Tehami Ammad

MA program in Philosophy

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Email address: tehami@usf.edu

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Hyder Arastu

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Vico

Email address: harastu@usf.edu

Education: BA in Political Science & Philosophy, West Virginia University

Important links: Personal Website

Christopher Barber

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Phenomenology & Existentialism, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics

Email address: cmbarber1@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, San Jose State University

BA in Philosophy, San Jose State University

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Tomás Bardi

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: 19th/20th Century Continental Philosophy; Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze, Foucault

Email address: bardi1@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy, Florida State University

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Heather Brant

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: 19th/20th C. Continental, Phenomenology, Existentialism & Ageing, Ethics, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

Email address: brant2@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy and Political Science, Hiram College

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Matija "Matt" Budisin

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Kant and German Idealism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Social Ontology and Political Epistemology, Foucault's Social and Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy of Language, and 19th c. Analytic.

Email address: mbudisin@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of Oklahoma

Post-Bac in Classics, UPenn

BA in Classics, Williams College

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Justin Burdick

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: jburdick1@usf.edu

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Samuel Busby

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Ancient Greek Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; History of Christianity 

Email address: sbusby1@usf.edu

Education: BA in History, University of South Florida

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Yvonne Candelario

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Hume/Empiricism, Constructivism of Religion, WGS/Feminism & Religion, Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine

Email address: ycandelario@usf.edu

Education: MA in Religious Studies, Georgia State University

BA in Philosophy, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Pierson Christensen

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: piersonc@usf.edu

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Robert Claflin

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: 19th & 20th Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Levinas, Nietzsche

Email address: claflin@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Duquesne University

BS in Philosophy, East Tennessee State University

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Marrissa Cook

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Epistemic Injustice, Datafication, Philosophy of Language

Email address: mlcook2@usf.edu

Education: MA in Medieval History, University of South Florida

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Vitor Castilho Costa

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: castilhocosta@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Rio de Janeiro

BA in Philosophy, Atheneum Regina Apostolorum

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Romario De La Hoz

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Medieval Philosophy; Existentialism; 19th and 20th Century Philosophy; World History (esp. post-WWII)

Email address: rdelahoz@usf.edu

Education: AA in Humanities, Seminole State College

BA in Philosophy w/minor in History, University of South Florida

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Jeffrey Diamond

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: History of Continental Metaphysics, Leibniz, Philosophical Autobiography

Email address: diamond434@usf.edu

Education: MS in Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BA in Philosophy, College of William & Mary

Important links: Personal Website

Elliott Domagola

MA program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Analytic, Ancient (Greeks/Plato/Aristotle), Epistemology

Email address: edomagola@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy and History, University of Pittsburgh

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Charles "Chet" Duke

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: History of Modern/19th-C. Philosophy (Kierkegaard, Kant), Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Historical Theology

Email address: charlesduke@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy of Religion, Yale University

MTS in Theology, Lipscomb University

BA in Philosophy & Religion, Freed-Hardeman University

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Bridget Erickson

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of the Human Person; Human Affectivity and Emotion; Ancient Philosophy; Christian Personalism

Email address: bridgeterickson@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy and Classics & Early Christian Literature, Ave Maria University

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Gunnar Footh

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Ancient Philosophy (Plato), Epistemology, Critical Theory, History of Philosophy, Christian Theology and Philosophy, Apologetics, Eastern Philosophy (Taoism and Buddhism)

Email address: gunnarfooth@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Georgia State University

BA in Physics and Philosophy, Macalester College

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Jackson Garcia

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Ancient Greek ethics and political theory, Continental philosophy

Email address: desilver@usf.edu

Education: BA in Political Science, University of South Florida

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Scott Harowitz

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Continental Philosophy (esp. Deleuze and Heidegger); Existentialism (esp. Schelling and Kierkegaard); Philosophy of Imagination and Intuition; Psychoanalysis (esp. Jung); Ancient Philosophy

Email address: scottharowitz@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of New Mexico

BA in Philosophy, University of California - Irvine

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Peter Heath

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Aphoristic Wisdom Literature; Christianity and Judaism; Dostoevsky

Email address: heathp@usf.edu

Education: MA in American Literature, Miami University (Ohio)

BA in English and Philosophy, Gordon College

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Jake Hogan

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Normative and Practical Ethics, Moral Progress, Well-being and Human Flourishing

Email address:  jdhogan@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy, Brigham Young University

MA in Philosophy, Georgia State University

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Matthew Hopps

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: matthewhopps@usf.edu

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Leif Jacobson

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Philosophical Pessimism (esp. Schopenhauer and Bahnsen)

Email address: leifjacobson@usf.edu

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Gabe Jansen

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: History of Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, 20th century French Philosophy, Existentialism

Email address: gabejansen@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy, Iowa State University

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Parjanya "PJ" Joshi

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: History and Philosophy of Science, Environmental Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Evolution, Buddhism, Process Metaphysics

Email address: parjanya@usf.edu

Education: MA in Climate Change and Sustainability Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai)

BA, Major in Science, Technology, and Society; Minor in Physics, University of Alberta

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Cheyne Joslin

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Disability

Email address: cheyne1@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of Sussex

BA in Philosophy, Stetson University

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Jason Keyser

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Social and Political Philosophy, Rights, Property, Political Authority, Economic/Social Justification

Email address: jkeyser1@usf.edu

Education: Research MA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

MA, West Chester Univeristy of PA

BA, Slippery Rock University of PA

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Stephen Lasse

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Ancient Greek and Medieval Philosophy, Applied Ethics, American Pragmatism, Comparative Religious Studies

Email address: slasse@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Texas A&M University

BS in Humanities Interdisciplinary, United States Military Academy

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Ethan Linehan

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: History of Modern Philosophy (esp. the Enlightenment and its critics); Political and Social Philosophy (esp. on progress & freedom)

Email address: elinehan@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, George Mason University

BA in Philosophy and History, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Benedito Monteiro

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Social Science; The Question of Values in Science

Email address: beneditoneto@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Federal University of Pará (UFPA)

BA in Philosophy, Pará State University (UEPA)

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David Odom

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Foucault, Political & Social Philosophy, Historicism, History of Medicine

Email address: dto1@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of South Florida

BA in Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University

AA in Pre-Law Focus, Florida Southwestern State College

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Daniel Payne

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: danielpayne1@usf.edu

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Gabriel Slate

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Modern Philosophy, Bioethics, Metaphysics, and Logic

Email address: gslate@usf.edu

Education: BA in Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

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Justin Spain

PhD program in Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Existentialism (esp. Heidegger); Contemporary Philosophy of Action

Email address: justinspain@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of New Mexico

MA in Liberal Arts, St. John's College at Santa Fe

BA in Philosophy, University of Minnesota

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John Tuskey

PhD program in Philosophy and Religion

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Technology; Theological issues of Trans- and Posthumanism; Critical Theory; Social and Political Philosophy.

Email address: jtuskey@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, Northern Illinois University

BS in Philosophy, Portland State University 

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Samuel Ubani

PhD program in Philosophy

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Email address: samuelubani@usf.edu

Education: MA in Philosophy, University of Abuja

BA in Philosophy, University of Abuja

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