Education
B.A., Philosophy, Uganda Martyrs University, Uganda, 2005
M.A., Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, 2010

Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Law, African Philosophy, and Social/Political Philosophy

Contact Information
andrew.akampurira@email.ucr.edu

Education
BA in Philosophy, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, 2017

Contact Information
abel.ang@email.ucr.edu

Areas of Interest
19th and 20th century German Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche), Japanese Philosophy (esp. Nishitani), Metaethics, Value Theory, Moral Psychology, and Metaphilosophy.

Profile
Abel is primarily interested in questions about the value and the valuable, as well as understanding the roles that they play in both our theories about the world and our everyday practices. He has found Nietzsche and Nishitani’s ideas about value and nihilism to be especially illuminating, and so he seeks to critically evaluate, respond to, and build upon their philosophical work.

He also has a secondary interest in thinking about the nature of philosophy, its value (if any), and how our implicit answers to these metaphilosophical questions impact how we philosophize and what gets counted as philosophy. Here too, he finds Nietzsche and Nishitani to be helpful: both as case studies and as explicit theorists on such matters.

Education
BA in Politics and Philosophy, University of Hull, UK, 2016
MA in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, 2017

Contact Information
jonathan.baker@email.ucr.edu

Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action/Agency, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Ontology

Profile
Broadly speaking, I am interested in how the philosophy of agency intersects with social ontology. My hope is that by re-examining the relationship between individuals and larger social structures we may yield new tools for application in moral, legal and political philosophy. A related secondary interest is the extent to which collectives or groups may be agents, and how our understanding of their agency may inform how we understand ours as individuals.

Education
B.A., Philosophy, Haverford College, PA, 2009
M.A., Philosophy, The University of Warwick, United Kingdom, 2017

Contact Information
joseph.bernardoni@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
M.A., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, PA, 2011

Contact Information
jason.carnell@email.ucr.edu

Education

B.A., Philosophy, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, 2013
M.S., Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, 2018

Contact Information
kendra.chilson@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Political Science, Philosophy –  University of California, Davis 2013
M.A., Philosophy – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2015

Contact Information
tdeli001@ucr.edu

Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action, Moral Psychology, Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Metaethics

Profile
Tristan has a broad interest in issues related to ethics, including questions about free will and moral responsibility. He is especially interested in contemporary virtue ethical approaches, and this relates to his interests in Aristotle, Plato, and the Stoics. He is also interested in ethical naturalism in metaethics and also in recent attempts to ground normativity in the nature of the action.

Education
BA in Philosophy, College of William and Mary, VA , 2017

Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Social/Political Philosophy

Contact Information
kristen.ekstrom@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2015

Contact Information
marie.evanston@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Individualized Study, New York University, NY  2009
M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago, IL 2011
M.A., Philosophy, Georgia State University, GA  2016

Areas of Interest
19th Century German Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Emotion, Philosophy of Race.

Education
B.A., Philosophy –  Cal State University, Dominguez Hills, 2018

Contact Information
gustavo.garcia001@email.ucr.edu

Areas of Interest

1. Moral Philosophy (esp. medical ethics in relation to dilemmas that arise in marginal cases of agency), Agency Theory, including Personal Identity.
2. Kant/Neo-Kantianism and their relationship to Jose Ortega y Gasset, and the history of philosophy in Mexico.

Education
B.A., Philosophy, Humboldt State University, CA, 2014
M.A., Philosophy, Tufts University, MA, 2017

Contact Information
shmuel.gomes@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy, Brandeis University, MA, 2015

Research Areas
German Idealism, Hegel, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Kant

Contact Information
daniel.green@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy, Wheaton College in Massachusetts 2015

Areas of Interest
19 and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Existentialism, and Nietzsche.

Education
B.A., Philosophy, History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA  2009
M.A., Moral and Political Philosophy, State University New York, Binghamton NY, 2012

Contact Information
thana003@ucr.edu 

Areas of Interest
Ethics, Moral Psychology, Aesthetics, 19th-20th Century German Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kant, and the Frankfurt School).

