William Albuquerque

walbuque@ucsd.edu

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.

Dallas Amico-Korby

damico@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room  0446

M.A. Philosophy, Bowling Green State University 

I work primarily in epistemology, metaethics, and the philosophy of technology. You can find more about me and my research at https://www.dallasamico-korby.com/.

Javier Medina Barrientos

jmb224@ucsd.edu

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, 2021

My 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.

Moraima Arias Bejarano

moarias@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0469

B.A. Philosophy-University of the Pacific
M.A. Philosophy- San José State University

Interests: Mexican Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy and History of Philosophy

Samantha Berthelette

sberthel@ucsd.edu

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 University

I 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.

Andrew Bollhagen

abollhag@ucsd.edu

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 University

Interests 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.

Zack Brants

zbrants@ucsd.edu 

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.

Haggeo Cadenas

hcadenas@ucsd.edu

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 University

I’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.

Weixin Cai

w3cai@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0441

B.A. Philosophy, Renmin University of China
M.A. Philosophy, Simon Fraser University

Interests: 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

Patricio Alonso Ávila Cárdenas

pavilacardenas@ucsd.edu

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.

Aaron Chipp-Miller

achippmi@ucsd.edu

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.

Daniel Cohen

djcohen@ucsd.edu 

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.

Kathleen Connelly

kaconnelly@ucsd.edu

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.

Samuel Delorme

sdelorme@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room  0433

B.A. UBC 2020
M.A. UBC 2022

Maximilian Edwards

mvedward@ucsd.edu 

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room  0430

B.A. Philosophy, Cambridge
M.Phil. Philosophy, University College London

My 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.  

Tyler Farmer

tfarmer@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0433

B.F.A. Dance, California State University, Long Beach
M.A. Philosophy, Tufts University

I’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.

Bosco Garcia

jgarca@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0436

B.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
M.A. University of Bristol

Philosophy of physics, philosophy of neuroscience, history of science, and mathematics.

Juan Carlos González

jcg050@ucsd.edu

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.
 
For more about me and my research, check out my website.

Julia Andrina Greig

jgreig@ucsd.edu 

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.

Min Heo

miheo@ucsd.edu

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

Imani Howard

ihoward@ucsd.edu

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 University

Alice Koga

akoga@ucsd.edu

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.

Huadian Liu

hul010@ucsd.edu

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 University

I 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.

Ying Liu

yil065@ucsd.edu

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 Houston

Dafna Mark - Ben Shabat

dmarkben@ucsd.edu

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.

Joseph Martinez

jdm001@ucsd.edu

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

Marcus McGahhey

mmcgahhey@ucsd.edu 

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 University

My 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.

Gabriel Nyberg

gnyberg@ucsd.edu

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.

Joseph O'Brien

j3obrien@ucsd.edu

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.

Karina Ortiz Villa

kortizvilla@ucsd.edu

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.

Subin Park

sup017@ucsd.edu 

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.

Faron Ray

fray@ucsd.edu

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.

Sam Ridge

siridge@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0446

B.A. Philosophy and Economics (DePaul University)
M.A. Philosophy (University of Houston)

Emiliano Salomón

esalomn@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0438

B.A. Philosophy, Yale University

Louis Santoro

lsantoro@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0452

Interests: Artificial intelligence, conflict studies, computational psychiatry, Greek philosophy

Ayoob Shahmoradi

ayoob@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0429

AOS: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language. 

Shelly Yiran Shi

yis007@ucsd.edu

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)

Ahmed Siddiqi

ahsiddiq@ucsd.edu

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 Houston

Primary Interests: Metaethics, Moral Psychology  
Secondary Interests: Political Philosophy

On Yi Sin

osin@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0439

Mika Smith

ms223@ucsd.edu

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.

Daria Stepanova

dastepanova@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0469

B.A. Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Interests: Ancient philosophy, ethics of AI

Katelyn Stephens

kmstephens@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0471

Noam Tiran

ntiran@ucsd.edu

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.

Bas Tönissen

btonisse@ucsd.edu

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.

Richard Vagnino

rvagnino@ucsd.edu

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 University

Interests: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Scientific Practice, Analogical Reasoning

Esraa Wasel

ewasel@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0469

B.A. Philosophy, University of Houston

Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Ancient Philosophy

Keyao Yang

K2yang@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0441

B.A. Sun Yat-sen University
M.A. University of Houston

Currently, my main interests are in ethics and moral psychology, with a special focus on philosophical issues related with addiction. 

Jacob Zellmer

jzellmer@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0440

B.A. Biblical Studies, Azusa Pacific University
M.A. Philosophy, San Francisco State University

My 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.