Current Graduate Students

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Nadav Arviv
Email: nadavarviv at uchicago dot edu
Questions: How to live? Why be moral?
Fields of interest: Metaethics, Philosophy of Action.
Thinkers: Cavell, Wittgenstein, Kant, Davidson
Previous education: BA, Philosophy and Economics,Tel Aviv University
MA Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
MBA, Technion

 

Stina Bäckström

stina backstrom
Email: stina at uchicago dot edu
Interests: The intersection of epistemology and philosophy of mind, especially problems of self-knowledge and knowledge of others. Skepticism.
Previous education: BA, 2003, Uppsala Universit
y.

John Beer
Email: jbeer at uchicago dot edu
Dissertation Committee: Robert Pippin (chair), Jonathan Lear, James Conant
Dissertation Title: Reading as Recollection and as Revelation: Heidegger, Benjamin, Cavell

Nir Ben Moshe
Email: nir at uchicago dot edu
Interests: history of analytic philosophy (Wittgenstein in particular); 19th and 20th century European philosophy; philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology; psychoanalysis; moral psychology (as well as other fields in ethics); philosophy of science (especially modes of scientific explanation); meta-philosophy.
Previous education: B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology, Hebrew University; M.A. in Philosophy, Hebrew University; M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Hebrew University.

 

Sara Bosworth

sara bosworth
Email: Bosworth at uchicago dot edu
Interests: philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, early analytic philosophy
Previous Education: Hamilton College, B.A., New School for Social Research, M.A.

Kristin Boyce
Email: keboyce at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy and literature/aesthetics (particularly the significance of literary form/style to philosophical work), early analytic
Previous Education: B.A. Mathematics and Religious Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1992; M.A. Religion and Literature, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1994
Dissertation Committee: James Conant and Michael Kremer (co-chairs), Daniel Brudney, Jonathan Lear
Dissertation Title: "Re-examining the Philosophical Relevance of Henry James"

 

Silver Bronzo


Email: bronzo at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Wittgenstein, Conant-Diamond interpretation of the Tractatus, Cavell, McDowell, analytic moral philosophy, free will
Previous Education: Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

 

Amos Browne


Email: browne at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy of mind; in particular, issues about rationality, intention, meaning, biological life, and the nature of thought.
Previous education: BA, Litterae Humaniores (Classics and Philosophy), Oxford, 2006

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Toby Chow
Email: tobitac at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ancient ethics and psychology, Kierkegaard, psychoanalysis, the concept of conversion, logic. My dissertation will argue for an alternative to the standard intellectualist interpretation of Plato's Socrates.
Dissertation Committee: Michael Forster, Rachana Kamtekar (Arizona), Gabriel Richardson Lear, Jonathan Lear
Previous Education: BA (Philosophy, Cognitive Science), Simon Fraser University

Dawn Eschenauer Chow
Email: desch at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, philosophy of religion, free will
Previous Education: Saint Mary's College

Michael Crema
Email: mncrema at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ancient Philosophy (particularly Aristotle's logic and metaphysics), Kant, Wittgenstein, and contemporary Philosophy of Language and Epistemology.
Previous education: BA. in Philosophy and Classics, University of British Columbia, Canada; M. Phil. in Philosophy, King's College London, University of London, UK

Abby Dean
Email: aedean at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Primarily ancient philosophy, secondarily moral psychology and philosophy and literature.
Previous Education: B.A. Comparative Literature, Stanford
University
Dissertation Committee: Gabriel Lear, Martha Nussbaum, Jonathan Lear
Dissertation Title: TBA

William Deuschle
Email: deuscwf at msn dot com
Interests: Logic, Metaphysics, Wittgenstein, Quine, Carnap
Previous Education: BA, Rice Univ., 1970
MA, Univ. of Chicago, 1974
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kremer (chair), Josef Stern, William Tait
Dissertation Title: The Relationship Between Logic, Metaphysics and Science

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Jaime Edwards

jaime edwards
edwardsj at uchicago dot edu
Previous Education: B.A. Berkeley, 2008 (Highest Distinction)
Interests: The debate between realists, idealists, pragmatists, and related issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics.


Jay Elliott
Email: jelliott at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, Political Philosophy
Previous Education: B.A., NYU, 2000
Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler (chair), Arnold Davidson, Jonathan Lear, Dan Brudney, Gabriel Richardson Lear
Dissertation Title: "Determinate Practical Reason and the Possibility of Moral Virtue"

 

Tom Evnen

tom evnen
Email: tomevnen at uchicago dot edu
Interests: German idealism, Wittgenstein, ethics, philosophy of action
Previous Education: B.A., Philosophy, Swarthmore College

 

Rachel Goodman

rachel goodman
Email: goodman at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Mind and Language, Singular Thought, Demonstratives, Gareth Evans
Previous Education: BA Hons. Philosophy, University of Sydney, BA Politics & English, University of Western Australia
Dissertation Committee: Josef Stern (chair), Michael Kremer, Jason Bridges, Jim Conant.

Mark Gottlieb
Interests: Ethics, political philosophy, and 19th and 20th Century Continental philosophy. Also interested in history of philosophy, philosopy of religion, and philosophy of education.
Previous Education: B.A. Yeshiva College, 1990; A.M. University of Chicago, 1994
Dissertation Advisors: Robert Pippin, Charles Larmore, Michael Forster
Dissertation Title: Incommensurability and the Critique of Cosmopolitanism

 

Aidan Gray

aidan gray
Email: agray at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Formal Semantics and The History of Analytic Philosophy. I'm writing a dissertation on the Predicate View of Names
Previous Education: B.A. Philosophy. University of Toronto. 2003.
Dissertation Committee: Josef Stern (chair), Michael Kremer, Chris Kennedy (Linguistics).

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Daesuk Han
Email: daesuk at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
Previous Education: M.A. from Seoul Natonal University, 1998, Beyond the inner and the outer: Wittgenstein's philosophy of psychology.
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kremer (chair), Jim Conant, Josef Stern
Dissertation Title: Clarity and Silence, A Nonstandard Reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

John Hannon
Email: jfhannon at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, History and Philosophy of Science, Legal Theory
Previous Education: B.A., Classics and Philosophy, Bard College, 1996
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum (chair), Elizabeth Asmis, Robert Richards.
Dissertation Title: Aristotle's Conception of Science: The Case of On Youth and Old Age, and Life and Death, and Respiration

 

Nathaniel Hansen

nat hansen
Email: hansenn at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, history of analytic philosophy
Previous Education: B.A. Georgetown University (2000), B.A. University of Oxford (2002)
Dissertation Committee: Josef Stern (chair), James Conant, Michael Kremer, Jason Bridges, David Finkelstein
Dissertation Title: Radical Contextualism
Website: http://nathaniel.hansen.googlepages.com/

 

Rafeeq Hasan

rafeeq hasan
Email: rahasan at uchicago dot edu
Interests: History of Moral and Political Philosophy;
19th-20th Century European Philosophy.
Previous Education: BA, Philosophy, University of Chicago,
2001; John Hopkins University Humanities Center, 2001-2002
Dissertation Committee: Robert Pippin (chair), Daniel Brudney, Arnold Davidson, and Martha Nussbaum.
Dissertation title: Virtue and Nature in Rousseau

Judy Hensley
Email:jhensley at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Language, Early Analytic Philosophy
Previous Education:Gustavus Adolphus College, BA; Harvard University, MTS; Stanford University , JD
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kremer, James Conant, Dan Brudney, Martin Stone

Lisa Hicks
Email: Lisa_Hicks_99 at alumni dot brown dot edu
Interests: Post-Kantian ethics, philosophy and literature, moral psychology
Previous Education: AB, Moral and Political Philosophy, Brown University, 1999; AB, English and American Literature, Brown University, 1999
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum (chair), Michael Forster, Charles Larmore
Dissertation Title: Pathologies of the Self: Nietzsche on Self-Creation

Erica Holberg
Email: ericah at uchicago dot edu
Interests: ancient philosophy, ethics, aesthetics
Previous Education: B.A. Penn State, 2001
Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler (chair), Gabriel Richardson Lear, Jonathan Lear
Dissertation Title: Pleasure and Ethical Theory.

David Holiday
Email: dholiday at uchicago dot edu
Interests: ethics/moral philosophy, history of philosophy, Cora Diamond, 17th and 18th c. British philosophers, Wittgenstein, racism
Previous Education: Oxford University

 

Mark Hopwood

mark hopwood
Email: mhopwood at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ethics, religion, belief, imagination, Wittgenstein, Albert Camus.
Previous education: BPhil (Philosophy) Christ Church College, University of Oxford; BA (Philosophy and Modern Languages), The Queen's College, University of Oxford

Karolina Huebner
Email: khubner at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Spinoza, Early Modern philosophy generally, history of ethics, 20th century continental philosophy, philosophy of art.
Previous Education: BA Philosophy, English, Williams College 1997; MA, Philosophy, University of Warwick 1999.
Dissertation Committee: Arnold Davidson andYitzhak Melamed (co-chairs), Charles Larmore, Steven Nadler
Dissertation Title: The Metaphysical Foundations of Spinoza's Moral Philosophy
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~khubner/

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Jennifer Johnson
Email: johnsonj at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ethics, Political Theory, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy and Law, Ancient Philosophy
Previous Education: BA, Biology and Philosophy, Grinnell College 1999
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum, Candace Vogler

 

Nicholas Koziolek


Email: nkoziolek at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of perception; the history of philosophy beginning with Kant (esp. Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein); thought (i.e., how to understand it).
Previous education: Colgate University, BA in Philosophy, 2007. University of Cambridge (Trinity College), M.Phil. in Philosophy, 2008

Sheela Kumar
Email: slkumar at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Kant, German idealism, social and political philosophy, existentialism and phenomenology
Previous Education: B.A. Philosophy, University of Alberta (Canada), 1999
Dissertation Committee: Robert Pippin (chair), Michael Forster, James Conant, Allen Wood (Indiana)
Dissertation Title: What the Doctrine of Right is Doing in The Metaphysics of Morals: the Independence of Right and Ethics in Kant's Practical Philosophy

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Aaron Lambert
Email: alambert at uchicago dot edu
Interests: What is philosophy, how should we do it, and how is it connected to living the good life? Theoretical interests at the moment are philosophy of mind and science, also (or essentially) Kant. When I finally grow up I'll do ethics and psychoanalysis.
Previous Education: B.Eng (Mechanical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, 1994)
M.Sc. (Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, 1995)
M.A. (Philosophy, Queen's University, 1997)
M.Phil (Philosophy by research, University of Glasgow, 2000)
Dissertation Committee: John Haugeland, Michael Kremer, Jason Bridges
Dissertation Title: What's wrong with philosophy of mind?

Thomas Land
Email: tcland at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Kant, M&E, Phil of Mind, Phil of Action. My dissertation is about the theory of of pure concepts set out in the Critique of Pure Reason and they role of these concepts in Kant's philosophy of perception.
Previous Education: University of Heidelberg (Germany); M.A., University of Chicago, 2000
Dissertation Committee: Jim Conant (chair), Robert Pippin, Michael Kremer and Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Dissertation Title: Kant's Theory of Pure Concepts

Alex Langlinais
E-mail: langlinais at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Hegel, German Idealism, Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, concepts and conceptual content
Previous Education: B.A., Philosophy and Classics, Loyola University New Orleans

 

Thomas Lockhart
tom lockhart
Email: toml at uchicago dot edu
Interests: History of early analytic philosophy, particularly Frege. Philosophy of logic, philosophy of maths, British philosophers of the late twentieth century.
Previous Education: Oxford (St. John's, BA(Hons), 2002), Maths and Philosophy
Committee: Michael Kremer (chair), James Conant, Josef Stern.
Title: Frege, singular terms and logical objects.

 

Jennifer Ryan Lockhart
jennifer lockhart
Email: jrs at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Kierkegaard, Kant's practical philosophy, ancient ethics, love and marriage
Previous Education: BA, philosophy, University of Georgia, 2002
Dissertation Committee: Jonathan Lear (chair), Dan Brudney, James Conant
Dissertation Title: Kierkegaard and the Indirect Communication of Ethical and Religious Truth

Ryan Long
Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, Political Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Religion
Previous Education: Macalester College (B.A. '99 Philosophy)
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum (chair),Dan Brudney, John Deigh (University of Texas)
Dissertation Title: TBA

 

Micah Lott

Email: mlott at uchicgao dot edu
Interests: Moral Philosophy -Ethics, History of Ethics, Political Philosophy
Previous Education: University of Georgia, BA (History and Philosophy), 2001; Fuller Theological Seminary, MA (Theology), 2003

Zachary Loveless
Email: zdlove at uchicago dot edu
Interests: I have worked mostly on the history of philosophy (Kant,
Frege and Wittgenstein) and the philosophy of action. But I am also interested in the early moderns (esp. Descartes and Berkeley), god, the world, the soul of man, and all other things in general (especially bread baking).
Previous Education: Auburn University; Southern Union Junior College

Josef Lubenow
Email: lubenow at msn dot com
Interests: Ethics and Political Philosophy
Previous Education: M.A. in Philosophy, University of Chicago

Alyssa Luboff
Email: all at uchicago dot edu
interests: Kant and German Idealism; applying neo-Kantian thought to contemporary problems related to Globalization; developing and defending a workable form of relativism.
Previous education: graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, with distinction in philosophy from Yale in 1996 (B.A.); received M.A. in philosophy from University of Chicago in 1998.

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Hannah McKeown
Email: hmckeown at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Aesthetics/Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Physics, Kant and Idealism
Previous Education: B.Mus., Ithaca College; M.A. (Philosophy), Columbia University; K.U. Leuven

Tucker McKinney
Email: tmckinne at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Heidegger, Reasons and Rationality, Metaphysics with a view to Morals. Secondary interests include Wittgenstein, Kant, Husserl, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of biology.
Previous Education: Bates College
Dissertation Committee: John Haugeland, Jonathan Lear, Robert Pippin
Dissertation Title: "Dasein's Reasons: Rationality and Existentiality in Heidegger's Analytic"

Santiago Mejia
Email: mejia at uchicago dot edu
Interests: I am interested in exploring what it means to know oneself, and how this knowledge affects one's life. Although I intend to aid my response by analytic reflections, in particular by certain strands of Wittgensteinian psychology, the main locus of my concern is what could be called spiritual traditions, mysticism in particular. This is just another way of saying that I am mainly interested in philosophy of psychology, Wittgenstein and philosophy of religion.
Previous education: B.A. Universidad de los Andes

Peter Murray
Email: peter at uchicago dot edu
Interests: philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophical naturalism,
Wittgenstein, Aristotle, Kant
Previous Education: B.A. in Russian and Soviet Studies (UC San Diego,
1992); B.A. in Philosophy (UC Santa Cruz, 2001) M.A. in Philosophy (UC
Santa Cruz, 2003)
Dissertation Committee: James Conant (chair), David Finkelstein, Jason Bridges
Dissertation Title: The Causal Efficacy of Normatively-Contentful Mental States: Towards a Rational Naturalism

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Daniel Ricardo Rodriguez Navas
Email: danielrn at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Phenomenology, History of 20th Century Philosophy, Epistemology, Logic, Kant
Previous Education: Paris I, Paris IV, and ENS

Gilad Nir
Email: giladnir at uchicago dot edu
Interess: Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, ancient philosophy, Medieval and Modern Aristotelianism
Previous Education: B.A. and M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jennifer Boobar Pachon
Email: j-boobar at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy of science and philosophy of social science with an emphasis on the role of experimentation in scientific methodology.
Previous Education: B.A. Swarthmore College, 1991; A.M. University of Chicago, 1993
Dissertation Advisors: William Wimsatt, Daniel Garber, Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Dissertation Title: Experimentation and the World

 

Uri Pasovsky

uri pasovsky
Email: uri at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Nietzsche, moral psychology, moral perfectionism, 19th-20th century European philosophy, philosophy and literature
Previous Education: BA, Philosophy and History, Tel Aviv University, 2003
Dissertation Committee: Robert Pippin (chair), James Conant, Arnold Davidson
Dissertation Title: TBA

Colin Patrick
Email: colin at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ethics, Action Theory, Philosophy of Language
Previous Education: BA, Philosophy and College of Letters, Wesleyan, 1998
Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler (chair), Robert Pippin, Charles Larmore
Dissertation Title: Practical Reason and Ethical Rationalism

 

Dasha Polzik

dasha polzik
Email: polzik at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Rousseau and Aristotle; civic and moral education, 'meaningful' autonomy (and what that means), the conditions under which citizens should enter the realm of public deliberation; the history of social and political thought.
Previous Education: B.A. Philosophy, Boston University, 2003. A.M., Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2006
Dissertation committee: Daniel Brudney (chair), Martha Nussbaum, Robert Pippin. Dissertation (working) title: The Good Life, According to Rousseau: Education, Autonomy, and Citizenship.

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Clark Remington
Email: clark at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Heidegger, Husserl, and Wittgenstein.
Previous Education: B.M. Indiana University (Bloomington), 1978; B.S. Indiana University (Bloomington), 1980; M.M. Indiana University (Bloomington), 1980; J.D. Columbia Law School, 1987
Dissertation Committee: John Haugeland, Michael Forster, Jim Conant
Dissertation Title: The Priority of the Temporal over the Objectual: Understanding Heidegger's Triadic Temporal Structures

Nathan Rothschild
Email: nateroth at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Heidegger, Wittgenstein
Previous Education: Yale University B.A., St Andrews M. Litt.
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum (chair), Jonathan Lear, Gabriel Richardson Lear, Jonathan Beere
Dissertation Title: The Pursuit of One's Own in Plato's Psychology

Alptekin Sanli
Email: alptekinsanli at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Kant, Heidegger, Sellars, Hegel
Previous education: Bogazici University - B.A. (Philosophy), 2005; M.A. (Philosophy), 2007

Joshua Schwartz
Email: jfs at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Quine, history of analytic philosophy, theories of truth, philosophy of maths, logic, and language
Previous Education: B.A., Philosophy, Ithaca College, 2000
Dissertation committee: Michael Kremer (chair), Josef Stern, Kevin Davey, and Peter Hylton.
Dissertation title: Strange Road Home: Quine, Disquotation, Truth.

 

Justin Shaddock

justin shaddock
Email: shaddock at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Kant, Post-Kantian German Philosophy, and Metaphysics & Epistemology.
Previous Education: B.A. Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2004
Dissertation committe: Robert Pippin (chair), Michael Forster, Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame), and Paul Franks (University of Toronto)
Dissertation title: By What Right?  An Essay on Kant's Transcendental Deduction
http://sites.google.com/site/justinshaddock

 

Stephen Shortt

stephen shortt
Email: scshortt at uchicago dot edu
Interests: I'm particularly interested in what the offspring would look like if Francis Hutcheson and Wilfrid Sellars had a baby. I blame such curiosity on my general interests in Philosophy of Mind and Aesthetics.
Previous education: Auburn University B.A. 2007, Wally High (more properly, Wallace Community College)

 

Elizabeth Shurcliff

elizabeth shurcliff
Email: shurcliff at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Ancient moral psychology and meta-philosophy
Previous education: McGill University, B.A., Philosophy, 2007.

 

Will Small

will small
Email: wsmall at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy of Mind and Action
Previous Education: University of Oxford (Wadham College), BA (Hons) Philosophy, Politics, & Economics, 2003
Dissertation Title: "The Cause of What it Understands: An Essay on Practical Knowledge"
Dissertation Committee: John Haugeland (chair), Jason Bridges, Jim Conant, Candace Vogler

William Michael Smith
Email: wmsmith at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Kant and German Idealism; Political Philosophy; Critical Race Theory
Previous Education: Emory University, BA (Religion); Harvard University MTS; New York University, MA
Dissertation Committee: Robert Pippin (chair), Dan Brudney, Robert Gooding-Williams (Political Science)
Dissertation Title: Hegel's Theory of Recognition

 

Daniel Smyth

daniel smyth
Email: dsmyth at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Hegel, Kant, Wittgenstein, Frege, Anscombe, Sellars, physical law, the
intelligibility of the 'lower' faculties, depiction, photography, film
Previous Education: AB with Honors, University of Chicago, 2005

Justin Spain
Email: jdspain at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Heidegger, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Metaphilosophy, Free Will.
Previous education: University of Minnesota, B.A., Philosophy, 2007

Michael Stephens
Email: mjstephe at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Specifically interested in perfectionism and critiques of liberal-democracy.
Previous Education: B.A. McGill University (Canada)

 

Jacob Swenson

jacob swenson
Email: jswenson at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Aristotle, Kant, Heidegger, Epistemology, History of Philosophy in the wake of Kant, the relationship between the normative and the natural.
Previous education: Willamette University (BA, 2007)

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Matthew Teichman

matt teichman
Email: teichman at uchicago dot edu
Interests (topics):metaphysics, philosophy of language, pragmatics, aesthetics, process philosophy, logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of action, philosophy of biology, film theory, philosophy of gender

Interests (figures): Wittgenstein, Bergson, Whitehead, Russell, Frege, Anscombe, Goodman, Kripke, Lewis, Heim, Kratzer, Montague, McDowell, Rescher, Varzi, Smith, Simons, Mulligan, Mays, Peirce, Spencer-Brown, Delanda, Leibniz, Aristotle

I am interested in defending the view that we articulate possibilities. The argument might be schematized into principal claims: first, that the scope of what is metaphysically possible can fluctuate over time, and second, that this fluctuation is something for which we collectively bear a degree of authorial responsibility.
Previous education: A.B. in Film and Linguistics, Cornell University, 2002.

M.A. in Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2007

M.A. in Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2009.

Tuomo Tiisala
Email: tiisala at uchicago dot edu
Interests: the changing conceptions of apriori knowledge from Kant through the Vienna station till present; history and philosophy of human sciences; Foucault
Previous education: MA, University of Helsinki, 2005

Charles Norman Todd
Email: cntodd at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy of Action, Practical Reasoning, Philosophy of Perception, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein
Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler, Martha Nussbaum, Gabriel Richardson Lear
Dissertation Title: Life Interrupted: Akrasia, Action and Active Irrationality

Julio Tuma
Email: jrtuma at uchicago dot edu
Interests: Philosophy of science, and more specifically in the philosophy of biology with a focus on complex life cycles, issues of individuality, selection, and evo-devo.
Dissertation Advisors: Bill Wimsatt, Matthew Leibold (Ecology and Evolution), Michael Green

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Nate Zuckerman

nate zuckerman
Email: nsz at uchicago dot edu
Interests:Kantian philosophy, Heidegger, the idea of conceptual and non-conceptual mental content, temporality, transcendental arguments, skepticism. Other Interests: philosophy of perception, Aristotle's ethics and metaphysics, philosophy of action and moral psychology.
Previous Education: B.A. in philosophy, Haverford College, 2002
Dissertation Committee: John Haugeland, Jonathan Lear and Robert Pippin
Dissertation Title: Being and Time and Transcendental Arguments.
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