Of the 207 applicants for the Fall 2008 graduate program, the Department proudly welcomes 7 new PhD students and 8 new M.A. students.

During 2007-2008 graduate students participated in giving over 20 papers at academic conferences and nearly 15 works were edited, reviewed or published by graduate students.

In the academic year 2007-2008 the Department awarded 6 PhDs and 4 MA degrees.

Here is what some of our current students are working on:

David Aleksic
Areas of interest: Legal Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Ethics

Maren Behrensen
Areas of interest: Contemporary Issues in Ethics, Kant, Philosophy of Law, Metaphysics of personhood and free will

Shai Biderman
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Film and Literature, Aesthetics, Nietzsche, Existentialism, Phenomenology and Cultural Criticism

Martin Black

Ian Blaustein
Areas of interest: History of Philosophy, Ethics, Ancient and Early Modern Mathematics

Stefan Cojocaru
Areas of interest: Kant, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Phenomenology, Moral and Political Philosophy, Moral Psychology

Dimitri Constant
Area of interest: Logic and Methodology of Science
Prospectus title: “The Standard Interpretation of Higher-Order Variables in Modern Logic and the Concept of Function in Mathematics”

Candice Delmas
Areas of Interest: Social and Political Philosophy (especially the concepts of political responsibility, political action, and revolution), Philosophy of Law, Ethics

Andreas Elpidorou
Website: http://people.bu.edu/aselpido
Areas of interest: Phenomenology, Early Modern, Philosophy of Perception, and History of Philosophy

Sarah Farkas
Areas of interest: German Idealism (Hegel), Kant, History of Ethics, Contemporary Ethics

Iskra Fileva
Areas of interest: Metaethics, Practical Reasoning, Moral Psychology, Self-knowledge

Hege C. Finholt
Areas of interest: Contemporary Political Philosophy, Sovereignty, Nationalism, Democracy, Philosophy of Law, History of Ethics, Practical Philosophy

Lauren Freeman
Areas of interest: Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Phenomenology, Ancient Philosophy
Dissertation Title : "Ethical Dimensions in Martin Heidegger's Early Thinking"

Luciana Garbayo, M.D.
Areas of interest: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Perception, Bioethics

Andy German
Areas of interest: Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Ancient and Modern Metaphysics and Political Philosophy

David Jennings
Areas of interest: Ethics, Ancient Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle), History of Philosophy

Brian Julian
Areas of interest: History of Philosophy, Theories of Truth, the relation between Philosophy and Pre-philosophical ideas, Plato, Aristotle, Reid, Wittgenstein

Gal Kober
Website: http://people.bu.edu/gal
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Biology, Environmental Ethics

Mary Kuhn

Karolina Lewestam
Areas of interest: Ethics, Theory of action

Monica Link
Areas of interest: Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Brian Marrin
Areas of interest: Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Metaphysics

Jason McCullough

John McHugh
Areas of interest: Modern Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Hume, Moral Philosophy

Kirsten McKillop
Areas of interest: Ancient philosophy, Political Philosophy

Irina Meketa
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Science (specifically, the relationship between scientific
and contextual values in scientific practice and the social sphere), Moral
and Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics

Matthew Meyer
Areas of interest: 19th century German Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Nietzsche and Plato

Lynn Niizawa
Areas of interest: Justification of belief; Ethics, Imagination

Luiz Perez

Mark Pickering
Areas of interest: Epistemology (in particular radical skepticism, metaepistemology, and a priori knowledge/justification), Kant, Pyrrhonism, and early modern theories of toleration

Yonatan Porat
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Law, and History of Analytic Philosophy

Laurie Pohl
Areas of interest: Philosophy of science, particularly objectivity; the nature of scientific knowledge, and its intersection with Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

Orla Richardson
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Pragmatism

Elizabeth Ann Robinson
Areas of Interest: Kant, Cassirer, Medieval philosophy, natural religion, negative theology, metaphysics, phenomenology, philosophy of film, space, philosophy of architecture

Benjamin Roth
Areas of interest: The relationship between Philosophy and Literature, Hermeneutics,
Hegel, Heidegger, non-analytic approaches to Ethics and Politics

Elisabeta Sarca
Website: http://people.bu.edu/lizuca/
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Hume, Leibniz

Benjamin Sherman

Åsa Söderman
Areas of interest: Political and Moral Philosophy, History of 18th- and 19th-Century Philosophy
Dissertation title: John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of History

James Sonner
Areas of interest: 18th and 19th Century German Philosophy

Carolyn Suchy-Dicey
Website: http://www.neuphi.com/index.php/main/article/csd_home/
Areas of interest: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Perception, and Applied Ethics

Chris W. Surprenant
Website: http://people.bu.edu/cwsurpre
Areas of interest: Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Kant
Prospectus Title: "Moral Progress and the Kantian State"

Abdur-Rahman Syed
Areas of interest: Platonic, Continental and Islamic strands of the philosophy-poetry debate

John Tietze
Areas of Interest: Logic, Phenomenology, and the Philosophy of Mathematics and Science

Alessandro Torza
Areas of interest: Formal ontology, philosophical logic (identity and individuation, possible-world semantics, counterpart theory, natural kinds and essentialism, quasi-set theory), Logic, philosophy of science (independence-friendly logic and game-theoretic semantics; identity in physics)
Prospectus title: "Semantic Games, Rigidity and Counterparts"

Josh Wood
Areas of interest: Early Modern Philosophy of Action (especially Berkeley), Kant and German Idealism (especially Hegel), and the nature and import of Skepticism

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