Ulrika Carlsson

Ulrika Carlsson received her BA in Philosophy in 2004, from Lund University in Sweden. In 2004/05, she was an exchange student at UCLA. As an undergraduate, she also studied English, French and Russian. She is primarily interested in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics. This is her second year in the program.

Tim Clark

Francesca Crocetti

Francesca Crocetti graduated from the University of Florence in 2000 with a Thesis on the theory of freedom in A. Schopenhauer. She published in February 2003 an anthology on A. Schopenhauer and music and several papers in the Philosophical Review «Parénklisis» (www.clinamen.it), focusing, in particular, on philosophers such as F. Nietzsche, S. Kierkegaard, M. Heidegger and H. Arendt. Francesca is now participating in the Yale BW-Exchange Program, studying at the University of Heidelberg and working at her Dissertation.

Gerd Groenewold

Gerd Groenewold entered the Yale graduate school in 2002, after earning his BA in Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. At present, he is interested in the relation between ethics and aesthetics. Philosophers of particular interest to him include Plato, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

Sungil Han

Dawn Jacob

Dawn Jacob is a fourth-year graduate student who earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy at the University of Akron, in Akron, OH, the hometown that she shares with W.V.O. Quine. Her philosophical interests highlight ancient philosophy and philosophy of language, although she is currently cultivating a taste for modern philosophy. Her real-life interests include karate, ballroom dancing, cooking, and literature.

Stacey Kennard

As an undergraduate, Markus studied philosophy and economics in the German town of Bayreuth and at the National University of Singapore. In 2004, he graduated with a BA in Philosophy & Economics from the University of Bayreuth. Subsequently, Markus spent one year as a graduate student at the University College London. Markus enjoys traveling and hopes to visit all 50 American states one day.
You can visit his web page at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ml557

Heidi Howkins Lockwood studied philosophy and mathematics at Wellesley College, and was originally a PhD student in philosophy at MIT some time in the late 20th century. She is returning to philosophy after a long hiatus during which she attempted to acquire a better understanding of reality by climbing Himalayan 8,000-meter peaks such as Kanchenjunga, K2, and Everest with support from the National Geographic Society's Expedition Council. Although the expeditions didn't improve her grasp of reality, they did lead her to the realization that "wilderness" describes not just a specific type of place, but the way in which man interacts with such places. Her book describing the expeditions was published by National Geographic in 2001 and has been translated into German, Spanish, Polish, Urdu, and a few other languages she doesn?t recognize. Heidi?s ZOPC (zones of philosophical comfort) include metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and philosophical logic. In particular, she is interested in the metaphysics of modality, possible-worlds semantics, and questions related to transworld identity, the individuation of possible worlds, and the nature of time.

Charles V. More

Charles V. More completed the B.A. in Classical Studies at Claremont McKenna College and the M.Phil. in Literae Humaniores (Classical Languages) at Oxford.Subsequently he spent a year at the Department of Philosophy in Tübingen, Germany, and, following that, he was a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at Berkeley.

Aaron Norby

Geoffrey Pynn

Geoff works primarily iin epistemology, but also has interests in language, mind, and early modern. His dissertation concerns skeptical arguments and a priori justification.

Tina is a third year graduate student in philosophy.  Her primary philosophical interests are in ethics.  At this point, this includes, broadly, normative ethics, international ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law and metaethics.  In addition, she is interested in metaphysics and aesthetics. Tina received her B.A. in Philosophy and German from the University of Denver in 2003.

Anat Schechtman

Anat Schechtman is in her fourth year of graduate studies at Yale. Her dissertation work is concerned with the epistemological status of infinity, and defends Descartes against Kant on this issue. Other philosophical interests include the philosophy of mathematics, Kantian aesthetics, Hobbes, and rationalism more generally. Anat received her bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Mathematics from the Program for Outstanding Students in Tel Aviv University. She has spent one year of her graduate studies in Heidelberg, Germany.

Alex Silverman

Jason Smith

Jason Smith is a 3rd year student interested in ethics. He enjoys hanging out with friends and family and playing the bass guitar. He hopes to get a job someday.

Gaurav Vazirani

Matthew Walker

Matt Walker graduated from Amherst College and worked as a book editor in New York before starting at Yale in 2002. His dissertation, "Living by Contemplation: Theôria, Self-Maintenance, and Flourishing in Aristotle's Ethics," argues that Aristotle accounts for contemplation's place in human flourishing by reference to its guiding role in the self-maintaining activity of human beings. Outside of ancient philosophy and ethics, Matt's interests include 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, and philosophy in film and literature.

Leslie Wolf

Leslie is principally interested in metaphysics, and he is currently writing a dissertation on persistence. His other interests include philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, ancient philosophy and early modern philosophy.

Tim Yenter