Alumni

 

Elliott Wagner (Ph.D., 2012)

B.S., Computer Science (with minor in Philosophy), Columbia University   (evolutionary game theory)

Dissertation: "The Dynamics of Information Transfer"

  • Postdoctoral Reseacher in the Institure for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam (2012 - 2013)

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Brett Bevers (Ph.D., 2011)
B.A.,  Mathematics and Philosophy,  Lawrence University (WI)
M.A.,  Philosophy, University of Wisconson, Milwaukee (philosophy of physics and philosophy of science)

Dissertation:"Probability in No-Collapse Quantum Mechanics"

bbevers@uci.edu
Office: SST 786

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Brian Rogers (Ph.D., 2011)
B.A., Philosophy (minor in Religion), University of Northern Iowa
(logic, philosophy of language, early analytic, Wittgenstein, history of philosophy)

Dissertation: Philosophical Method in Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"

brogers@uci.edu
Office: SST 793

  • Lecturer, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, Fall 2011

Jordan Stein (Ph.D., 2011)
B.A., Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago
(philosophy of language, philosophical logic, philosophy of science)
Dissertation: "How Many Notions of Necessity? An Essay on The Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics"

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New York City College of Technology (Spring 2011-present)
  • Adjunct Instructor, Marymount Manhattan College (Spring 2011)
  • Adjunct Instructor, Brooklyn College (Spring 2010)
Eric Updike (Ph.D., 2010)
B.A., Hampshire College
M.A., Indiana University
(philosophy of mathematics, theories of truth, philosophy of language, early analytic, symbolic logic)
Dissertation: "Paradise Regained: Fitch's Program of Basic Logic"
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Glendale Community College, AZ

John Rapalino (Ph.D., 2010 )
B.S., Philosophy, Mathematics, Kansas State University
(logic, philosophy of mathematics, set theory)
Dissertation: "Generic Absoluteness and the Continuum Hypothesis"

jrapalin@uci.edu
Office: SST 795

  • Lecturer, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, Fall 2010, Winter 2011

Christina Conroy (Ph.D., 2010)

B.A.,  Philosophy (with minor in Mathematics),  Hunter College, CUNY
(applied metaphysics, logic, philosophy of math and logic)
Dissertation: "Relative Facts and Restricted States"

  • Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Legal Studies, Morehead State University (2010-present)

Rory Smead (Ph.D., 2009)
M.A., Mathematical Behavioral Sciences , University of California, Irvine
B.A., Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Dissertation: "Social Interaction and the Evolution of Learning Rules"

  • Tutorial Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, The London School of Economics 2009-2010
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University (2010 - present)

John Manchak (Ph.D., 2009)B.A., Philosophy, Brigham Young University
B.S., Physics, Brigham Young University
(philosophy of physics)
Dissertation: "The Underdetermination of Global Spacetime Structure"

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington in Seattle (2009-present)
Kevin Zollman (Ph.D., 2007)
B.S., Philosophy, Kansas State University
(evolutionary game theory, philosopohy of science)
Dissertation: "Network Epistemology"
  • Herbert Simon Postdoctoral Fellow in Scientific Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University (2008-2009)
  • Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (2009-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"
  • Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis (2007-present)
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-present)
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"
  • Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta (2008-present)
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)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (2008-present)
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, Philosophy, Bethel College, Indiana (2004-2005)
  • Associate Professor, 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)
  • Assistant 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 - 2009)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo (2009-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, 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)
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Miami

Peter Vanderschraaf(Ph.D. 1995)
(game theoretic analysis of convention, social philosophy, bio-medical ethics)
Associate Professor
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
University of California, Merced