Contact Information
email: nhans012@ucr.edu
website: www.nicholashh.com

pronouns: “they/them/their”

Education
M.A., Philosophy, Brandeis University, MA, 2017-2019
B.S., Computer Science, Rice University, TX, 2012-2016

Profile
Nick is interested in metaphysics, as well as early modern philosophy and its progeny, especially Schopenhauer.  Nick’s background is in computer science, which extends to the philosophy of computation, the applied ethics of artificial intelligence, etc.

Areas of Interest

•  the philosophy of…
  •  computation
  • description
  • emergence
  • causality
  • action
  • mind
•  the applied ethics of…
  • artificial intelligence
  • freedom of speech
  • psychedelics
• meta-
  • physics
  • ethics
  • philosophy
• people:
  • Plato
  • Epicurus
  • Descartes
  • Kant
  • Schopenhauer
  • Husseri
  • Beauvoir
  • Nagel

Education
B.A., Philosophy and History – New York University 2013
M.Sc., – Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition – University of Edinburgh 2014
M.A., – Bioethics – New York University 2015

Contact Information
rotem.herrmann@email.ucr.edu

Areas of Interest
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, bioethics.

Profile
Rotem’s primary interests surround the intersection of philosophy and empirical studies of the mind and brain. More recently, her research has focused on memory; i.e. it’s effects on autonomy (especially in addiction), as well as its relationship to imagination, intuition, dreaming and hallucination.

Education
B.A., Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, 2018

Contact Information
sara.higgins@email.ucr.edu

No information is available.

Education
B.A., Philosophy, Haverford College, PA, 2011
M.A., Philosophy, University of Chicago, IL, 2015

Contact Information
elliott.koch@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 2008
M.A., Philosophy, Texas Tech University, TX 2011

Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action, Epistemology, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Religion

Contact Information
osup.kwon@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.Sc., (Medical Chemistry), University of Ottawa, Canada, 2003
M.A., (Philosophy), Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2010

Contact Information
daisy.laforce@email.ucr.edu

Areas of Interest
Bernard Williams; Nietzsche; History of Philosophy; Moral Psychology

Profile
Daisy’s academic interests began in organic chemistry. Bioethics, the philosophy of science, and (especially) Bernard Williams drew her into academic philosophy. Her research interests are now squarely in the humanities, particularly the history of philosophy.

Publications

“Bernard Williams on Knowledge and Objectivity,” Western Canadian Philosophical Association 2011 Conference.

“A problematic principle,” with L. Crawford and Z. Master, American Journal of Bioethics. 8:12 (2008), 40-42.

“Towards the library generation of natural product-like polycyclics by stereocontrolled diversity oriented synthesis,” with P. Arya, S. Quevillon, R. Joseph, C. Wei, Z. Gan, M. Parisien, E. Sesmilo, P. Reddy, Z. Chem, and P. Durieux, J. Pure and Applied Chem. 77:1 (2005), 163-178.

“A solution and solid phase synthesis of natural product-like tetrahydroquinoline-based polycyclic having a medium size ring,” with P. Arya, S. Couve-Bonnaire, P. Durieux, R. Kumar, and D. Leek,  J. Comb. Chem. 6:5 (2004), 735-745.

No information is available.

Education 
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 2012

Areas of Interest
Kant, 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Ethics, Meta-ethics

Profile
https://ucriverside.academia.edu/AndrewMacDonald

Contact Information
amacd003@ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, PA, 2013
M.A., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 2019

Areas of Interest
Hegel, Kant, Philosophy of Mind, and Pragmatism

Contact Information
jordon.martin@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy/Political Science, Drury University, MO, 2012

Areas of Interest
19th and 20th-century European philosophy, selfhood, moral responsibility, normativity, and ethics

Education
B.A., Philosophy & English Literature, Austin Peay State University, TN, 2012
M.A. Philosophy, Brandeis University, MA, 2014

Areas of Interest
Metaethics, History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Action

Contact Information
deborah.nelson@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy, Haverford College, PA, 2004
M.A, Philosophy, University of Maryland (College Park), MD, 2008
M.A., Philosophy, San Francisco State University, 2014

Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychiatry

Profile
Broadly construed, Jeremy is interested in how the psychological basis of behavior relates to issues in action and agency theory. More specifically, he does work in the philosophy of psychology and psychiatry on natural kinds, psychological explanation, and the nature of the mental illness. He also works in the philosophy of action and agency on issues in responsibility, self-control, and autonomy, especially as they relate to mental illness, but also on theories of these concepts more generally. Additionally, Jeremy has interests in philosophy of mind in mental causation, the metaphysics of mental states, and reductive accounts of the mental. He occasionally dabbles in social ontology, causal theories of meaning, and general issues in the philosophy of science, as well as American Pragmatism and the history of analytic philosophy.

