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Current Graduate Students

Learn more about the current graduate students in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. 

Doctoral Students

Joel Carini

Joel Carini

Email: joel.carini@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of language, ethics, moral psychology.


Michael Cevering

Michael Cevering

Email: michael.cevering@slu.edu

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


Isabel Cortens

Isabel Cortens

Email: isabel.cortens@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ancient philosophy.


Joel Cox

Joel Cox

Email: joel.cox@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ethics of autonomy, metaethics, abortion, clinical ethics, epistemology, divine command theory, platonic defenses of democracy in the republic.


Caleb Estep

Caleb Estep

Email: caleb.estep@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, philosophy of language, and medieval philosophy. PhilPeople Profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/caleb-estep


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Derek Estes

Email: derek.estes@slu.edu

Research Interests: Bioethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology. Personal Website.


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Charles Freiberg

Email: charles.freiberg@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of technology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion.


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Cynthia Gonzalez


Email: Cynthia.l.gonzalez@slu.edu

Research 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

Research Interests: Medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, moral psychology.


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Ataollah Hashemi

Email: ataollah.hashemi@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of religion.


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Rebecca Hicks

Email: rebecca.hicks@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ancient Greek, medieval and neoplatonic philosophy.


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Chris Holland

Email: christopher.holland@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy of religion, metaphysics, metaethics, and philosophical logic.


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Jacob Huls

Email: jacob.huls@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.


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Thes Kascsak

Email: thes.kascsak@slu.edu

Research 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

Research Interests: Medieval, philosophy of mind, philosophical theology.


Xuya Ma

Xuya Ma

Email: xuya.ma@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion.


Fr. Adrian Patrick McCaffery

Fr. Adrian Patrick McCaffery, OP.

Email: patrick.mccaffery@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion.


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Cecilia Nicklaus

Email: cecilia.nicklaus@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, medieval philosophy, and philosophy of religion.


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Benjamin Parviz

Email: benjamin.parviz@slu.edu 

Research Interests: hope, human flourishing, and bioethics.


James Pepe

James Pepe

Email: James.pepe@slu.edu

Research Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and thomistic angelology.


Ryan Powers

Ryan Powers

Email: ryan.a.powers@slu.edu

Research Interests: Value theory, philosophy of science, history of philosophy.  


Pedro Rapallo Zubillaga

Pedro Rapallo Zubillaga

Email: pedro.rapallozubillaga@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, especially social ontology and the philosophy of fiction. 


Montaque Reynolds

Montaque Reynolds

Email: montaque.reynolds@slu.edu

Research Interests: Epistemology (especially virtue), philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind.


Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks

Email: nicholas.sparks@slu.edu

Research Interests: Philosophical anthropology, philosophy of technology, ethics, continental philosophy.


Joseph Taccolini

Josh Taccolini

Email: joshua.taccolini@slu.edu

Research 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

Research Interests: Ethics and moral psychology.


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Jacob Zimbelman

Email: jacob.zimbelman@slu.edu

Research Interests: Intuition, perception, theory choice, Christian neoplatonism, practical reasoning.


 

Master's Students

Culligan

Br. Augustine Culligan, OP

Email: joseph.culligan@slu.edu

Research Interests: Metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.


Hilliker

Br. Joseph Hilliker, OP

Email: cullen.hilliker@slu.edu

Research interests:  Bioethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of physics.


Jonathan Spates

Jonathan Spates

Email: jonathan.spates@slu.edu

Research interests: Metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of language.