Current Philosophy Graduate Students

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Ray W. Aldred
Ray W. Aldred

BA Honours in Philosophy (Calgary), MA in Philosophy (Calgary)


Research interests: Philosophy of Disability, Philosophy of Sex and Love, Philosophy of Mind, Neurophilosophy, Neuroethics, Ethics (especially biomedical ethics), Epistemology

Email: raymond.aldred [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Jeanne Allard
Jeanne Allard

BA Philosophy (Université de Montréal), MFA Creative Writing (UQÀM), MA Philosophy, Majeure German Studies (Université de Montréal)


Research interests: Hegel, Aristotle, German Idealism, Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Dissertation title: The Aristotelian Sources of Speculation in Hegel

Email: jeanne.allard [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Keven Bisson

BA Philosophy (UniversitéLaval), MA Philosophy (Université Laval)


Research Interests: Ethics, Effective altruism and longtermism, Intergenerational ethics.

Email:keven.bisson [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Moritz Bodner
Moritz Bodner


Research interests:Mathematical Logic, History of Philosophy & Logic (esp. (late) ancient, medieval & early 20th century), Literature

Email:moritz.bodner [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Alexander Carty

BA Honours Philosophy (University of Guelph), MA Philosophy (Wilfrid Laurier University)


Research Interests: my areas of specialty are philosophy of emotion, metaethics (esp. moral responsibility), and normative ethics. I also have interests in metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics.

Email: alexander.carty [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Samuel Carlsson Tjernström

BA Theoretical Philosophy (Lund University), MATheoretical Philosophy (Lund University)


Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

Email:samuel.carlssontjernstrom [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Sarah Clairmont
Sarah Clairmont

BA Arts & Contemporary Studies (Ryerson University), MA Philosophy (The New School)


Research Interests: Philosophy of public and population health, social epistemology and non-ideal theory, history and philosophy of science

Email: sarah.clairmont [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Molly Dea-Stephenson

BA Honours Philosophy(University of Toronto)


Research interests: Feminist philosophy, environmental philosophy, phenomenology

Email: molly.dea-stephenson [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Kosta Gligorijevic
Kosta Gligorijevic

BA Philosophy/German Studies (Guelph), MA Philosophy (Guelph)


Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, History of Political Philosophy, Ancient Metaphysics

Email: %20kosta.gligorijevic [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Alper Güngör

BA Business Administration (Boğaziçi University), MA Philosophy (Boğaziçi University)


Research Interests:Metaphysics, Aesthetics

Email:alper.gungor [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Aditya Guntoori

BSc Financial Mathematics (McMaster University), BA Philosophy (McMaster University), MA Philosophy (Concordia University)


Research Interests:Indian Philosophy (esp.Nyāya andMadhyamaka)

Email: aditya.guntoori [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Nikolas Hamm
Nikolas Hamm

BA Honours Philosophy (St Mary's University), MA Philosophy (SFU)


Research interests: Early Modern (esp. Kant, Spinoza), Moral Character, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy

Email: nikolas.hamm [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck

BA Honours Philosophy with Minor Language and Literature (Carleton University), MA Philosophy (University of Ottawa)


Research Interests: Deliberative democracy, Religion and public life, Jürgen Habermas

Email:philippe-antoin.hoyeck [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Dallas Jokic
Dallas Jokic

BA Honours Philosophy and History (Guelph), MA Philosophy (Queen's)


Research interests: Political Philosophy, Spinoza, Philosophy of Fascism and Anti-Fascism, Continental Philosophy

Email: dallas.jokic [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Riley Hannah Lewicki
Riley Hannah Lewicki

Honours BSosSc Political Science (University of Ottawa), MA Political Science (University of Ottawa)


Research interests: Political Theory, Phenomenology, Trans Studies, The Frankfurt School, Hannah Arendt, Republican Theory, Automation, Judaism, Critical Theory, Anime and Manga Studies, and Disability Studies

Email: riley.lewicki [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Thomas Minguy
Thomas Minguy

BA Honours Philosophy (Bishop's), MA Philosophy (Memorial)


Research interests: Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, Political Philosophy, Contemporary French Thought, Modern Philosophy

Email: thomas.minguy [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Alexis Morin-Martel

Bachelor of Laws, BA Philosophy, MA Philosophy (UQÀM)


Research interests: AI Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Metaethics

Email: alexis.morin-martel [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Azadeh Radbooei
Azadeh Radbooei

BA Philosophy (University of British Columbia), MA Philosophy (Paris X Nanterre), MA Philosophy (Université de Montréal)


Research interests: Pragmatic theories of perception, Kant, Fichte, Bergson, Deleuze

Email: azadeh.radbooei [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Khaleel Rajwani
Khaleel Rajwani

BA Philosophy (Yale)


Research interests: Bioethics, Substance Use and Harm Reduction Ethics, Psychedelic Therapies, Critical Theory, Post-Colonial Philosophy

Email: khaleel.rajwani [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Jean-Francois Rioux
Jean-Francois Rioux

BA Philosophy (Université de Montréal), MA Philosophy (Université Laval)


Research Interests: Political Theory (Hegel, Ricœur, Havel, Arendt, Derrida), Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, Schütz, Fanon), Hermeneutics (Dilthey, Heidegger)

Email: jean-francois.rioux2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Sebastian
Rodriguez Duque

BA Philosophy and Political Science, MA Philosophy (Carleton University)


Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Moral Psychology

Email: sebastian.rodriguezduque [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Alexander Stooshinoff

BA Philosophy, Electroacoustic Studies (Concordia University), MAPhilosophy (KU Leuven), MSt Ancient Philosophy (University of Oxford)


Research interests:Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Nature (esp. Aristotle, Spinoza, Bergson), History & Historiography of Philosophy

Email:alexander.stooshinoff [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Valérie Lynn Therrien

BA Philosophy (Université de Montréal), MPhil Philosophy of Mathematics (Western University)


Research interests: Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics

Email: valerie.l.therrien [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Matthew Valiquette

BA Honours in Philosophy with Great Distinction (Concordia University), MA Philosophy of Science (University of Toronto)


Research interests: Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Phenomenological Psychopathology, Ethics of Technology, Bioethics

Email:matthew.valiquette [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Em Walsh
Em Walsh

BA Honours Philosophy (University of Birmingham), MA Philosophy (University of Birmingham)


Research interests: Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of cognitive science, Philosophy of memory, Feminist philosophy, & Clinical bioethics

Email: emily.walsh [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Boyu Xie
Boyu Xie

BSc Environmental Engineering (Hunan University); MA Chinese Philosophy & Literature (incomplete) (Hunan University Yue Lu Academy); MA Philosophy (University of Saskatchewan)


Research interests: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Bodily Awareness, and Comparative Philosophy

Email: boyu.xie [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Grégoire René

BA Philosophy (Université de Montréal), MA Philosophy Bioethics ()


Research interests: Feminist philosophy, social epistemology, philosophy of gender, and philosophy of psychiatry

Email: gregoire.rene [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Ron Buenaventura

BA Honours Philosophy (University of Toronto), MA Philosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University)


Research interests: Epicurus, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Death

Email: ron.buenaventura [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Mingqiu Xue

Bachelor of Laws (China University of Political Science and Law), MA Philosophy (Northern Illinois University)


Research Interests: Ethics, Political Philosophy, the Intersection of Ethics and Epistemology

Email: mingqiu.xue [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Yulia Hoffmann

MA Philosophy (University of Vienna)


Research Interests: 20th century continental philosophy: Bergson, Heidegger, Deleuze; history of philosophy; philosophy of music; existentialism

Email: yulia.hoffmann [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Flavie Chevalier

BA Philosophy (Laval University), MA Philosophy (Laval University)


Email: flavie.chevalier [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Hikmat Jamal

BA Philosophy (University of Toronto), MA Philosophy (University of Toronto)


Research interests: Ancient philosophy, Islamic philosophy, metaphysics.

Email: hikmat.jamal [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Maryna Nekrasova

BHum in Philosophy and Humanities (Carleton)


Research interests: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics of Technology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science

Email: maryna.nekrasova [at] mail.mcgill.ca

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