Current Graduate Students

Augustina Agyin

Email: augustinafianko.agyin@slu.edu

Matilda Ajibola

Email: matilda.ajibola@slu.edu

Research interests: Bioethics, human enhancement, reproductive technologies and social justice.

Brendan Bacon

Email: brendan.bacon@slu.edu

Research interests: Ethics, history of philosophy, medieval philosophy, and philosophy of religion

Andrew Baldassarre

Email: andy.baldassarre@slu.edu

Research interests: Bioethics, authenticity and wellbeing, and social metaphysics

Joel Carini

Email: joel.carini@slu.edu

Research interests: Philosophy of language, ethics and moral psychology.

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.

Andre Chavez

Email: andre.chavez@slu.edu

Ben Conover

Email: benjamin.conover@slu.edu

Research interests: Metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Isabel Cortens

Email: isabel.cortens@slu.edu

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

Joel Cox

Email: joel.cox@slu.edu

Research interests: Moral philosophy, applied ethics, bioethics, abortion, social ontology, and liberalism.

Maximillien d'Audiffret

Email: maximillien.daudiffret@slu.edu

Research interests: Ancient philosophy and contemporary analytic metaphysics

Tim Eshing

Email: timothy.eshing@slu.edu

Caleb Estep

Email: caleb.estep@slu.edu

Research interests: Metaphysics, philosophy of language, and medieval philosophy. PhilPeople Profile

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.

Daniel Grasso

Email: daniel.grasso@slu.edu

Research interests: Philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy, metaphysics, friendship and Dostoevsky.

Ataollah Hashemi

Email: ataollah.hashemi@slu.edu

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

Rebecca Hicks

Email: rebecca.hicks@slu.edu

Research interests: Ancient Greek, medieval and neoplatonic philosophy.

Chris Holland

Email: christopher.holland@slu.edu

Research interests: Ethics (esp. theories of well-being) and philosophy of religion.

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Pawel Jamroz

Email: pawal.jamroz@slu.edu

Research interests: Ancient and Medieval philosophy, contemporary metaphysics

Hye Kelly-Koo

Email: carson.kelly@slu.edu

Research interests: feminist philosophy, social epistemology, applied ethics, clinical ethics, the healthcare provider and patient relationship, end-of-life care, and women’s health ethics.

David Kiblinger, S.J.

Email: david.kiblinger@slu.edu

Research interests: Catholic social teaching, social and political philosophy, and ethics

Qing Liu

Email: qing.liu@slu.edu

Research interests: metaethics, especially moral realism, cognitivism and expressivism

Benjamin Parviz

Email: benjamin.parviz@slu.edu

Research interests: Hope, despair, Gabriel Marcel, and bioethics.

James Pepe

Email: james.pepe@slu.edu

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

Ryan Powers

Email: ryan.a.powers@slu.edu

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

Nicholas Rao

Email: nicholas.roa@slu.edu

Research interests: Nicholas Rao is writing his dissertation on the importance of the town as a point of convergence between political community and cultural space.

Pedro Rapallo Zubillaga

Email: pedro.rapallozubillaga@slu.edu

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

Menashe Roberts

Email: menashechaim.roberts@slu.edu

Research interests: Epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of Judaism

Virginia Sotelo

Email: virginia.sotelo@slu.edu

Research interests: Philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy.