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Graduate Students
Wania Batul Ahmad
Graduate Student
Value Theory
Office:
Dodd Hall 343
wahmad@humnet.ucla.edu
Javier Arango
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd Hall 317
jarango@humnet.ucla.edu
Nicholas Ashworth
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd Hall 371
nashworth@humnet.ucla.edu
Sarah Beach
Graduate Student (on leave)
Social and Political, Meta-Ethics, and Feminist Philosophy
sbeach@humnet.ucla.edu
David Bordeaux
Graduate Student (on leave)
dbordeaux@humnet.ucla.edu
Akacia Brillon
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd Hall 343
abrillon@humnet.ucla.edu
Timothy Buchanan
Graduate Student (on leave)
Reasons for action and belief, Greek philosophy
tbuchanan@humnet.ucla.edu
Robert Campbell
Graduate Student
Moral, political, and social philosophy; especially moral psychology, normative ethics,
Office:
Dodd Hall 363
rcampbell@humnet.ucla.edu
Tristen Cardwell
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Language and Language Revitalization, Philosophy of Mind
Office:
Dodd Hall 363
tcardwell@humnet.ucla.edu
Jacob Chen
Graduate Student
Political Philosophy, Ethics, and Philosophy of Language/Metaethics
Office:
Dodd Hall 317
jc177@g.ucla.edu
Jaewon Choe
Graduate Student (on leave)
Ethics, Social Identity and Self, Epistemology
Office:
Dodd Hall 343
jchoe@humnet.ucla.edu
Lavi Echeverria
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science
Office:
Dodd Hall 367
lecheverria@humnet.ucla.edu
Mona Fazeli
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Office:
Dodd Hall 343
monafazeli@humnet.ucla.edu
Adam Fontenot
Graduate Student (on leave)
Ethics, Ancient Philosophy
afontenot@humnet.ucla.edu
William Fraker
Graduate Student
Philosophy of language, philosophy of cognitive science, social epistemology
Office:
Dodd Hall 375
wfraker@humnet.ucla.edu
Kenny Galbraith
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Office:
Dodd 375
kgalbraith@humnet.ucla.edu
Sare Ghorbani Khaledi
Graduate Student
Kant and Leibniz
Office:
Dodd Hall 375
skhaledi@humnet.ucla.edu
James Gu
Graduate Student
Language, Mind, Computation, Metaphysics
Office:
Dodd Hall 375
jamesgu@humnet.ucla.edu
Leo Youle Guo
Graduate Student
Ancient Greek, Early Modern, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics
Office:
Dodd 375
guoyoule@humnet.ucla.edu
Carlos Gutierrez
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd 375
cgutierrez@humnet.ucla.edu
Colleen Hanson
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Epistemology
Office:
Dodd 371
crhanson@humnet.ucla.edu
Rita Hao
Graduate Student
Epistemology, Ethics
Office:
Dodd Hall 371
rhao@humnet.ucla.edu
Catherine Hochman
Graduate Student
Mind, Self, and Chinese Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 394
chochman@humnet.ucla.edu
James Johnson
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd Hall 343
jamesjohnson@humnet.ucla.edu
Jennifer Kanyuk
Graduate Student (on leave)
Moral and Political Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychology
Office:
Dodd Hall 375
jede@humnet.ucla.edu
John Kardosh
Graduate Student (on leave)
jkardosh@humnet.ucla.edu
Amber Kavka-Warren
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Political Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 363
kavka2018@lawnet.ucla.edu
Samantha Lannan
Graduate Student
Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Political Philosophy, Marx, Metaphysics.
Office:
Dodd Hall 394
slannan@humnet.ucla.edu
Seungtaek Lee
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Language, Semantics/Pragmatics, Philosophy of Mind
Office:
Dodd Hall 343
stlee@ucla.edu
Jung Suk Lee
Graduate Student
Ancient Greek Philosophy (esp. Aristotle), Ethics, Action, Mind
Office:
Dodd Hall 363
jslee@humnet.ucla.edu
Clyde LeMoine
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Action, Neo-Aristotelianism, Meta-Ethics, History of Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 371
clemoine@humnet.ucla.edu
Savannah Leon
Graduate Student (on leave)
Epistemology, psychology, language
Office:
Dodd Hall 363
skl@ucla.edu
Tang Li
Graduate Student
Ancient Greek Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, Moral Psychology
Office:
Dodd Hall 367
tli@humnet.ucla.edu
Jürgen Lipps
Graduate Student
Kant's Ethics, Freud, and Moral Psychology
Office:
Dodd Hall 363
jurgenlipps@humnet.ucla.edu
Jon Xudong Ma
Graduate Student
Knowledge, Language, Perception
Office:
Dodd Hall 367
jonm@humnet.ucla.edu
Mikaela Mackenzie
Graduate Student
Epistemology and ethics
Office:
Dodd Hall 363
mgmackenzie@humnet.ucla.edu
Nadia Miller
Graduate Student
Philosophy of language; social, political and legal philosophy.
