Graduate Students
Of the 275 applicants for the Fall 2011 graduate program, the Department proudly welcomes 6 new PhD students and 8 new M.A. students.
In the academic year 2011-2012 the Department awarded 9 PhDs and 4 MA degrees.
Here is what some of our current students are working on:
David Aleksic
Areas of interest: Legal Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Ethics
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: Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Kant and German Idealism, Philosophy of Mind
Vaughn Cartwright
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Social Science, Critical Theory of Society, Intentionality and Mental Representation, Marx, Peirce, Husserl
Colin Cmiel
Areas of interest: Phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger), Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Perception, and Philosophy of Music
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 (injustice, political responsibility, civil disobedience), Philosophy of Law, Ethics (normative and applied), Feminist Philosophy.
Dissertation Tile: “The Duty to Disobey”
Andreas Elpidorou
Website: http://elpidorou.org
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science (especially, Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Cognitive Science), Metaphysics, and Phenomenology
Dissertation Title: “On Sensible Matters: A Defense of Conceptual Dualism”
Sarah Farkas
Areas of interest: German Idealism (Hegel), Kant, History of Ethics, Contemporary Ethics
Hege C. Finholt
Areas of interest: Contemporary Political Philosophy, Sovereignty, Nationalism, Democracy, Philosophy of Law, History of Ethics, Practical Philosophy
Wheeler Frost
Areas of interest: Hume, Ethics
Stacey Goguen
Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Race, Feminist Philosophy, Epistemology
John Grey
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/jrtgrey
Areas of interest: Early modern philosophy, logic, metaphysics, perception, and philosophy of science
I-Kai Jeng
Areas of Interest: Ethics and Political Philosophy (conceptions of ethics, onto-theo-political intersections, philosophical genres, emotions, social theories), Classical Philosophy and Modernity, Translation
Brian Julian
Areas of interest: Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy
Johnathan Kelly
Areas of interest: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Theories of Justice, Post-Holocaust Thought, Kant, Arendt
Jordan Kokot
Areas of interest: 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy (particularly Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger), Aesthetics (focused on Philosophy of Literature), and Critical Theory (particularly the Frankfurt School and Lukács)
Karolina Lewestam
Areas of interest: Ethics, Theory of action
Eduardo Coutinho Lourenço de Lima
Website: http://phi.pro.br
Areas of interest: Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Ethics, Philosophy of Language
Nolan Little
Areas of interest: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Law, Logic
Brian Marrin
Areas of interest: Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Metaphysics
Josh McDonald
Areas of interest: feminism, metaphysics of time, Levinas, phenomenology, and ethics
Irina Meketa
Website: http://blogs.bu.edu/irinam/about
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Animal Cognition Sciences, Philosophy of Biology, Bioethics, and Ethics
Dissertation Title: “Objectivity and Skepticism in the Animal Cognition Sciences”
Jay Mikelman
Areas of interest: Hobbes, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Anandita Mukherji
Areas of interest: Political philosophy, Ethics and 19th and 20th Century German philosophy
Lynn Niizawa
Areas of interest: Justification of belief; Ethics, Imagination
Mark Pickering
Areas of interest: Early modern philosophy (in particular Kant), epistemology, philosophy of law, political philosophy
Yonatan Porat
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Law, and History of Analytic Philosophy
Erick Rabin
Areas of interest: Political Philosophy, Contemporary Ethics, Jewish Philosophy
Elizabeth Ann Robinson
Kant, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Architecture
Dissertation Title: “Speaking in Circles: Metaphysics and Mathematics in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason”
Benjamin Roth
Areas of interest: The Relationship between Philosophy and Literature, Narrative, Heidegger, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Hegel
Elisabeta Sarca
Website: http://people.bu.edu/lizuca/
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Hume, Leibniz
Åsa Söderman
Areas of interest: Political and Moral Philosophy, History of 18th- and 19th-Century Philosophy
Dissertation title: John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of History
Ryan Sosna
Areas of interest: Pragmatism, Epistemology/Phenomenology, Transcendental Philosophy
Carolyn Suchy-Dicey
Website: http://people.bu.edu/suchyd
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Perception, and Applied Ethics
Bruce Taub
Areas of interest: Ancient Philosophy (esp. Plato); History of Social and Political Philosophy; History of Ethics; Business Ethics
Josh Wood
Areas of interest: Early Modern Philosophy, Kant and German Idealism, Theory of Action, and Skepticism
MaryCatherine Youmell
Areas of interest: Philosophy and Narrative, Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, American Philosophy (especially Emerson), Philosophy and Film, Philosophy of Religion