Graduate Students

Che, Taekyung (Tae) - received his B.A. and M.A from Yonsei University. His areas of interest are philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of physics, and philosophy of action.

Chen, Yukun - received his B.A. in Philosophy from East China Normal University and was an exchange student at University of Connecticut, Storrs. His primary area of interest lies in the Philosophy of Perception (especially in the problem of evaluative perception), with secondary interests in the Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, and Cognitive Science. His dissertation aims to explore affordance perception (the perception of action possibilities offered by the environment relative to a perceiver‘s abilities e.g., seeing a handle as graspable) and to apply it to explaining moral perception (the perceptual grasp of moral features e.g., seeing a event as calling for help).

Choi, Eun Sung - received his B.A and M.A in philosophy from Seoul National University. His primary interests are in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. 

Email:  exc3053@miami.edu

He, Qian - received her B.A. from Peking University, and MLitt from the University of St. Andrews and Stirling Joint Program. Primary interests are in epistemology and philosophy of mind. has a second interest in decision theory, especially in the treatment of transformative experiences, uncertainty, risks, and regret attitudes.

Hoogerhyde, Dan - received a B.A. in Philosophy from The College of New Jersey and an M.S. in Philosophy from Florida State University. His primary interests are in value theory, well-being, consequentialism, and applied ethics.  

Hussaini, Wali - received his BSc (Hons) in Political Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences and his MA in Philosophy from Durham University. His primary interests are metaethics, political philosophy, and value theory (broadly construed). He is working to develop a pragmatist metaethics – inspired particularly by the work of C.S. Peirce – which can potentially resolve some fundamental issues in moral philosophy. He hopes to build upon this work in the future towards a pragmatist political philosophy. His philosophical interests also include the history of philosophy (especially ancient, 18 ^th and 19 ^th century), environmental ethics, and metaphysics.

Email: sxh1230@miami.edu

Jaques, Daniel - received his BA in philosophy from the University of Richmond, and MA in philosophy from Texas Tech University. His areas of interest are metaphysics and aesthetics. He has a special interest in color.

Maher, Thomas - received a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.A. in Honors English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She especially enjoys thinking about issues in applied ethics, feminist philosophy, the philosophy of love, social epistemology, social ontology, legal philosophy, and philosophy of film and literature. However, pretty much anything and everything interests her!

Martinez Barboza, Luis Enrique - received his B.A. in Philosophy from University of Florida and his M.A. in Philosophy from University of Miami. His main interests are Ethics of Technology and Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy of Mind.

Masterson, Dylan - received his B.S. in Political Science and M.A. in Philosophy at Florida State University. His primary interests are Social Ontology, Feminist Philosophy, and Value Theory.

Matveev, Philip (Filipp) - I am interested in philosophy of science and metaphysics— especially scientific realism, ontic structural realism, and naturalized metaphysics. I hold a BA in Philosophy from Lomonosov Moscow State University and an MA in Philosophy from San Francisco State University.

Email: crm225@miami.edu

Odito, John - is interested in Ethics, Ontology and the Philosophy of Mind. In particular, he is interested in the ethical dimensions of maturity: he is interested in studying maturity, not just as a developmental phenomenon, as they do in humanistic psychology, but also as a moral phenomenon, in particular, as a distinct virtue, just like the cardinal, canonical virtues of Justice and Temperance and Courage.

Email: johnodito@gmail.com
Website:   https://sites.google.com/view/johnodito/home

Rodriguez, Audrey - received a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.A. in Honors English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She especially enjoys thinking about issues in applied ethics, feminist philosophy, the philosophy of love, social epistemology, social ontology, legal philosophy, and philosophy of film and literature. However, pretty much anything and everything interests her!

Saccone, Julian - received a B.A. in philosophy & linguistics and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Tuebingen. He is primarily interested in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, especially consciousness, pain, empathy, free will, and personal identity. He is also interested in manipulation, propaganda, political control, and totalitarianism. 

Sun, Changshuo - received his MPhil in Philosophy from Lingnan University and his BA in Philosophy from Wuhan University. His primary area of interest is epistemology. His MPhil thesis focused on radical skepticism, transcendental arguments, and hinge epistemology. Recently, he has developed an interest in the intersection of ethics and epistemology, particularly in the ethics of belief and the ethics of inquiry.

Torsoe, Katrina - is interested in topics at the intersection of motivation and epistemic practice, especially issues in philosophy of logic. She has secondary interests in a variety of issues including social epistemology, conceptual engineering, and normativity. She received her B.A. in philosophy from Hillsdale College in 2021.

Watts, Matthew - works in memory, mind, cognitive science, and (increasingly) technology, but he has broad philosophical interests ranging across the philosophical spectrum. Before graduate school, he received a B.S. in Philosophy from Portland State University. Prior to that he was a Certified Pipefitter/Welder and worked vineyard maintenance at the Hood's Wind Vineyard in Hood River, Oregon. 

Wittow, Gedalyahu - aka Ged received his  BA in Humanities from the Open University of Israel and an MA in Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Main interests are in core philosophy topics, such as free will and agency, knowledge and truth, phil mind and metaphysics broadly construed. 

Personal bio: I grew up in a Yiddish speaking ultra-orthodox community in Jerusalem and studied Talmud and a variety of other Jewish topics in some of the well renowned Yeshivot in Israel. My untraditional entry to academia and interest in philosophy has been an opportunity to see issues such as truth, religion and meaning from a bridging perspective that I hope will encourage more dialog, communication, and better philosophy for more of us.  

Yang, Ziren (Fred) - is a PhD candidate whose research investigates how scientists use modeling and simulation to explore poorly understood phenomena, such as the origin of life and the evolution of cosmic structure. He develops philosophical frameworks for exploratory modeling, the nature of target systems, and the evaluation of hypothetical models. His work provides insights into scientific representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and the norms guiding model evaluation and inference. He received his M.Res. in Philosophy from the University of Leeds, where his thesis examined mathematical representation and explanation, and his B.A. in Philosophy and Sociology from Queen’s University. His broader interests include epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, social studies of science, and social ontology.

Zhou, Liyan - received her B.A. in philosophy from Beijing Normal University, and M.A. in philosophy from the University of Calgary. Her MA thesis focused on the problem of extrapolation in randomized controlled trials. Her primary interests are in perception, attention, and psychiatry. She is also interested in animal minds and cognitive science.