Office:
Shapiro Courtyard
nmiller@humnet.ucla.edu
Courtney Minor
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Political Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 343
courtneyminor@humnet.ucla.edu
Hani Mohseni
Graduate Student
Philosophy in the Islamic World, Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology
Office:
Dodd 371
hanimohseni@humnet.ucla.edu
Esther Nikbin
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd Hall 394
enikbin@humnet.ucla.edu
Torsten Odland
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd 395
todland@humnet.ucla.edu
Thomas Ogg
Graduate Student
Aesthetics, philosophy of race, ethics
Office:
Dodd Hall 367
togg@humnet.ucla.edu
Ahron Oh
Graduate Student
Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 367
ahronoh@humnet.ucla.edu
Alexander Patsaouras
Graduate Student
Ethics, Philosophy of Law
apatsaour@humnet.ucla.edu
David Pederson
Graduate Student
Ancient Philosophy, Social-Political Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 317
dpederson@humnet.ucla.edu
Alexandra Pelaez
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd 317
apelaez@humnet.ucla.edu
Samuel Pensler
Graduate Student
Ethics and Political Philosophy (especially Democratic Theory)
Office:
Dodd Hall 371
spensler@humnet.ucla.edu
Alonso R. Molina
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Mind, Perception, Philosophy of Memory, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
Office:
Royce 154
alonsorm@humnet.ucla.edu
Jonah Wolf Ragir
Graduate Student
Ethics, History of German Idealism, Social and Political Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 317
jwolfragir@humnet.ucla.edu
Nefeli Ralli
Graduate Student
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Meta-ethics
Office:
Dodd Hall 317
Daniel Ranweiler
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd Hall 363
danranweiler@humnet.ucla.edu
Jacob Reid
Graduate Student
Philosophy of Psychology/Mind and Computational Theory of Mind
Office:
Dodd Hall 317
jreid@humnet.ucla.edu
Megan Robb
Graduate Student (on leave)
robb@humnet.ucla.edu
Kyle Scott
Graduate Student
Social & political philosophy, esp. 19th C. German thought, alienation, work, & capitalism
Office:
Dodd Hall 394
kscott@humnet.ucla.edu
Vaheh Shirvanian
Graduate Student (on leave)
Office:
Dodd Hall 317
vshirvanian@humnet.ucla.edu
Sahiba Sindhu
Graduate Student
Ethics, social and political philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 394
ssindhu@humnet.ucla.edu
Paul Talma
Graduate Student
Philosophy of computation, logic, and cognitive science
Office:
Dodd Hall 394
ptalma@humnet.ucla.edu
Seadona Taloma
Graduate Student
Social and Political, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Office:
Dodd 367
staloma@humnet.ucla.edu
Khalilah Walters
Graduate Student
Office:
Dodd Hall 325
kwalters@humnet.ucla.edu
Alexis Sixing Wang
Graduate Student
Ethics, Moral Psychology, Social and Political Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 367
swang@humnet.ucla.edu
Hannah Widmaier
Graduate Student
Ethics, Political Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 375
hwidmaier@g.ucla.edu
Jenny Wu
Graduate Student
Epistemology, Language, Social Metaphysics, and Ethical Dilemmas
Office:
Dodd Hall 371
jennyyichenwu@ucla.edu
Ziyan Yang
Graduate Student
philosophy of action, ethics, philosophy of mind, history of philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 367
zyang@humnet.ucla.edu
Zeynep Yildiz
Graduate Student
Moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law
Office:
Dodd Hall 375
zyildiz@humnet.ucla.edu
Ekin Zeytinoglu
Graduate Student
Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Legal Philosophy
Office:
Dodd Hall 343
ezeytinoglu@humnet.ucla.edu
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