Publications

“Addiction is Not a Natural Kind” (2013) Frontiers in Psychiatry 4, 123.

“Is Addiction a Heterogeneous Condition? Reflections on Pickard’s ‘The Purpose in Chronic Addiction.'” (2012) American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience 3(2) 52-54.

In Progress (Inquire for Draft):

“Reasons-Responsiveness and Responsibility-Mitigating Factors”

“What (Psychologically Constructed) Emotions Really Are”

No information is available.

Education
B.A., Philosophy and Spanish, Mount Holyoke College, 2013
M.A., Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2015

Areas of Interest
19th and 20th-century continental philosophy, particularly Hegel and phenomenology; aesthetics; critical theory; and  Latin American philosophy.

Profile
Shamoni wrote her Master's thesis on the role of individual artistic creativity in Hegel’s aesthetics. Along these lines, she is interested in the question of how individuals develop interior (or private) lives while still being shaped by larger socio-historical systems of ideas and culture.

Education
B.A., Philosophy, Guilford College, NC, 2009
M.A., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI  2013

Areas of Interest
Agency (especially diachronic agency), Ethics, the normativity of content, Pedagogy, Kierkegaard, German idealism, and 20th-century French philosophy.

Education
B.A., Philosophy/Religion, Political Science — Flagler College, 2011 Summa Cum Laude
M.A., Philosophy — University of Houston, 2014

Contact Information
jsmit055@ucr.edu

Areas of Interest
Moral psychology, philosophy of action, ethics, metaethics, philosophy of psychiatry

Profile
Jared focuses primarily on moral responsibility and agency, with some of his previous research concerning the way reactive attitudes feature into our responsibility practices, as well as the role revenge and retributive acts play in our normative systems.

While continuing to work on these topics, Jared also researches how psychopathology can inform our theories of personal identity, the theoretical requirements for the blame of distant, dead, or fictional entities, as well as the connection between human activity, value, and meaning. Other topics of philosophical interest include Humean constructivism and the intersection and interplay between the nosology and ontology of mental disorders.

Education
B.S., Philosophy, Valparaiso University, IN, 2017

Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology, particularly Ontology, Agency, Time, and Modality, which additional interests in Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and Early Modern Philosophy.

Contact Information
nichole.smith@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.S., Physics/Philosophy, Temple University, PA, 2018

Contact Information
christopher.spano@email.ucr.edu

No information is available.

Education
B.A., Colgate University
M.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Profile
Yvonne is interested in the structure of justification, moral theory, moral emotions, normativity, and practical reason. In particular, she spends a lot of time thinking about Kant’s theory of freedom and autonomy, the relational structure of the self, and the relationship between self-interest and the concern for others. She especially enjoys consulting the likes of Kant, Frege, and Nietzsche on these issues.

Education
B.A., Philosophy with Honors, Stanford University, 2015

Areas of Interest
Ethics, meta-ethics, moral psychology, and the theory of agency, and how these problems are treated in the history of modern philosophy, particularly in Nietzsche and also in Kant, Sartre, and Foucault.

Profile
Marek is interested in broadly historical and contemporary issues in normative ethics, meta-ethics, agency, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. His primary research centers around how Nietzsche speaks to each of these topics, and this leads him to secondary research in modern philosophy, including Kant, the existentialists, Foucault, and beyond. His current projects focus on Nietzsche’s views of knowledge, agency, autonomy, and the role and value of suffering.

Education
B.A., Philosophy/Finance, University of Florida, FL, 2017

Contact Information
katherine.vidueira@email.ucr.edu

Education
B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
M.A., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Milwakee, WI, 2017

Contact Information
joshua.waugh@email.ucr.edu