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Incoming Class of 2014

Tim Berryman  

M.A. University of Oklahoma, 2013

B.A. Franklin & Marshall College, 2011

My research interests lie primarily in Ancient Philosophy, specifically in the metaphysics, ethics, and their intersection in the works of Plato and Aristotle. My master's thesis argued for a new interpretation of "parts" in Plato's tripartite psychology. More broadly, I'm interested in ethics and metaphysics, especially philosophy of language and virtue ethics, as well as history of modern philosophy.

 

Eric Brauer

B.A. Physics and Philosophy, DePauw University 2014

I am primarily interested in math, logic, and metaphysics. Issues I find interesting include the viability of fictionalism about numbers, how the formal and informal notions of proof relate, what mathematical logic can teach us about philosophy of mathematics, and philosophical motivations for non-classical logics. I also have tangential interests in Frege and formal epistemology.

 

Ben Cleary

B.A. University of Nebraska, Omaha, 2013

My interests are currently in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics.  I find the content of proper names to be a particularly intriguing issue.  I am also interested in natural kind terms and indexicals.  As for Metaphysics, I am interested in properties, the ontology of numbers, and causation.

 

Steven Dalglish

BSc. Mathematics and Philosophy with Specialism in Logic and Foundations, University of Warwick, 2014.

My primary interests lie in the philosophy of logic, language, mathematics and computation. In particular, I am quite ​preoccupied by paradoxes and the topics surrounding them -- the semantic paradoxes perhaps being my main focus. This said, ​I often like to draw on a wide range of tools to approach the problems, and hence I also dabble with some mathematical logic (notably, non-wellfounded set theory and axiomatic truth theories), proof theory, computability theory, linguistics and mathematics. Further to these interests, I naturally enjoy studying the history of philosophy, mathematics ​and computer science. In my spare time, I am also an avid drummer.

 

Evan Thomas

B.A Philosophy,  New York University, 2013

My primary interest is in early modern philosophy and the work of John Locke and George Berkeley. I am particularly interested in how these philosophers and others in the early modern period think about the mind and scientific explanation. I am also interested in contemporary debates about these issues. I suspect that a proper understanding of the nature of scientific explanation will undermine the case for materialism about the mind. 

I am also interested in animal liberation.