UCR Graduate Students
Gregory Aisemberg is interested in Classical American Philosophy (James and Dewey), Process Philosophy, Nietzsche, Zen and Hua-Yen Buddhism, Social-Political Philosophy (Dewey), Bertrand Russell, and Noam Chomsky.
Zachary Bachman (B.A. UCSD; M.A. Texas A&M) is a first-year student interested in action theory, metaethics, practical reasoning.
Justin Coates (B.A., Erskine College; M.A., Georgia State University) is interested in Ethics, Philosophy of Action, and Moral Psychology.
Joe Cressotti (B.A., Yale; M.Phil., University of Glasgow) is working on aesthetic judgment, Kant, and Wittgenstein. He is also interested in Hegel and the philosophy of color.
Daniel Ehrlich (B.A. UC Santa Cruz; M.A. San Jose State University) is a second-year student. He is interested in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy.
Kevin Gin (Messiah College, Northern Illinois University; M.A.) is a first-year student. He is interested in the history of philosophy and phenomenology. He is also interested in logic, theories of truth, and the philosophy of language and logic.
Jason Gray is interested in Agency Theory, Ethics, and Philosophy of Mind.
Heinrik Z. Hellwig (B.A., John Carroll University; M.A., Texas A&M University). His generic interests are in legal and political philosophy. More specific interests of his are issues concerning the rule of law, issues in constitutional law, and antitrust. He firmly eschews using the suffix '-ism' in his writing, though he concedes that its use is appropriate in certain circumstances. That said, he is known to dabble in pragmatism from time to time.
Jorgen Hansen (B.A. Utah Valley University) is a first-year student interested primarily in free will and moral psychology, especially from the approaches of experimental philosophy and cognitive science. He is also interested in metaphysics, philosophy of psychology and animal ethics.
Bach Ho (B.S. [Computer Science], UC Irvine; M.A., Arizona State University) is interested in Ethics.
Joshua Hollowell is interested in Free Will, Agency, Moral Philosophy, and Philosophy of Religion.
Mark Johnson is a third-year student.
John Linarelli is interested in Philosophy of Law, including analytical jurisprudence and deontological accounts of the law; Moral Philosophy, particularly contractualist and Kantian approaches; Political Philosophy; global justice; Applied Ethics; and German Idealism.
Patrick Londen (B.A. Columbia University) is a first-year student interested in phenomenology, and philosophy of psychology.
Samantha Matherne (B.A. and M.A. [Religious Studies], University of Pennsylvania) Samantha is interested in European Philosophy in 18th-20th centuries, especially Kant and Phenomenology. She is also interested in the philosophy of perception and aesthetics. In her dissertation, she is exploring the the interconnections between Kant's doctrine of Schematism, the Critique of Judgment, and the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.
Meredith McFadden Meredith McFadden (BA Beloit College, MA University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) is interested in Philosophy of Action and Moral Psychology. In particular she enjoys working on the normativity involved in practical reasoning and the relation between this normativity, metaethics, and the human sciences.
Chris McVey (B.A., University of Washington) is a first year student. His interests lie primarily in the realm of ethics, including normative ethical theory, applied ethics, moral psychology, and the rights of both humans and non-human animals. He is also interested in the history of modern philosophy and free will.
Benjamin Mitchell-YellinYellin (B.A. [Creative Writing and Literature], University of Michigan; M.A., Boston College) is a fourth-year graduate student at UC Riverside. His main philosophical interests are in ethics and the philosophy of action. His dissertation develops a method for isolating the conception of us presupposed by various moral theories and theories of self-governance. For more information, visit his homepage.
Luis Montes (B.A., Azusa Pacific University). Luis's interests range across the fields of Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Religion. Philosophical movements and figures that interest him include Medieval Philosophy, Phenomenology, and philosophical rationalism; Plato, Augustine, Anselm, Leibniz, Husserl, and Heidegger. He is currently exploring issues in virtue epistemology, the ethics of belief, time and persistence, ontology, and intentionality.
Alan Moore is interested in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Metaphysics.
Courtney Morris is interested in History of Philosophy, Kant, Hegel, and Philosophy of Language.
Maxwell Murphey (B.A., Columbia University) is a second-year student. He is interested in phenomenology, the philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and figures in the history of modern philosophy such as Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger.
Jonah Nagashima (B.A., Biola University; M.A., Northern Illinois University) is a first-year student. He is interested in Metaphysics (especially Free Will), Decision Theory, and Philosophy of Religion.
Christian Pillsbury (B.A. New College, Florida) is a first-year student interested in continental and analytic philosophy and epistemology.
John Ramsey (B.A., Ursinus College; M.A., UC Riverside) is currently writing a proposition on the relationship between the first person indexical and perception, focusing on the relationship's implications for action. His main interest in philosophy is the interplay between mind and language, particularly the nonlinguistic and linguistic content of thoughts, perception, theories of reference, and action theory. Other interests include Early Modern Philosophy, especially Descartes and Spinoza and; ritual, social norms, and abilities in early Confucianism and early Doaism; and an abiding interest in Kierkegaard and Socrates.
Patrick Ryan (University of New Hampshire; B.A.) is a second-year student. His main interest is in history of philosophy and ethics.
Robert Sanchez (B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., UC Riverside) is interested in the History of Analytic Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, and Existentialism.
Scott Sevier (B.A. [Psychology], University of Memphis; M.A. [Biblical & Theological Studies], Biola University; M.A. [Philosophy of Religion & Ethics], Biola University; M.A. [Philosophy], University of California-Irvine). Scott is interested primarily in Ancient and Medieval philosophy, especially in eudaimonist theories of ethics (notably Aristotle's, Augustine's and Aquinas') and moral psychology, though he has interests as well in Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Theology.
Megan Henricks Stotts (B.A., Denison University) is a second-year student. She is primarily interested in philosophy of language, including the application of philosophy of language to other areas of philosophy such as metaethics and philosophy of religion.
Philip Swenson (M.A., University of Missouri) is a third-year student.
Will Swanson (B. A. [Philosophy and English], Pomona College) is a first-year student interested in the history of modern philosophy. More specifically, he is interested in European philosophy beginning with Kant, and he focuses special attention on ethics and on Nietzsche. Meanwhile, he is nursing nascent but vital thematic interests in philosophy construed as a way of life (as by, e.g., Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault) and in the study of ascetic practices and spiritual exercises.
Patrick Todd (B.A., Baylor University; M.A., University of Missouri) is working on Free Will, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Religion. An avid cyclist, he spent the summer of 2007 as a mountain bike tour guide in Jackson, Wyoming. For now, he has resumed the far more exhilarating task of understanding the relationships between libertarian free agency, philosophy of time (especially presentism), and a plausible theory of truth-makers.
Eric Dane Walker (B.S., B.A., Montana State University; M.A. University of Montana). Eric is a second-year student. He wonders about the normative conditions for the possibility of logic, mathematics, and natural science, and studies those philosophers who have worked to identify such conditions, philosophers such as Kant, Frege, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Occasionally, he alights on topics in metaethics and action and agency theory.
Justin White (B.A. [Philosophy and English] Brigham Young University) is a second-year graduate student at UC Riverside. His primary interests are 19th and 20th-century Continental philosophy, particularly phenomenology and hermeneutics. He is also interested in philosophy of language, metaphysics, literature, and religion.
Monique Wonderly (B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Western Michigan University) is primarily interested in Theoretical Ethics, including normative ethics, metaethics and moral epistemology; Philosophy of Action, especially moral responsibility; and Moral Psychology. She also has a strong secondary interest in Applied Philosophy, including practical ethics, philosophy for children and philosophy of education.