Kevin Kadowaki

Kevin Kadowaki

Dissertation title:Challenges in the Epistemology of Large-Scale Simulation
Postdoctoral Fellow, Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry project, Washington University in St. Louis, 2022-present

 

Chris Mitch

Chris Mitch

Adjunct instructor at Nebraska Wesleyan University. History, Math, and Philosophy and Religion departments Fall 2021-present

Kino Zhao

Kino Zhao

Lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Philosophy Fall 2021

Elliott Chen

Elliott Chen

Postdoctoral fellow at Western University, project “Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy.” 2021-2022

Mike Schneider

Mike Schneider

Postdoc at the University of Illinois at Chicago on the Cosmology Beyond Spacetime project 2021-2022

Postdoc at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. 2020-2021

Will Stafford

Will Stafford

Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences on the project “Meaningful Formalism; a Philosophy for Type Theory” Winter 2021-2022

Fabio Lampert

Fabio Lampert

Dissertation Title:The Varieties of Multidimensional Necessity

Postdoctoral Fellows, Department of Philosophy, University of Greifswald, Fall 2021

Schatz

Jeffrey Schatz
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2019
Dissertation Title: "Axiom Selection by Maximization: v=Ultimate L vs Forcing Axioms""
Postdoctoral Fellow on the project "Mathematics with a Human Face", University of Bergen, Fall 2021

Rosenstock

Sarita Rosenstock
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2019
Dissertation Title: "A Categorical Consideration of Physical Formalisms"
Postdoc Fellow, School of Philosophy, Australian National University, Fall 2019

Gilton

Marian J.R. Gilton
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2019
Dissertation Title: "Charge in Classical Gauge Theories"
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2019

Galebacj

John Ethan Galebach
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2018
Dissertation Title: "Representing Geometry: Perception, Concepts, and Knowledge"
Actuarial Analyst, California Casualty

Sarah Lawsky

Sarah Lawsky
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2017
Dissertation Title: "Nonmonotonic Logic and Rule-Based Legal Reasoning"
Professor of Law, Northwestern, Pritzker School of Law, Fall 2016-present
Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine, Fall 2010-2016

Hannah_Rubin

Hannah Rubin
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2017
Dissertation Title: "The Explanatory Value of Inclusive Fitness for Evolutionary Theory"
Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, 2017- present
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Notre Dame University, Fall 2018

Ben Feintzeig

Ben Feintzeig
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2016
Dissertation Title: "On Algebraic Methods in Quantum Theories"
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle, 2016-Present

Bennett Holman

Bennett Holman
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2015
Dissertation Title: "The Fundamental Antagonism: Science and Commerce in Medical Epistemology"
Associate Professor, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, 2021-Present

Assistant Professor, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, 2015-2021

Bennett McNulty

Bennett McNulty
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2014
Dissertation Title: "Kant's Philosophy of Chemistry"
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2016-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Central Arkansas, 2015-2016
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, 2014-2015

 

Greg McWhirter Gregory McWhirter

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2014

Dissertation Title: "Deception and Formal Models of Communication"

Software engineer on the search team at ZipRecruiter, 2016-Present

Mathematics and Computer Science Teacher, The Windward School, Los Angeles, 2014-2016

 

 

Benjamin Rin Benjamin Rin

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2014

Dissertation Title: "Mathematical Limits and Philosophical Significance of Transfinite Computation"

Assistant Professor, Department for Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2016-Present

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 2015-2016

Lecturer, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, Fall 2014

 

Michael Ernst Michael Ernst

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2014

Dissertation Title: "The Category-Theoretical Imperative"

Software Engineer, Concept Tapestry, a Silicon Valley Machine Learning/Evolutionary Computing Company, 2015-Present

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, 2014-2015 

 

Sam Fletcher Samuel C. Fletcher

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2014

Dissertation Title: "Similarity and Spacetime: Studies in Intertheoretic Reduction and Physical Significance"

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2015-Present

Marie Curie Fellow, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, 2014-2016

 

Justin Bruner
Justin Bruner

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2014

Dissertation Title: "Diversity and Cooperation"

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Economy and Moral Science, University of Arizona, 2019-present

Lecturer, School of Politics, Australian National University, 2016-2019

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Australian National University, 2014-2016

 

Cailin O'Connor Cailin O'Connor

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2013

Dissertation Title: " Categories, Generalization, and Vagueness"

Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2021-Present

Associate Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2018-2021

Associate Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2013-2018

 

Jim Weatherall Jim Weatherall

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2012 

Dissertation Title: Mass and Motion: Topics at the Interface of General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation

Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2016-Present

Associate Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2014-2016

Assistant Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2012-2014

 

