York UniversityInterests: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Scientific Practice, Analogical Reasoning
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Esraa Wasel
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0469
B.A. Philosophy, University of Houston
Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Ancient Philosophy
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Keyao Yang
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0441
B.A. Sun Yat-sen University
M.A. University of HoustonCurrently, my main interests are in ethics and moral psychology, with a special focus on philosophical issues related
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Jacob Zellmer
Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0440
B.A. Biblical Studies, Azusa Pacific University
M.A. Philosophy, San Francisco State UniversityMy interests include early modern philosophy, medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of race, and epistemology. My dissertation is on the relation between reason and religion in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise.