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LOGIC AND
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE




Alumni
 
Kevin Zollman (Ph.D., 2007)
B.S., Philosophy, Kansas State University
(evolutionary game theory, philosophy of science)
Dissertation: "Network Epistemology"
  • Herbert Simon Postdoctoral Fellow in Scientific Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University (2008-present)

Waldemar Rohloff (Ph.D., 2007)
B.A., Philosophy, New York University
(Kant, Early Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Science)
Dissertation: "Kant and Frege on the A Priori Applicability of Mathematics"
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis (2007-2008)

Sean Ebels Duggan (Ph.D., 2007)
B.A.,  Philosophy, Wheaton College (IL)
M.Litt,  Philosophy, University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
M.A.,  Mathematics, Boston College
Dissertation:  "The Ought in Thought:  Logic and Rational Norms in Kant, the Tractatus, and Beyond"
  • Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University (2007-2009

Sam Hillier (Ph.D., 2007)
B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Alberta
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
Dissertation:  "Understanding Logical Empiricism:  Language Engineering in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language"

Curtis Franks (Ph.D., 2006)
B.A.  Philosophy, Mathematics, Rice University
Dissertation: "Mathematics Speaks for Itself"
  • Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame  (2006 - present)
Brian Woodcock Brian Woodcock (Ph.D., 2005)
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Michigan Technological University
M.A., Philosophy, Biola University
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
Dissertation:  "Problems and Prospects for Relativistic Quantum State Collapse Frameworks"
  • Rotman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario (2005-2007)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Carleton College (2007-2008)
Carol Skrenes (Ph.D., 2005)
B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate School
(history and philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, epistemology)
Dissertation: "The Prospects for an Empirical Theory of Concept Acquisition: Causal Cognition in Early Childhood"
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York (2005-2006)

Teri Merrick  (Ph.D., 2004)
B.A., Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
(history of philosophy, Frege, Kant, epistemology, and metaphysics)
Dissertation: "Frege's Distinction between Concepts and Objects:  A Descendant of Kant's Distinction between Concepts and Intuitions"
  • Associate Professor in Philosophy, Bethel College, Indiana (2004-2005)
  • Assistant Professor at Azuza Pacific University (2005 - present)

Doug Hill  (Ph.D., 2004)
B.S., Mathematics, Computer Science, Albertson College of Idaho
M.S., Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
(philosophy of science, logic and methodology, bioethics)
Dissertation: "Reputation in a World of Errors and Corruption" 

Chris Hom (Ph.D., 2003)
B.A. Philosophy, University of California, Davis
(philosophy of language and mind, philosophical logic) 
Dissertation: "The Logical Form of Structured Propositions"
  • Faculty Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz (2003-2005)
  • Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis (2005-2007)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University (2007-2008)
  • Assisant Professor, Texas Tech University (2008 - present)

Patricia Marino (Ph.D., 2002)
B.A. Mathematics, Wesleyan University
M.S. Mathematics, Tulane University
M.A. Mathematics, SUNY, Buffalo
(philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, ethics) 
Dissertation: "Language and the World: Correspondence Versus Deflationary Theories of Truth"

  • Junior Fellow in the Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University (2002-2004)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo (2004 - present)
Jason Alexander   (Ph.D., 2000)
B.S. Mathematics,  Lewis & Clark College
M.A. Philosophy, UC Irvine
(evolutionary game theory, social and political philosophy, philosophy of science)
Dissertation: "The Evolution of Distributive Justice"
  • Lecturer in Philosophy, UC San Diego (2000-2001)
  • Reader, London School of Economics (2001 - present) 

In addition, the following is a list of recent UCI Ph.D.s who worked with current LPS faculty prior to the formation of LPS.

Don Fallis (Ph.D., 1995)
(philosophy of mathematics, logic, epistemology)
Associate Professor of Information Resources and Library Science and
Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Arizona

William Harms (Ph.D., 1996)
(evolutionary epistemology)
Independent Scholar

Peter Lewis (Ph.D., 1996)
(philosophy of science, philosophy of physics)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Miami

Peter Vanderschraaf (Ph.D. 1995)
Game theoretic analysis of convention, Social Philosophy, Bio-medical Ethics
John Findlay Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Boston University (2007-2008)
 
 

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