PhD Students

Shawn Thomas Allen

Research Interests:
Kantian Studies, History of Philosophy, Early Modern to Modern Philosophy, Hermeneutics

Education:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, MA, Theology & Religious Studies
University of San Francisco, BA, Philosophy (Minor: Theology & Religious Studies)

Email: [email protected]
 

Bailey Cordell

Research Interests:
Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Ethics

Education:
Clarkson University & Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, MA, Bioethics 
Pacific University, BA, Philosophy & Psychology (Minor: Spanish)

Email: [email protected]
 

Daniel Coutu

Research Interests:
Social and Political Philosophy, Gender, Feminism, Spinoza

Education:
Florida Gulf Coast University

Email: [email protected]
 

Patrick Ewell

Research Interests:
Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

Education:
University of Michigan – Flint, Philosophy, BA
University of Michigan – Flint, Masters of Public Administration
Eastern Michigan University, Philosophy MA

Email: [email protected]
 

Jonah Ford

Research Interests:
Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Monster Theory/Philosophy of Horror

Education:
Boston University School of Theology, Masters of Theological Studies
Eastern Nazarene College, BA, Religious Studies

Email: [email protected]
 

Colby J. Harvish

Research Interests:
Epistemology, Logic and Reasoning, Philosophy of Science, Early Modern Philosophy

Education:
University at Albany, MA Philosophy
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, BA, Philosophy (Minor: Spanish)

Email: [email protected]
 

Marla Hasin

Research Interests:
Metaethics, Pragmatism, Bioethics, Moral Psychology

Education:
Fordham University, BA, Philosophy & Theology (Minor: Bioethics & Classics)

Email: [email protected]
 

Caelan D. Knapp

Research Interests:
Ethics Technology, Ethics Moral Psychology, Artificial Intelligence

Education:
University of Pittsburgh, BS Psychology (Minor: Philosophy)

Email: [email protected]
 

Kei Yan Leung

Research Interests:
Ethics, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics, Political Philosophy

Education:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, MA, Philosophy
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, BS, Physics (Minor: Philosophy) 

Email: [email protected]
 

Damian Masterson

Research Interests:
Adam Smith, Empathy & Fellow-Feeling, Moral Psychology, Neuroethics

Education:
University at Albany, MA, Philosophy
SUNY New Paltz, BA, Philosophy (Minor: Ancient Studies)

Email: [email protected]
 

Connor J. Menneto

Research Interests:
Social & Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Taxation

Education:
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, JD
University of South Florida, BA, Philosophy (minoring in economics and women's and gender
studies)
University of South Florida, BA, Political Science

Email: [email protected]
 

Daniel O'Connor

Research Interests:
Ancient Greek Philosophy, Middle Ages Philosophy, Thomas Aquinas & Duns Scotus, Philosophy of Religion

Education:
Holy Apostles College, MA, Philosophical Theology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, BS, Mechanical Engineering

Email: [email protected]
Daniel O'Connor CV
 

Rudy Stegemoeller

Research Interests:
Philosophy of Technology, Pragmatism, Philosophy and Humanities

Education:
Duke University, JD
Haverford College, BA, Philosophy

Email: [email protected]

 

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ABD Students

Nick Boles

Research Interests:
Kantian Constitutivism, The Innate Right to Freedom, Responding to Moral Skeptics

Education:
Central Michigan University, BS, Philosophy & Psychology

Email: [email protected]
 

Christian Carrozzo

Research Interests:
Philosophy of Mind, Neurophilosophy, Neuroethics

Education:
George Mason University, BA Philosophy
George Mason University, MA Philosophy

Dissertation Title or Topic:
Concepts & Experience

Email: [email protected]
 

Henry Curtis

Research Interests:
Bioethics, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy

Education:
University at Albany, MA, Philosophy
Columbia University, MS, Bioethics
Marist College, BA, Philosophy

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/henry-curtis
 

Merve Erkal

Research Interests:
Ancient Philosophy, Political & Social Philosophy

Education:
Istanbul Bilgi University, MA, Human Rights Law
Koç University, BA, Psychology
Koç University, BA, Business Administration

Email: [email protected]
Website: https://bilgi.academia.edu/MerveErkal
 

Andrew Gill

Research Interests:
Moral Psychology / Philosophy of Emotion, Ethical Theory, Experimental Philosophy, Algorithmic Bias, Free Will

Education:
University at Albany, MA, Philosophy
College at Brockport, SUNY, BA, Philosophy
College at Brockport, SUNY, BA, Spanish
College at Brockport, SUNY, BS, Psychology

Dissertation Title or Topic:
Algorithmic Bias

Email: [email protected]
Andrew Gill CV
 

Elizabeth Quinn Gray

Research Interests:
Social & Political Philosophy, Ideal & Non-Ideal Justice Theory, Interpersonal Duties of Justice, Rawls

Education:
University at Albany, MA, Philosophy
University at Albany, BA, Philosophy (Minor: Astronomy & Planetary Science)

Email: [email protected]
 

George Kassimis

Research Interests:
Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Action, Moral Psychology

Education:
Marist College, BA, Philosophy
Washington State University, MA, Philosophy

Dissertation Title or Topic:
Philosophy of Comedy

Email: [email protected]
 

Ilva Llakmani

Research Interests:
History of Early Modern Philosophy; Philosophy of science; Metaphysics and epistemology

Education:
University of Hartford, MS, Biology Neuroscience
Trinity College, BS, Neuroscience (Minor: Philosophy)

Dissertation Title or Topic:
Causation

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MA Students

Joel Kapapa

Research Interests:
Ethics and Social Political Philosophy

Education:
MA philosophy

Thesis Title or Topic:
Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership philosophy and the political crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Email: [email protected]

 

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