Of the 230 applicants for the Fall 2006 graduate program, the Department proudly welcomes 8 new PhD students and 7 Masters students.

During 2005-2006 graduate students participated in giving over 25 papers at academic conferences and nearly 20 works were edited, reviewed or published by graduate students.

In the academic year 2005-2006 the Department awarded 7 PhDs and 1 MA degree.

Here is what some of our current students are working on:

David Aleksic
Areas of interest: Legal philosophy, ancient philosophy

Maren Behrensen
Areas of interest: Contemporary issues in ethics, Kant, philosophy of law, metaphysics of personhood and free will

Shai Biderman
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Film and Literature, Aesthetics, Nietzsche, Existentialism, Phenomenology and Cultural Criticism

Ian Blaustein
Areas of interest: History of philosophy, both German and otherwise; ancient and early modern mathematics

Timothy Brownlee
Areas of interest: Hegel, Kant and German idealism, Heidegger, moral and political philosophy
Prospectus title: "Hegel's Concept of Conscience: The Place of Moral Freedoms in Politics"

Stefan Cojocaru
Areas of interest: Kant, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, phenomenology, moral and political philosophy, moral psychology

Dimitri Constant
Area of interest: Logic and methodology of science
Prospectus title: “The Standard Interpretation of Higher-Order Variables in Modern Logic and the Concept of Function in Mathematics”

Candice Delmas
Areas of interest: Social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, history of philosophy

William J. Devlin
Areas of interest: Philosophy of science, truth, Nietzsche, existentialism
Prospectus title: "Defending the Enterprise: A Theory of Truth for Thomas Kuhn"

Andreas Elpidorou
Website: http://people.bu.edu/aselpido
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Physics: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Arrow of Time, and Causation. 20th Centuery Continental: Deleuze.

Iskra Fileva
Areas of interest: Metaethics, practical reasoning, moral psychology, self-knowledge

Hege C. Finholt
Area of interest: Early modern and contemporary political theory with an emphasis on moral and legal aspects.

Lauren Freeman
Areas of interest: Heidegger, Nietzsche, history of ethics

Luciana Garbayo, M.D.
Areas of interest: Metaphysics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of perception, bioethics

Andy German
Areas of interest: Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger, ancient and modern metaphysics and political philosophy

Khalil Habib
Areas of interest: Political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics

Jonathan Hanen
Areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, political philosophy, history of philosophy
Prospectus title: "Self-Knowledge and the Art of Politics in Plato's Alcibiades Major"

David Jennings
Areas of interest: Ethics, ancient philosophy (Plato and Aristotle), history of philosophy

Besim Karakadilar
Area of interest: Philosophy of mathematics

Kaleb Keefer
Areas of interest: Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Neuroscience

Jamie Terence Kelly
Website: http://people.bu.edu/kellyjt
Areas of interest: Political philosophy, ethics, Kant
Prospectus title: "Democracy and Political Incompetence"

Gal Kober
Website: http://people.bu.edu/gal
Areas of interest: Philosophy of biology, environmental ethics

Karolina Lewestam
Areas of interest: Ethics, theory of action

Monica Link
Areas of interest: Ethics, philosophy of language and logic

Alice MacLachlan
Areas of interest: Ethics (moral psychology, normative ethics), feminist philosophy, political philosophy, Hannah Arendt
Prospectus title: "The Nature and Limits of Forgiveness"

Brian Marrin
Areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, political philosophy and metaphysics

Austin Matzko
Website: http://people.bu.edu/matzko
Areas of interest: Logic, German idealism

Kirsten McKillop
Areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, political philosophy

Irina Meketa
Areas of interest: Ethics, political philosophy

Matthew Meyer
Areas of interest: 19th century German philosophy, ancient philosophy, Nietzsche and Plato

Lynn Niizawa
Areas of interest: Justification of belief; ethics, imagination

Frances Ng
Areas of interest: Wittgenstein, contemporary philosophy

Regan Penaluna
Areas of interest: Early modern philosophy, feminist thought
Prospectus title: "Moral Philosophy and Feminism in Masham (1659-1708), Astell (1666-1731), and Cockburn (1679-1749)"

Mark Pickering
Areas of interest: History of philosophy (in particular German idealism) as well as ethical, legal, and political philosophy

Laurie Pohl, PhD
Areas of interest: Philosophy of science, particularly objectivity; the nature of scientific knowledge, and its intersection with philosophy of logic and mathematics

Anthony Reeves
Areas of interest: Ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law

Orla Richardson
Areas of interest: Philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, pragmatism

Elisabeta Sarca
Website: http://people.bu.edu/lizuca/
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Hume, Leibniz

Matthew Schaffer
Areas of interest: Logic, elections, ethics, possible worlds

Carolyn Suchy-Dicey
Areas of interest: Philosophy of physics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics

Chris W. Surprenant
Website: http://people.bu.edu/cwsurpre
Areas of interest: Political philosophy, moral philosophy, Kant

Abdur-Rahman Syed
Areas of interest: Platonic, continental and Islamic strands of the philosophy-poetry debate

John Tietze
Areas of interest: Logic and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as the developmental history of these two fields; feminist and pragmatist philosophy; and the very idea of semantic theory

Ingvild Torsen
Areas of interest: 20th century continental philosophy; aesthetics; Kant and post-Kantian German philosophy; Wittgenstein
Dissertation title: "After Aesthetics: Martin Heidegger and the End of Art"

Alessandro Torza
Areas of interest: Analytic metaphysics: Individuality, identification and existence; mereology and mereotopology; substance vs. process theories. Husserlian phenomenology: Ontological dependence and closure algebras. Philosophy of science: Individuality in quantum mechanics; quasi-set theories.

Charles T. Wolfe
Areas of interest: Early modern materialism, history and philosophy of biology
Dissertation title: "Locating Mind in the Causal World: Locke, Collins and Enlightened Determinism" (May 2006)

Josh Wood
Area of interest: Hegel

Will Wood
Areas of interest: Parmenides, Herakleitos, metaphysics, Walter Benjamin

Tyler Wunder
Areas of interest: Philosophy of religion, epistemology
Prospectus title: "Warrant and Religious Epistemology: A Critique of Alvin Plantinga's Warrant Phase"

Kazuaki Yoda
Areax of interest: Ancient philosophy, history of philosophy

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