Graduate Students

Sayid Bnefsi

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Northern Illinois University, Illinois
B.A., Philosophy, Berea College, Kentucky

Research Interests: The morality of risk, Normativity of personal identity, Ethics of belief.

Yunlong Cao

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  

Rachel Cooper

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

Research Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Language.

Matthew Dean

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of Western Ontario
B.A., Philosophy and English, University of Saskatchewan

Research Interests: Ethics, Well-Being, Meaning in Life, and Social Ontology.

Elias (Matthew) Delgado

Degrees:
B.A., Philosophy & Political Science, University of California, Riverside

Research Interests: Wittgenstein, Law, History of Analytic Philosophy, Social Ontology & Epistemology.

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: Epistemology, History of Analytic Philosophy.

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.

Adam Fox

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Georgia State University                                                                                                                                                                        M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
J.D., University of Arizona
B.A., Philosophy, University of Arizona

Research Interests: Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Law.

Brett Goss

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

Research Interests: History, Ethics, Politics.

Justin E. Greenberg

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

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, and Philosophy of Perception especially olfaction and multisensory perception.

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

https://mjlphilosophy.com/

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, Legal Philosophy, Marx.

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

Stella Moon

Degrees:
M.S., Logic, University of Amsterdam
B.S., Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Warwick

https://sites.uci.edu/stellamoon/

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mathematics/Mathematical Practice, Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, Phenomenology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Feminist Philosophy, Asian Philosophy of Science.

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, and Ethics.

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

  Ignacio Perez Manrique

Degrees:
B.A., Philosophy, Berea College

Research Interests: Philosophy of Memory, Paternalism, Social Epistemology. 

Oscar Piedrahita Rivera

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
B.A., Philosophy, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

https://www.oscarpiedrahita.com/

Research Interests: Epistemology and Moral Responsibility.

Michelle Pitassi

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

Research Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science and Nature, Virtue Ethics, Medieval and Modern Philosophy.

Nikita Prokhorov

Degrees:
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: Epistemology, Vision Science and Visual Perception, Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Psychology, Kant, Wittgenstein.

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.

Bin Zhao

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Northern Illinois University, Illinois
M.A., Philosophy, Shandong University, People's Republic of China
B.S., Chemistry, Wuhan University, People's Republic of China

https://sites.uci.edu/binzhao/

Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind.

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.