Graduate Students

Yunlong Cao he/him

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Metaphysics, Skepticism, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of A.I., Wittgenstein, Kant. 

Shelby Clipp

Degrees:

M.A., Philosophy, Georgia State University
B.S., Philosophy & Electronic Media & Film, Towson University

Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of cognitive science, and delusions and other atypical mental states. 

https://shelby-clipp.com  

Josh Dolin

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
B.A., Philosophy, California State University, Northridge

Research Interests: Virtue Epistemology, Virtue Ethics, Applied Epistemology, Applied Ethics.

Louis Doulas

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
B.F.A., Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois                                                                                                                http://www.louisdoulas.info

Research Interests: History and Historiography of Analytic Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics.

Rajeev Dutta

Degrees:
B.S., Neuroscience and Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Medicine. 

Taylor Dunn

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles
B.A., Philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri

https://www.tayloradunn.com/

Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic.

Brett Goss

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests: History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics.

Justin E. Greenberg

Degrees:
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine

Research Interests: Perception and memory.

Cherrish Hardy

Degrees:
B.A., Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University

Research Interests: Everyday Aesthetics, Environmental Ethics, Social Epistemology. 

Michael J. Lara

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach
B.A., Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach

Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Music, Aesthetics, Know-How.

Amanda Lathrop

M.A., Political Economy, University of Sydney
B.A., Philosophy, University of New Hampshire

Research interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Political Economy. 

Andre LeBrun

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
B.A., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Epistemology, Perception, Philosophy of Mind, Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, Wittgenstein.                                        Andre Lebrun

Matthew Madruga    

Degrees:

J.D., University of Pittsburgh
M.A., Philosophy, San Francisco State University
B.A., Philosophy, St. John's University

Research Interests: Philosophy of Law, Virtue Ethics, Philosophy of A.I., Philosophy of Education, and Chinese Philosophy.

Edward Mark

Degrees:
M.A.,Philosophy, Boston College, Massachusetts
B.A., Philosophy, B.S. Psychology, De Paul Univeristy, Illinois

Research Interests: Epistemology and Philosophy of mind with an emphasis on self-knowledge and perception.

G. Russell Ming

Degrees:
M.S., Philosophy, University of Glasgow
B.A., Philosophy, California State University, Bakersfield

Research Interests: Epistemology.                                                                                                                                                                                russellming.net

Natalia Nealon

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, San Francisco State University
B.A., Philosophy and Religion, San Francisco State University

Research Interests: Virtue Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics.

Alisha Nesslage "she/her"

Degrees:
A.A.T., Philosophy, Modesto Junior College
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Merced                                                                                                                                                                              B.A., Political Science, University of California, Merced

Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy.                                                                                                                                                    Alisha Nesslage

Sean J. Park

Degrees:
B.A., Philosophy/Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Interests: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Skepticism, Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein.

Anna Pederneschi

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University Of Pavia                                                                                                                                                                                  M.A., Publishing, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
B.A., Philosophy, University Of Pavia

Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Feminism, Wittgenstein, Ancient Greek Philosophy.                                              Anna Pederneschi

Nikita Prokhorov

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine                                                                                                                                                                B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine

Research Interests: Epistemology, Wittgenstein, Critical Theory, Environmental Philosophy.

Tanuj Raut

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine                                                                                                                                                            B.A., Philosophy and English Literature, University Of Edinburgh

Research Interests: Epistemology, Meta-epistemology, Ethics, History of Analytic Philosophy, Marxist and Feminist Philosophy, and Conceptual Engineering.

Isaac Saldivar

Degrees:
M.D., University of California, Irvine
B.A., Biology, Gonzaga University

Research Interests: Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Bioethics; Existentialism; Metaphysics; History of Philosophy.

Caitlin N. Sanchez

Degrees:
B.A., Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of the Mind.

Carl M. Sohmer

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Biola University
B.S., Homiletics, Evangel College

Research Interests: Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Social Ethics, Virtue Theory, Intellectual Virtue.                   https://carlsohmer.academia.edu/

Evan Sommers

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of Chicago, Illinois
B.A., Writing, Ithaca College, New York

Research Interests: Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, History of Cognitive Science, Animal Ethics, AI Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, Epistemology.

Annabelle Tada

Degrees:
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
A.A., English, College of San Mateo

Research Interests: Epistemology, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, and Wittgenstein.

Gustavo Velazquez-Quintana

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY
B.A., Psychology, Universidad de Puerto Rico

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Phenomenology.

Eyob S. Zewdie

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Biola University - Talbot School of Theology
B.S., Philosophy, Northern Illinois University

Research Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophical Methodology.

Tiffany Zhu

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Georgia State University
B.A., Communication Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests: Social Philosophy, Epistemology, Moral Philosophy, Cognitive Science.

Joost Ziff

Degrees:
M.Phil., Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
M.A., Philosophy, University of Leiden, Netherlands
B.A., Philosophy, Haverford College, Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, Disjunctivism.