Graduate Program

Graduate Student Profiles

Alex Baia

  • BA, Philosophy, BS, Comp Science, University of Colorado-Boulder
  • alex.baia@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language

Brian Battiste


John Bengson


Nora Berenstain


David Bernard


Reid Blackman


Tomas Bogardus


Georgui Bronnikov


Joseph Bullock

  • BS, EE, Cal Polytech., MA, Theology, Emory, MA, Georgia State
  • Research interests: Ancient

Danielle Carducci


Josh Carlisle


Renee Checkik

  • BA, NYU
  • Research interests: Logic, History, Language, Ancient

Fei-Ting Chen

  • B.A., Law, M.A., National Taiwan University
  • feiting_chen@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Kant, 19th Century German Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Hsiang-Yun Chen


Janice Chik

  • AB, Princeton
  • jchik@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, History of Philosophy

Young Kee Cho


Blinn Combs

  • B.A. Carleton College
  • blinnc@aol.com
  • Research interests: Ancient philosophy - particularly Plato's late ontology; Continental philosophy - particularly 19th and 20th century German philosophy

Matthew Dasti


Talia D'Abramo


Stephen Davey


Jeremy Evans


Anders Floor


David Frank


Markus Glodek


Enrico Grube


Alex Grzankowski


Ivan Heyman

  • BA, U of Washington
  • Research interests: Ancient

Garrett Holmes


Ivan Hu


Julie Hunter


Woo-Young Hwang

  • BA, Educational Technology, Ewha University; MA, Seoul National University
  • wooyoungh@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Philosophy of Mind (Perception), Aesthetics

David Ivy

  • BA, Texas State; MA, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
  • jdivy@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Philosophy of Mind, Wittgenstein, American Philosophy

Steven James


Tristan Johnson


Colleen Keating


Guha Krishnamurthi

  • BA, MS, Math, U of Michigan
  • gvngki@gmail.com
  • Research interests: Logic, Indian Philosophy

Eric Larson


Leah Lasell

  • BA, University of Chicago, MA St. John's
  • leahulrich@yahoo.com
  • Research interests: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, and Logic

Steven Lee


Jeremy Lupo

  • BA, Colgate
  • Research interests: PHL of Mind

Nick Mantegani


Aidan McGlynn


Alex Moffett


Jennifer Neilson


Ian Nyberg


Katherine Oakley


Matthew O'Brien

  • BA, Princeton University; Post-Bacc. in Classics, University of Pennsylvania; MA, UT
  • matthew.obrien@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Ancient philosophy, ethics, jurisprudence, political theory, and aesthetics
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David Palmer

  • BS, Psychology, University of York; MA, University of London
  • davidpalmer@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Philosophy of Mind, Early Greek and Chinese philosophy, Camus

Timothy Pickavance

  • BS, Economics, University of North Texas; MA, Philosophy, Biola University
  • timpick@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
    • Webpage Offsite Link


Bryan Pickel

  • BS, Mathematics, BA Philosophy UT Austin
  • bpickel@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy, Early Modern and Logic

Jeffrey Pote

  • BA, PHL/Eco, U of North Carolina
  • jrpote@gmail.com
  • Research interests: Ethics, Political PHL, Law

Ignacio Prado


Christopher Raymond


Nevitt Reesor

  • BS, EE, New Mexico State, MS, EE, Colorado State, MA, St. John's
  • nreesor@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Nietzsche

Katherine Ritchie


Elizabeth Rodgers


Conor Roddy

  • BA, Trinity College, Dublin; MA, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • conor_roddy@yahoo.com
  • Research interests: Nietzsche, Continental Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, Environmental Ethics

Michael Sevel


James Sherman

  • AB, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago
  • j-sherman@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Action, Political Philosophy, Metaethics

Soyoung Shim

  • BS, Clothing and Textiles, Seoul National University; BS, Computer Engineering, Seoul National University; MA: Cognitive Science, Seoul National University
  • syshim@mail.utexas.edu
  • Research interests: Philosophy of Mind

Graham Smith


Kevin Smith

  • BA, NYU
  • Research interests: PHL of Mind

Paul Smith

  • BA, Middle Eastern Languages and Affairs, Brigham Young University; MS, Middle East Concentration, 1993, Defense Intelligence College
  • phsmith@rviewer.com
  • Research interests: Philosophy of mind (especially mental causation); consciousness; philosophy of science; philosophy of parapsychology

Jessalyn Starbuck

  • BA, USC
  • Research interests: Metaphysics, PHL of Science, Mind and Language

Eleanor Vernon

  • BA, Univ of Mississippi; JD, Univ of Texas
  • ekvernon@hotmail.com
  • Research interests: Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Political PHL

Eric Vogelstein

  • B.A. Brandeis University
  • evogelstein@yahoo.com
  • Research interests: Philosophy of Religion, Continental, varied

Malte Willer


Briggs Wright


Ho Young Yang