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Incoming Class of 2017


Ali Aenehzodaee

Ali Aenehzodaee

B.A. History, Philosophy (minor Maths), Southern Methodist University, 2014
M.A. Philosophy, Northern Illinois University, 2017
 
My research interests surround topics in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and cognition. Lately, I've been interested in the ways that foundational logical concepts such as truth and validity relate to - or manifest themselves in - natural language and reasoning.
 
Beyond academics, I enjoy traveling around the Great Lakes and participating in the cultural life of the city. 
 

Soyeong An

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B.A. Philosophy, English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, 2010
M.A. Philosophy, Ewha Womans University, 2012 

My philosophical interests always come down to the two questions I would like to find a way to reconcile: What are the natures of things in the world and how do we know them? Especially, I am interested in dealing with these questions in relation to the philosophy of science, i.e., investigating the metaphysical and epistemological natures of the things described by scientific theories. The related topics I am interested in are: laws of nature, causation, scientific explanation, and scientific realism. I am also interested in the more general topics in epistemology such as knowledge, justification, and perceptual justification.  


Tyler Cook

A.B. Philosophy, University of Georgia, 2015
M.A. Philosophy, Arizona State University, 2017

 Although my philosophical interests are many, my primary areas of research are ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. Much of my current reading and work in normative ethics involves seeking a plausible middle ground between absolutist forms of deontology and act consequentialism, such as a moderate deontology or two-level consequentialist theory. I was inspired to undertake this project in light of the perceived advantages and disadvantages of absolutist deontology and act consequentialism, and I am particularly interested in questions about wedding the advantages of the two theories. I am also interested in various topics in applied ethics, such as how moral concepts like autonomy and moral status figure in debates in bioethics. Most of my interest in philosophy of mind centers on emergentism, and I am especially interested in the alleged problems with emergentist accounts of mental causation and thinking about how the emergentist might be able to resolve such worries. Finally, my research interests in philosophy of religion largely concern issues of logical compatibility that arise in consideration of God’s essential properties.

 My interests (or activities) outside of philosophy include, but are not limited to, drinking good beer with good conversationalists, shredding my Gibson Les Paul, and trying out new things.


Todd DeRose

 
M.A.R. Yale Divinity School, 2017
B.A. Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2015
 
My main academic interests are in philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, and early modern philosophy, with particular attention to George Berkeley's contributions to each of the above.
 
I am developing strong secondary interests in constructive empiricism, perceptual content, metaphilosophy, and the epistemology of disagreement.
 

Damon Stanley

 

 

 

 

 



B.Sc. Mathematics, B.A. Philosophy, University of Alabama 2015

I am primarily interested in logical paradoxes and their solutions as those pertain to language, rationality and knowledge. I have a side interest in luck of both moral and non-moral varieties and outside of philosophy in poetry and programming.