Graduate Students

Sayid Bnefsi

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, Northern Illinois University, Illinois
B.A., Philosophy, Berea College, Kentucky
Research Interests: The morality of risk, the normativity of personal identity, and the ethics of belief.

Joshua Chang

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
M.Div., Yale University, Connecticut
B.A., Classical Studies and Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Asian Philosophy, Ethics, Meaning of Life, Philosophy of Religion, Political Philosophy.

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.

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
http://josh-dolin.com/
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.

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
J.D., University of Arizona
B.A., Philosophy, University of Arizona
Research Interests: Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Law.

Itzel Aurora Garcia

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
B.A, Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Rena B. Goldstein

Degrees:
M.A., Education, California State University, Los Angeles
M.A., Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles
B.A., Philosophy and Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder
https://www.renabgoldstein.com/
Research Interests: Social and Applied Epistemology, Virtue Epistemology, Philosophy of Education.

Brett Goss

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

Cherrish Hardy

Degrees:
B.A., Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University
Research Interests: Social Epistemology and Social Ontology.

Michael Joseph 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, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics.

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.

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.

Stella Moon

Degrees:
M.S., Logic, University of Amsterdam
B.S., Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Warwick
https://uci.academia.edu/StellaMoon
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mathematics/Mathematical Practice, Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, Phenomenology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Feminist Philosophy, Asian Philosophy of Science.

M. Giulia Napolitano

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University of Utrecht
M.A., Philosophy, University of Padua
B.A., Philosophy, University Of Padua
Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Conceptual Engineering, Experimental Philosophy.

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.

Steven Norris

Degrees:
M.A, Philosophy, Tufts University
B.A, Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Logic, Social Ontology, Promising, History of Analytic Philosophy.

Anna Pederneschi

Degrees:
M.A., Philosophy, University Of Pavia
B.A., Philosophy, University Of Pavia
Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Feminism, Wittgenstein.

J. Ignacio Perez Manrique

Degrees:
B.A., Philosophy, Berea College
Research Interests: Ethics, Action Theory, Epistemology and Feminist Philosophy.

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:
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

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 Sirak 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://uci.academia.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: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Art.

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.