Elliot Wagner Elliott Wagner

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2012

Dissertation: "The Dynamics of Information Transfer"

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Kansas State University, Fall 2013-Present

Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 2012-13

 

Brett Bevers Brett Bevers

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2011

Dissertation:"Probability in No-Collapse Quantum Mechanics"

Software Engineer, Data Engineering Lead, Dollar Shave Club, 2015-Present

Developer, NationBuilder Corp., Los Angeles, 2012-2015

Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, 2011-12

 

Brian Rogers Brian Rogers

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2011

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

Attorney, Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, 2015-Present

J.D., Stanford Law School, 2012-2015  

 

Jordan Stein Jordan Stein

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2011

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, 2011-Present

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Marymount Manhattan, Spring 201

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, 2010-Present

 

Eric Updike Eric Updike

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2010

Dissertation: "Paradise Regained: Fitch's Program of Basic Logic"

Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Glendale Community College, AZ, 2010-Present

 

 

John Rapalino John Rapalino

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2010

Dissertation: "Generic Absoluteness and the Continuum Hypothesis"

Adjunct Faculty,  Department of Philosophy, Chapman University, 2012- present

 

 

Christina Conroy Christina Conroy

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine,  2010

Dissertation: "Relative Facts and Restricted States"

Associate Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Legal Studies, Morehead State University, 2016-Present

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Legal Studies, Morehead State University, 2010-Present

 

Rory Smead Rory Smead

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California. Irvine, 2009

Dissertation: "Social Interaction and the Evolution of Learning Rules"

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University, 2016-Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University, 2010-16

Tutorial Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, The London School of Economics, 2009-10

 

JB Manchak JB Manchak

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2009

Dissertation: "The Underdetermination of Global Spacetime Structure"

Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2017-Present

Associate Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2015-17

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington in Seattle, 2013-2015

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington in Seattle, 2009-2013

 

Kevin Zollman Kevin Zollman

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2007

Dissertation: "Network Epistemology"

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013-Present

Assistant Professor,  Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009-13

Herbert Simon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008-09 

 

Waldemar Rohloff Waldemar Rohloff

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2007

Dissertation: "Kant and Frege on the A Priori Applicability of Mathematics"

h.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2007

Dissertation: "Kant and Frege on the A Priori Applicability of Mathematics"

Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Present

Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2007

 

 

Sean Ebels Duggan Sean Ebels-Duggan

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2007

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 Sam Hillier

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2007

Dissertation: "Understanding Logical Empiricism:  Language Engineering in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language"

Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, 2007-Present

 

 

Curtis Franks Curtis Franks

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2006

Dissertation: "Mathematics Speaks for Itself"

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2013-Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2006-2013

 

Brian Woodcock Brian Woodcock

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2005

Dissertation:  "Problems and Prospects for Relativistic Quantum State Collapse Frameworks"

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2006-Present

Rotman Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 2005-06

Carol Skrenes Carol Skrenes

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2005

Dissertation: "The Prospects for an Empirical Theory of Concept Acquisition: Causal Cognition in Early Childhood"

Lecturer, School of Social Science, University of California, Irvine 

 

 

Teri Merrick Teri Merrick

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2004

Dissertation: "Frege's Distinction between Concepts and Objects:  A Descendant of Kant's Distinction between Concepts and Intuitions"

Professor, Department of Theology and Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University, 2005-Present

Associate Faculty of Philosophy, Bethel College, 2004-05

 

Doug Hill Doug Hill

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2004

Dissertation: "Reputation in a World of Errors and Corruption" 

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton, 2005 - present 

 

 

Chris Hom
Chris Hom

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2003

Dissertation: "The Logical Form of Structured Propositions"

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University, 2014-Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University, 2008-14

Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005-07

Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003-05 

Patricia Marino Patricia Marino

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2002

Dissertation: "Language and the World: Correspondence Versus Deflationary Theories of Truth"

Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, 2016-Present

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, 2009-16

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, 2004-09

Fellow, Stanford Humanities Fellows Program, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, 2002-04 

 

Jason Alexander Jason Alexander

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 2000

Dissertation: "The Evolution of Distributive Justice"

Professor in Philosophy, London School of Economics


UCI Ph.D.s who worked with current LPS faculty prior to the formation of LPS

Don Fallis
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1995
Professor of Information Resources & Library Science, 2015-Present
Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2005-Present
University of Arizona

William Harms
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1996
Philosophy Instructor and Independent Scholar, 2000-Present
Seattle Central Community College

Peter Lewis
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1996
Professor of Philosophy, 2017-Present
Dartmouth College

Peter Vanderschraaf
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, 1995
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
University of California, Merced

 

 

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