University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  
USC School of Philosophy USC School of Philosophy
 
USC Tiles
Graduate Students
Gregory Ackerman,
Email: gsackerm@usc.edu
Education: BA Reed College,05/2009
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Ancient
 
Hrafn Asgeirsson,
Email: asgeirss@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Philosophy, University of Iceland,06/2005
Interests: Philosophy of Law (in particular general jurisprudence, legal interpretation, the nature and justification of authority, and certain issues in crimin ... [more]
Employment: Bifrost University , Faculty of Social Sciences, Part-Time Lecturer
 
Ara Astourian,
Email: aastouri@usc.edu
Education: BA CSU - Pomona,06/2009
 
Matthew Babb,
Email: babbmw@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Philosophy, Northern Illinois Univ,12/2006 M.A. Philosophy, Northern Illinois Univ,05/2010
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science.
 
Rima Basu,
Email: rimabasu@usc.edu
Education: B.A. University of Toronto,2010 M.A. University of Toronto,2011
Interests: Metaethics, Language and Epistemology
 
Stephen Bero,
Email: bero@usc.edu
Education: BA Bard College, JD Columbia Law, MA Univ Texas Austin,
Interests: Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Ethics
 
Brian Blackwell,
Email: bblackwe@usc.edu
Education: BInfTech Queensland University of Technology, BA Philosophy, Univ. of Queensland, Exchange Program, University of California, Berkeley,
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
 
Brian Bowman,
Email: bcbowman@usc.edu
Education: M.A. UC - Davis, M.A. Northern Illinois Univ,08/1999
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and Metaphysics.
 
Tiffany Chang,
Email: changti@usc.edu
Education: B.A. UC - Los Angeles,09/2006
 
Joshua Crabill,
Email: crabill@usc.edu
Education: MA Virginia Tech, B.A. French, Asbury College,2005 B.A. Philosophy, Asbury College,2005 BA Asbury College,05/2005 M.A. Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,2008
Interests: Metaethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Action, Ethics, Moral Psychology
 
Justin Dallmann,
Email: jdallman@usc.edu
Education: BA Univ. of Manitoba, MA Univ. of Manitoba,
Interests: Metaphilosophy (esp. intuitions and reasons), Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Language (esp. philosophical logic and conditionals).
 
Kory Declark,
Email: kdeclark@usc.edu
Education: A.B. UC - Davis,
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy
 
Erik Encarnacion,
Email: eencarna@usc.edu
Education: JD Columbia University, BA Princeton Univ,
Interests: Legal and political philosophy and the overlap between them.
 
Marina Folescu,
Email: folescu@usc.edu
Education: B.A. National Univ of Fine Arts, Bucharest,2002 M.A. University of Bucharest,2003 M.A. Univ. of Western Ontario,2005
 
John Hall,
Email: johnkhal@usc.edu
Education: BA Princeton Univ, A.B. Philosophy, Princeton University,2010
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Metaethics
 
Michael Hatcher,
Email: mhatcher@usc.edu
Education: MA CSU - Los Angeles, BA Biola University,05/2008
Interests: Epistemology, and issues in mind, language, and metaphysics related to epistemology.
 
Nicholas Laskowski,
Email: nlaskows@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Philosophy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,2008
Interests: Ethics (esp. Normative), Epistemology
 
Benjamin Lennertz,
Email: lennertz@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Philosophy, Vassar College,05/2007
Interests: philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of math
 
Alida Liberman,
Email: aliberma@usc.edu
Education: BA College of New Jersey, Visiting Student Philosophy, University of Edinburgh,2007 B.A. Philosophy, The College of New Jersey,05/2008
Interests: Metaethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Action, Applied Ethics
 
Jennifer Liderth,
Email: liderth@usc.edu
Education: BA Simon Fraser Univ,
 
Matthew Paul Lutz,
Email: lutzm@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Economics, New York University,05/2007 BA Philosophy, New York University,05/2007
Interests: Metaethics, Epistemology, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Economics
 
Michael Milona,
Email: milona@usc.edu
Education: BA James Madison Univ,05/2008 GCRT French, Univ Virginia,08/2008 MA Philosophy, Virginia Tech,05/2010
 
Evan Moreno-Davis,
Email: morenoda@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Linguistics, Pomona College, B.A. Neuroscience, Pomona College, M.A. Philosophy, University of California, San Diego,
Interests: Moral Psychology, Action Theory, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Psychiatry
 
Kenneth Pearce,
Email: kpearce@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Classics, University of Pennsylvania,05/2007 B.A. Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania,05/2007 B.A.S. Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania,05/2007
Interests: I am interested in the intersection of metaphysics, theology, and philosophy of science in seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy. I am especia ... [more]
 
Michael Pressman,
Email: mpressma@usc.edu
Education: BA Philosophy, Stanford Univ,2006 MA Philosophy, Stanford Univ,2006 JD Stanford University - Law School,2010
 
Indrek Reiland,
Email: reiland@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Political Science, University of Tartu,06/2006 M.A. Philosophy, University of Tartu,06/2008
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Metaethics, Epistemology
 
Johannes Volker Schmitt,
Email: jschmitt@usc.edu
Education: M.A. L. - Maximilians U. of Munich,06/2005
Interests: I am primarily interested in philosophical logic, philosophy of language and semantics. I am currently also interested in decision theory, formal epis ... [more]
Biography: M. phil. (honors) University of Munich, 2005
 
Justin Snedegar,
Email: snedegar@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Philosophy, West Virginia University, B.A. Mathematics, West Virginia University,05/2008
Interests: Language, Metaethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics
 
Julia Staffel,
Email: staffel@usc.edu
Education: M.A. Humboldt Univ, Exchange Program Brown University,2005 Staatsexamen Philosophy, Humboldt Univ,07/2007 B.A. Humboldt Univ,07/2007
Interests: Julia studied philosophy and linguistics as an undergraduate and is mainly interested in philosophy of language and formal epistemology.
 
Cecilia Stepp,
Email: cstepp@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Mount Holyoke College,05/2001 M.A. Biola University,05/2006
 
Julian Stone,
Email: stonekro@usc.edu
Education: BA Univ Puget Sound,05/2009
Interests: Epistemology
 
Aaron Veek,
Email: veek@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley,12/2007
Interests: Philosophy of Action, Ethics
 
Eduardo Villanueva Chigne,
Email: evillanu@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, M.A. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee,
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics
 
Ryan Walsh,
Email: ryantwal@usc.edu
Education: BA New York University, B.A. Philosophy, New York University,05/2009
Interests: Metaethics; in particular, moral psychology, moral epistemology, and the metaphysics of morals.
 
Aness Webster,
Email: anessweb@usc.edu
Education: B.A. Philosophy, University of Auckland,2003 LL.B. University of Auckland,2003 M.A. Philosophy, University of Auckland,2007
Interests: Rationality, Normativity (especially the relationship between different sources of normativity: logic & rationality; rationality & ethics), Philosophy ... [more]
 
Xiao Wei,
Email: xiaowei@usc.edu
Interests: Political Philosophy
 
Luka Yovetich,
Email: yovetich@usc.edu
Education: M.A. Philosophy, CSU - Los Angeles, B.A. Communication, Univ Kansas,
Interests: Merely verbal disputes