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Current Graduate Students

Learn more about the graduate students in the Department of Philosophy at Saint 浪花直播 University. 

Doctoral Students

Matilda Ajibola

Matilda Ajibola

Email: matilda.ajibola@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Bioethics, human enhancement, reproductive technologies, social justice.


Joel Carini

Joel Carini

Email: joel.carini@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Philosophy of language, ethics, moral psychology.


Michael Cevering

Michael Cevering

Email: michael.cevering@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Comparative philosophy, including Asian and continental; ethics; modern philosophy; philosophy of religion, especially Mormon philosophy; skepticism.


Ben Conover

Ben Conover

浪花直播 Interests: Metaphysics and philosophy of science.


Isabel Cortens

Isabel Cortens

Email: isabel.cortens@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ancient philosophy.


Joel Cox

Joel Cox

Email: joel.cox@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Moral philosophy, applied ethics, bioethics, abortion, social ontology, and liberalism.


Caleb Estep

Caleb Estep

Email: caleb.estep@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Metaphysics, philosophy of language, and medieval philosophy.  


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Derek Estes

Email: derek.estes@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Bioethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology.


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Charles Freiberg

Email: charles.freiberg@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Philosophy of technology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.


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Cynthia Gonzalez


Email: Cynthia.l.gonzalez@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Applied ethics (esp. bioethics and public philosophy), politics, art and aesthetics, and history of philosophy.


Dan Grasso

Daniel Grasso

Email: daniel.grasso@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy, metaphysics, friendship, and Dostoevsky.


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Ataollah Hashemi

Email: ataollah.hashemi@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of religion.


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Rebecca Hicks

Email: rebecca.hicks@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Ancient Greek, medieval and neoplatonic philosophy.


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Chris Holland

Email: christopher.holland@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, metaethics, and philosophical logic.


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Jacob Huls

Email: jacob.huls@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.


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Thes Kascsak

Email: thes.kascsak@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, happiness and well-being, philosophy of religion.

 

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En Suan Lian (Fr. Steve)

Email: ensuan.lian@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Medieval, philosophy of mind, philosophical theology.


Xuya Ma

Xuya Ma

Email: xuya.ma@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion.


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Cecilia Nicklaus

Email: cecilia.nicklaus@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Social Epistemology and Metaphysics.


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Benjamin Parviz

Email: benjamin.parviz@slu.edu 

浪花直播 Interests: Hope, despair, Gabriel Marcel, and bioethics.


James Pepe

James Pepe

Email: James.pepe@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and thomistic angelology.


Ryan Powers

Ryan Powers

Email: ryan.a.powers@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Value theory, philosophy of science, history of philosophy.  


Pedro Rapallo Zubillaga

Pedro Rapallo Zubillaga

Email: pedro.rapallozubillaga@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Metaphysics, especially social ontology and the philosophy of fiction. 


Montaque Reynolds

Montaque Reynolds

Email: montaque.reynolds@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Epistemology (especially virtue), philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind.


Virginia Sotelo

Virginia Sotelo

Email: virginia.sotelo@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy.


Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks

Email: nicholas.sparks@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Philosophical anthropology, philosophy of technology, ethics, continental philosophy.


Joseph Taccolini

Josh Taccolini

Email: joshua.taccolini@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Emotions, values, normativity theory.


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Alexander Zhang

Email: alexander.h.zhang@slu.edu


Yiling Zhou

Yiling Zhou

Email: yiling.zhou@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Ethics and moral psychology.


Jacob Zimbelman

Jacob Zimbelman

Email: jacob.zimbelman@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Intuition, perception, theory choice, Christian neoplatonism, practical reasoning.


 

Master's Students

Culligan

Augustine Culligan, OP

Email: joseph.culligan@slu.edu

浪花直播 Interests: Metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.


Hilliker

Joseph Hilliker, OP

Email: cullen.hilliker@slu.edu

浪花直播 interests:  Bioethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of physics.


Christopher Ross

Christopher Ross, S.J.

浪花直播 interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and ethics.


Jonathan Spates

Jonathan Spates

Email: jonathan.spates@slu.edu

浪花直播 interests: Metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of language.