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Gabriel Bruguier
Gabriel Bruguier is a philosophy graduate student at UNL. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Minnisota, Morris, and a Licentiate degree in International Relations from the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico. He also completed some graduate work in philosophy at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico, which focused on Latin American and contemporary continental philosophy. He is writing a dissertation which focuses on the question of the meaning of life. Gabriel is currently the Educational Programs Coordinator at the Nebraska Transportation Center.
Andrew Christmas
Andrew Christmas is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL.
Hai "Mark" Diep
Hai "Mark" Diep is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL.
Aaron Elliott
Aaron Elliott is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. He received a BA in philosophy and sociology from Northern Arizona University, and an MA in philosophy from San Diego State University. Aaron works primarily in meta-ethics, metaphysics, and ethics. His dissertation is about the metaphysics of non-naturalist realism. His committee is Mark van Roojen (chair), Aaron Bronfman, John Brunero, and Joseph Mendola. Selected papers are available at https://un-lincoln.academia.edu/AaronElliott.
Luke Elwonger
Luke Elwonger is a philosophy graduate student at UNL. He earned a BA degree in Philosophy and Chemistry from UC Berkeley. He worked for a short time as a chemist before returning to philosophy. His main interests are Epistemology and Metaethics. Beyond his professional interests he also maintains a tumultuous love affair with surrealist and existentialist literature.
Zachary Garrett
Zachary Garrett is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL.
Shane J. George
Shane George is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. He received a BA degree in Philosophy and a BA degree in English from the University of North Florida in 2006. He attended the Masters Program at Northern Illinois University prior to coming to UNL. His primary areas of philosophical interest are Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics of Time. He has a growing interest in Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics, Metaethics, and tends to study other areas of philosophy as the spirit moves him. Outside of philosophical pursuits, he enjoys playing and listening to live music, not taking things seriously, twiddling his thumbs, documentaries, answering questions in obtuse fashions, ambiguities, and TV/VCR repair. In his spare time, he likes to contemplate what he should do with his spare time.
Landon Hedrick
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Landon Hedrick is a philosophy graduate student at UNL. He graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 2009 with a double major in Philosophy and History. His primary area of interest is epistemology, although he also works in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics. He lives with his girlfriend, Tara, and their three pets: Henry, Riley, and Theo.
Jason Lemmon
Jason Lemmon is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. He received a BA in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996, and an MA in philosophy from Northern Illinois University, 2001. Lately he has been reading intellectual history as well as philosophy, and he received an MA in history from the University of Oregon in 2012. His main interest at present is the nature of practical reason.
Kevin Patton
Kevin Patton is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. He received his BA degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2013. Kevin's philosophical interests are wide-ranging and include in metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and ethics. His non-philosophic interests include powerlifting, computer repair, video games, cigars, and anything do-it-yourself.
Katerina Psaroudaki
Katerina Psaroudaki is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL.
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Chelsea Richardson
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Chelsea Richardson is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. She received her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2013. Her main philosophical interests are in ethics, social and political philosophy, and other areas concerning applied ethical issues. While pursuing her degree at Marist she completed an internship on a local farm in the Hudson Valley that inspired her senior thesis regarding the philosophical implications of modern agriculture. She enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, reading novels, spending hours on end in Lincoln's multitude of independent coffee shops, seeing back-to-back films at the theatre, Pinterest, YouTube, listening to live music, cooking, and spending time with friends and family. To see her CV and get to know her a little better, please contact Chelsea via her LinkedInprofile.
Mark Albert Selzer
Mark A. Selzer is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. He earned a BA in philosophy from California State University, East Bay and an MA in philosophy from San Francisco State University. He is primarily interested in normativity, reason, and agency. He is especially interested in whether these notions work differently in the case of groups and, if so, how.
Andrew Spaid
Andrew "Andy" Spaid is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. He received his BA degree in philosophy and psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary interests are in epistemology and ethics.
Christopher Stratman Christopher Stratman is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. He received his BGS and MA degrees at the University of Kansas. He has an eclectic range of philosophical interests. His primary philosophical interests are in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology (especially the interface between these areas). His secondary philosophical interests are in ontology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of psychology. His tertiary philosophical interests are contemporary analytic philosophy, history of modern philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Additionally, Christopher has increasingly become interested in philosophical problems concerning the free will versus determinism debate, personal identity over time, self-knowledge, and meta-cognition. His non-philosophical interests include, but are not limited to, photography, history of fine arts, playing guitar, writing music, exploring new and interesting places, and spending time with his family.
Lauren Sweetland
Lauren is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. Lauren received her BA in philosophy from Arizona State University and her MA degree in philosophy from ASU as well. Lauren’s research interests are primarily social and political philosophy, metaethics, ethics, and epistemology. She is also interested in philosophy of science and applied ethics. Lauren enjoys reading, listening to black metal, and makeup artistry.
Cheng Chang Tu
Cheng Chang "Alfred" Tu is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL. He received both his BA and MA in philosophy from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. His primary research interests are metaphysics and epistemology.
Zachariah Wrublewski
Zachariah Wrublewski is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL.
Daniel Wyrembelski
Daniel Wyrembelski is a philosophy graduate student and teaching assistant at UNL.
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