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Below are profiles of current graduate students who have agreed to provide online mentorship to interested undergrads. (Click names to expand profile.) 

Sara Aronowitz

I'm a 3rd year grad student at the University of Michigan. I work mostly on epistemology and cognitive science, and also some Jewish philosophy.

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Janella Baxter

I'm a fifth year graduate student at University of Illinois at Chicago. My dissertation is on arguments for causal parity in biology. My areas of specialty are philosophy of biology, metaphysics, and feminist methodology. I've taught courses on philosophy of love and sex and feminist philosophy of science.

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Mara Bollard

I'm a second year grad student in the dept. of philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My main research interests are in ethics and meta-ethics, especially moral psychology.

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Lindsay Brainard

I am a 3rd-year grad at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). My primary research interests are in the philosophy of science. I am particularly interested in the explanatory capacity of fictional scientific models and idealizations.

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Janson Chang

I'm a first-year graduate student in Philosophy at Columbia University and completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford. I particularly enjoy ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of religion, and am deeply passionate about exploring what these branches of philosophy have to say about the way we ought to think, act, and live. I also thoroughly enjoy honest philosophical conversations, especially in informal settings.

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Sherri Lynn Conklin

University of California Santa Barbara Ethics, Moral Worth, Moral Psychology, Action Theory I double majored in Philosophy and Psychology as an undergraduate. While I decided to pursue Philosophy at the graduate level, my background in Psychology greatly informs my work in Philosophy. Recent work includes a thesis titled “Blame and Moral Indifference,” which dealt with application of blame to morally indifferent agents in Nomy Arply’s Unprincipled Virtue. I also completed a dissertation titled “Philosophical Issues with Praise-Blame Asymmetry,” which primarily dealt with philosophical inconsistencies in the empirically-based folk concept of Praise-Blame Asymmetry. I am currently conducting research on the topic of “Responsibility without Blame.” My primary goals are to identify when an agent can be held responsible for her wrong acts without being a candidate for blame.

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Reza Hadisi

I am a third year PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. My main area of research are Kant, Early Modern, metaphilosophy, epistemology and practical reason.

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Nabeel Hamid

I am a 3rd year PhD student at UPenn working on early modern philosophy and Kant.

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Linus Huang

II am a third-year History and Philosophy of Science PhD student at the University of Sydney. I work on the philosophy of cognitive science.

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Anthony Kelley

I'm a Ph.D. student in philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I have a master's in philosophy from Northern Illinois University and a bachelor's in women's studies from Columbia University in the City of New York. My philosophical interests are in meta-ethics (esp. the metaphysics of morality) and African-American philosophy (esp. black solidarity).

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Dwight Lewis

Areas of Specialty: Religion, Race Theory, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language Grad Institution: Current Grad-Student at the University of South Florida

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Filipa Melo Lopes

I’m a Portuguese Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, currently in my 1st year. My main areas of interest are Social and Political Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy.

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Joseph Miller

Hensci! I'm a Native American (Muscogee (Creek) Nation/Mvkoke) PhD student at the University of Washington, Seattle. I received my M.A. in philosophy from Virginia Tech, and my B.A. in philosophy (applied ethics emphasis) and B.A.Sc. in psychology from the University of Minnesota Duluth. My main research interests concern Metaethics and Applied Ethics (really, anything related to ethics!). As someone who's received financial support from my tribe and a teaching assistantship "because" of my status as an Indigenous person, I'm willing to talk with anyone who has experienced (or who is worried about experiencing) discriminatory remarks about your qualifications of being a graduate student having to due only with your race/ethnicity/sex/gender/income level/etc (e.g., "you're only here because of your race."). That being said, I'm also willing to talk with anyone about any kind of discriminatory issues in graduate school.

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Sophie Monahan

I am in philosophy of physics at the University of Michigan.

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Cecilea Mun

I am a Ph.D. Candidate at Arizona State University, a Lecturer at Clemson University, and an Adjunct at the College of Southern Nevada. My AOS is philosophy of emotions.

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Ronni Sadovsky

I'm a third-year grad student at Harvard. I'm interested in non-ideal theories in political and moral philosophy, and particularly in moral issues connected with ideology. I also have a law degree from Harvard Law School, where I focused on anti-discrimination law.

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Charles Sebens

Areas of specialty: Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Metaphysics Grad Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Lindley Slipetz

I'm a second year PhD student in the Logic and Philosophy of Science department at UC-Irvine. I received my BA in philosophy from University of Illinois-Chicago and my MA in philosophy from Virginia Tech. I work on evolutionary game theory and philosophy of science. Students wishing to discuss issues relating to being a first generation college student or a women in philosophy should feel free to contact me (though I'm happy to discuss anything related to college and graduate school).

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Umer Shaikh

I'm a fourth year graduate student at the University of Michigan. I'm in the (still fairly) new Program in Ancient Philosophy. I study ancient metaphysics, science, and logic; my dissertation is on modality and causal powers in Aristotle's work.

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Joe Shin

I am a first year graduate student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My primary area of interest is epistemology.

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Patrick Shirreff

I am PhD candidate at the University of Michigan specializing in philosophy of language and epistemology.

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Nils-Hennes Stear

I am a fifth year PhD student in the University of Michigan's philosophy department. My research is concerned principally with questions at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics.

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Rohan Sud

AOS; Metaphysics Institution: University of Michigan

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Morgan Thompson

I'm a first year grad student in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. I have a Master's in philosophy from Georgia State University. My primary interests are in philosophy of neuroscience and empirically-informed philosophy of mind. I have secondary interests in moral psychology and philosophy of science. Finally, I'm involved in a project that seeks to empirically examine the factors contributing to the underrepresentation of women in philosophy at the undergraduate level. We also propose and test the efficacy of potential solutions when possible.

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Natalia Washington

AI am a PhD candidate in the Philosophy department at Purdue University. My research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, moral psychology, and scientific psychiatry — and especially in externalist viewpoints on these subjects.

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Robin Zheng

5th year grad student at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ethics, Moral Psychology, Social and Political 2nd-generation Asian-American woman

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