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

damico@ucsd.edu

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

M.A. Philosophy, Bowling Green State University 

My research interests are primarily in metaethics and moral responsibility. In the former, I’ve been thinking about the status and nature of moral testimony and moral expertise, and about the relationship between epistemic challenges to robust realism about morality and epistemic challenges to robust realism about mathematics (e.g. evolutionary debunking arguments and the Benacerraf-Field challenge). In the latter, I’ve been thinking about when moral ignorance excuses wrong action.

Henry Argetsinger

hargetsi@ucsd.edu

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

BA: Beloit College, 2010
MA: UW Milwaukee 2015

I work on issues of moral responsibility, group identity, and the ethics of blame. I also have interests in narrative explanation, ultimate frisbee, and cats.

Javier Medina Barrientos

jmb224@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0437

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.

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 looking at the relationship between culture and knowledge. I am specifically looking at the cultural evolution of epistemic practice. I suspect that cultural evolutionary theory can provide us with an interesting form of evolutionary epistemology.

Other interests include expressive and instrumental accounts of epistemology, philosophy of psychedelics, 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

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.

Eugene Y. S. Chua

eychua@ucsd.edu

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

M.A. (Cantab) Philosophy, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (2017)

Philosophy of Physics, History, and Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Data Ethics

Daniel Cohen

djcohen@ucsd.edu 

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room  0434

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  0454

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

Emma Duncan

erduncan@ucsd.edu 

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

B.A. Philosophy, Graphic Design, Portland State University (2010)
M.A. Philosophy, Northern Illinois University (2015)

My research interests lie primarily in issues pertaining to the ethics of interpersonal influence, especially as they intersect with psychology, medicine, and ethics of technology. My recent projects have been rooted in normative ethics and moral psychology, focusing on rational and non-rational methods of influence, trust, choice architecture (or “nudges”), and how different relationships shape the norms of interpersonal influence more broadly.

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 0469

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 reconstructs Kant's theory of life, relating it to his doctrine of purposiveness as it's introduced in the Critique of the Power of Judgment. I also have research interests in the history of Latin American philosophy as well as post-Kantian European philosophy (especially 19th-century German Idealism).

Nathaniel Greely

ngreely@ucsd.edu

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

B.A. Communication, University of Southern California
M.A. Philosophy California State University Los Angeles

Philosophy of cognitive science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science

Julia Greig

jgreig@ucsd.edu 

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

B.A. Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College
M.A. Classical Studies, Brandeis University

I am primarily interested in the philosophy of death and questions about existence and nonexistence. I am especially curious about the logic of nonexistence and the metaphysics of death. I have additional interests in Presocratic and Hellenistic philosophy.

Ryan Hayes

ryhayes@ucsd.edu

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

B.A. Philosophy, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 2017
M.A. Philosophy, Wayne State University, 2020

My primary interest is in the philosophy of race broadly construed. I focus specifically on the status of mixed racial identities and what they can tell us about race as an active political process. I also have an interest in the intersection between philosophy of race and epistemology, investigating the idea of self-knowledge through experiences of oppression.

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

Sammy Hirshland

shirshland@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0437

B.S. in philosophy, Northeastern University 2019
M.A. in philosophy, Virginia Tech 2022

My interests are in applied ethics and epistemology. In applied ethics I focus primarily on questions related to concepts of disease and disability, and in epistemology I work on questions related to justification and the ethics of belief.

Imani Howard

ihoward@ucsd.edu

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B.A. History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University
B.S. with Honors, Molecular and Cell Biology, Stanford University

John Kinney

jkinney@ucsd.edu

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

B.S. Philosophy (H) and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2019)

I'm primarily interested in Kant's theoretical philosophy, philosophy of mind, and the intersection of the two (especially in issues pertaining to perception, mental content, and the metaphysics of mind). I have growing interests in philosophy of language and epistemology. I'm also interested and involved in public philosophy, mostly through Philosophy for Children (P4C). Aside from philosophy, I love running, climbing, playing piano, and all sorts of games (especially chess). games (especially chess). 

Thomas Kirkpatrick

Alice Koga

akoga@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0434

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 also interested in how issues in these areas interact with various topics in applied ethics.

JiMin Kwon

hjkwon@ucsd.edu

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

B.A. Philosophy and Biology, University of Dayton

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

Philosophy of mind and cognitive science (perception, the perception-cognition distinction, representationalism about perceptual experience, concepts, philosophical issues related to vision science and psycholinguistics); phenomenology (especially Husserl).

Ying Liu

yil065@ucsd.edu

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

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.

Noel Martin

nbmartin@ucsd.edu

B.A. Religious Studies, Humboldt State University
M.A. Philosophy (Neurophilosophy Track), Georgia State University

I’m primarily interested in philosophy of science, the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, and mind. I also have an interest in how these areas intersect with specific questions in moral philosophy and philosophy of perception. I am currently working on a dissertation project that investigates the ways in which scientists studying the mind and brain coordinate their efforts in practice and the role such coordinating might play in developing an account of scientific integration.

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 (2019)

Primary Interests: Action Theory and Metaphysics, esp. Metaphysics of Science
Secondary Interests: Mexican Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, and Ethics

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.

Leonardo Moauro

lmoauro@ucsd.edu

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

B.A. Brown University,
M.A. Tufts University.

My research is centered on the history of ethics and moral psychology in the early modern period. My dissertation develops a comprehensive reading of Spinoza’s theory of value as combining both perfectionist and anti-realist elements. I am also interested in accounts of the mind’s sensitivity to influences commonly regarded as non-rational—such as the passions, habit, and social custom—and of the role these influences play in conceptions of freedom and autonomy.

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.

Karina Ortiz Villa

kortizvilla@ucsd.edu

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

B.A. in Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 

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.

Michael Pittman

mpittman@ucsd.edu

Faron Ray

fray@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0434

Interests: Philosophy of Science, AI Ethics, Cognitive Science/ Philosophy of Cognitive Science

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 0454

B.A. Philosophy, Yale University

Louis Santoro

lsantoro@ucsd.edu

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

Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, cognitive science, ancient 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 0437

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.

Katelyn Stephens

kmstephens@ucsd.edu

Noam Tiran

ntiran@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0434

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

Jada Wiggleton-Little

jwigglet@ucsd.edu

Office: Ridge Walk Academic Complex - Arts & Humanities Bldg. Room 0454

B.A. in Philosophy, Davidson College (2013)

I am primarily interested in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and clinical ethics. I am especially interested in how the three intersect with respect to pain. I am also interested in social epistemology and medical epistemology, specifically testimonial epistemology. When I am not doing philosophy, I am either at the movies, dancing, or writing poetry.

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, and contemporary epistemology. My current research is on the relation between reason and religion in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise.