Graduate Students

Graduate students

Travis Barnett

Graduate Student

barntrav@iu.edu

Research Interests
Early modern philosophy (especially Descartes and Malebranche), Free Will, philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy

Yifan Cao

Graduate Student

yc103@iu.edu

Research interests
ethics and meta-ethics

Luke Capek

Graduate Student

lcapek@iu.edu

Research interests
ethics, mainly metaethics and moral psychology; early modern philosophy; Wittgenstein

Kavin Chada

Graduate Student

kchada@iu.edu

Research interests
Kant, ethics, Early Buddhism, philosophy of religion, Marx, social and political philosophy

Deborah Cocheo

Graduate Student

dcocheo@iu.edu

Research interests
philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and philosophy of science; cognitive science; and the interplay of philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics, as it relates to the structures of consciousness

Shaughnessy Cudmore-Keating

Graduate Student

scudmore@iu.edu

philosophy of mind and language and the history of analytic philosophy (especially Wittgenstein)

Dan Dake

Graduate Student

rddake@iu.edu

Research interests
moral philosophy; moral psychology; virtue ethics; philosophy of attention

Alex Fiander

Graduate Student

afiander@iu.edu

epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics

Simon Foss

Graduate Student

sifoss@iu.edu

Research interests
epistemology, ontology, and the relationship between the two; logic and mathematical philosophy; literature and philosophy, the meaning of storytelling; philosophy and education, pedagogy, the instructional value of philosophy

Kjell Fostervold

Graduate Student

kfosterv@iu.edu

Research interests
moral philosophy, broadly construed to include value theory, metaethics, virtue ethics, meaning of/in life, and evil; moral psychology (especially the emotions, sentiments, or reactive attitudes); Chinese philosophy (especially classical Confucian ethics and political philosophy)

Daniel Gaines

Graduate Student

dagain@iu.edu

Research interests
Ethics, Applied Ethics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Well-Being, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law

Eli Goossens

Graduate Student

elgoosse@iu.edu

Research interests
Metaphysics (especially modality and metaontology), philosophy of religion (especially the problem of evil in Christian philosophy), and the philosophy of first-person experience

Katrina Haaksma

Graduate Student

kajahaak@iu.edu

Research interests
social ontology; social epistemology; feminist philosophy

Ashton Hoene

Graduate Student

anhoene@iu.edu

Research interests
epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind

Matthew Hoffman

Graduate Student

mah7@iu.edu

Research interests
ethics and normativity, feminist epistemology, practical ethics, philosophy of love and friendship

Paul Howatt

Graduate Student

pjhowatt@iu.edu

Research interests
value theory, especially metaethics, moral philosophy, political philosophy and applied ethics; cognitive science; psychology

Oliver Hyde

mohyde@iu.edu

Research interests
Logic, specifically logical frameworks and model theory; as well as issues in homelessness

Filippo Iorillo

Graduate Student

fiorillo@iu.edu

Research interests
early modern philosophy, Hume, Kant, post-Kantian philosophy, metaphysics, history of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of economics

Matthew Jackson

Graduate Student

mj153@iu.edu

Research interests
applied ethics, normative ethics, and social and political philosophy

Mariam Kazanjian

Graduate Student

maelkenn@indiana.edu

Research interests
ethics; moral psychology; philosophy of law

Ethan Kerns

Graduate Student

ethdkern@iu.edu

Research interests
ethics (in particular, moral psychology and moral reasoning) and Kant’s philosophy (especially Kantian ethics); history of philosophy, in early modern philosophy and post-Kantian German philosophy

Valerii Latyshev

Graduate Student

valaty@iu.edu

Research interests
free will, moral responsibility, evolution and grounding of morality

Tim Leisz

Graduate Student

twleisz@iu.edu

Research interests
metaphysics: specifically, ontology and composition, meta-ontology, personal identity and the metaphysics of persons, and the interface between metaphysics and philosophy of language; the philosophies of mind, science, logic, religion

David Lorenzo

Graduate Student

dalore@iu.edu

Research interests
metaethics; normative ethics; applied ethics

Antonio Monaco

Graduate Student

anmonaco@iu.edu

Research interests
philosophy of mind and action; ethics; Kant

James Murphy

Graduate Student

murphjaj@iu.edu

Research interests
feminist philosophy; philosophy of language; epistemology; applied ethics

Le Phuoc Dat Nguyen

Graduate Student

lenguye@iu.edu

Research interests
normative ethics, action theory, and critical epistemology

Annalise Norling

Graduate Student

anorling@iu.edu

Research interests
ethics, applied ethics, and bioethics, particularly where they intersect with the philosophy of science; epistemology; social and political philosophy

Juan Palencia

Graduate Student

jpalenc@iu.edu

Research interests
epistemology; philosophy of science; metaphysics; philosophy of logic and mathematics; history of analytical philosophy (especially Frege and Quine); Kant and German idealism

Joshua Paschal

Graduate Student

jospasch@iu.edu

Research interests
applied ethics; normative ethics; philosophy of law; social and political philosophy; history of Western philosophy; philosophy of language; philosophy religion; philosophy of history

Aaron Richardson

Graduate Student

richaaad@iu.edu

Research interests
normative ethics, metaethics, moral psychology

Matthew Rogers

Graduate Student

rogermat@iu.edu

Research interests
epistemology and philosophy of religion

Donnie Smith

Graduate Student

smithdog@iu.edu

Research interests
Aesthetics, ethics, language, history of philosophy, Wittgenstein

Andrew Steele

Graduate Student

andrstee@iu.edu

Research interests
epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language

Jacob Walerius

Graduate Student

jawaler@iu.edu

Research interests
Kant; Frege; Wittgenstein; philosophy of mind; philosophy of language

Ethan Walker

Graduate Student

etwalk@iu.edu

Research interests
metaphysics, particularly the philosophy of space and time, free will, explanation, and ontology, along with their applications to the philosophy of religion