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Graduate Students

Elle Benjamin

ybenjami@philos.umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Feminist Philosophy

 

Jean Pierre Cordero Rojas
South College E408

jcorderoroja@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  W 3:45PM - 5:00PM and by appointment

Cruz Davis
South College E412

cruzdavis@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Math, Science, and Religion

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  M 2:45PM - 3:45PM and by appointment

Justin Dealy
South College E306

jdealy@philos.umass.edu

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Areas of Interest: Decision Theory, Ethics, Metaethics, Epistemology

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  TH 1:30PM - 3:30PM and by appointment - Remote only

Magdalene Dimitriadou
South College E410

mdimitriadou@umass.edu

Areas of Interest:

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  F 11:00AM - 1:00PM and by appointment

Elham Faghanimehr

efaghanimehr@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

 

 

Sophia Giddens
South College E320

sgiddens@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  W 2:30PM - 3:30PM and by appointment

Firdaus Gupte
South College E418

fgupte@umass.edu

Areas of Interest:  Metaphysics, Logic, Ethics

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  M 11:00AM - 12:00PM and by appointment - Remote only

Daniel Hadad

dhadad@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Epistemology, Formal Epistemology

Shane Henckel
South College E406

shenckel@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Epistemology, Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  TBA

Dennis Kavlakoglu

dkavlako@philos.umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Youngchan Lee
South College E318

youngchanlee@umass.edu

Areas of Interest:  Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

 

Victor Ma

vema@philos.umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Formal Epistemology, Metaethics

 

Moisés Macías Bustos
South College E316

mmaciasbusto@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Metametaphysics, Philosophy of Physics, Formal Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  By appointment only

Emelia Miller
South College E312

emeliamiller@umass.edu

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Areas of Interest: Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Metaphysics

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  T 1:30PM - 3:30PM and by appointment

Thomas Morrison
South College E314

tpmorrison@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Science

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  T 1:30PM - 2:30PM and by appointment

Keehyuk Nahm

knahm@umass.edu

Area of interest: Metaphysics

 

José Navarro Talavera
South College E306

jnavarrotala@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Epistemology, Logic, Metaphysics

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  M 12:10PM - 1:00PM and by appointment

Ryan Olsen
South College E322

raolsen@umass.edu

Area of interest: Metaphysics

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  Remote - By appointment only 

Chaeyoung Paek

cpaek@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, Social Ontology, Philosophy of Art

 

Gioia Pappalardo

gpappalardo@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Art & Architecture, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy

 

Marina Pérez del Valle
South College E310

mperezdelval@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Ancient Philosophy, Contemporary Moral Philosophy

 

Jillian Powell
South College E322

jillpowell@umass.edu

Areas of Interest:  Epistemology, Applied Epistemology, Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Mind

 

Mathura Samaram
South College E318

msamaram@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics (esp. Modal), Early Modern & Ancient History of Metaphysics

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  F 11:00AM - 12:00PM and by appointment

Yasemin Sar
South College E310

muzeyyenyase@umass.edu

Areas of Interest:  Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  F 12:30PM - 1:30PM and by appointment

Samuel Schechter
South College E408

sschechter@umass.edu

Area of Interest: Metaphysics

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  T TH 3:45PM - 5:00PM and by appointment

Ece Senbas
South College E316

esenbas@umass.edu

Areas of Interest:  Metaphysics, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Polical Philosophy

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  M 12:20PM - 1:20PM and by appointment

Thomas Shea

tshea@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  T TH 3:30PM-4:30PM and by appointment - Remote only

Rebecca Staneslow
South College E312

rstaneslow@umass.edu

Areas of Interest:  Social Epistemology, Applied Ethics, Feminist Philosophy

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  M W 11:00AM - 12:00PM and by appointment

David Turon
South College E418

dturon@umass.edu

Areas of interest: Metaphysics, Metaethics

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  T 10:00AM-12:00PM and by appointment

Brian Wermcrantz
South College E320

wermcrantz@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Epistemology, Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  TH 9:15AM - 11:15AM and by appointment

Matt Whitlock
South College E412

mwhitlock@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science and Epistemology

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  W 1:00PM - 2:30PM and by appointment

Erin Wiebe
South College E322

ewiebe@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  T TH 11:30AM - 12:30PM and by appointment

Minghui Yang
South College E406

minghuiyang@umass.edu

Areas of Interest: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Spring 2023 Office Hours:  M 2:00PM - 3:00PM and by appointment - Remote only