Graduate Students

I received a BS in computer science from the University of California, Riverside. I am interested in all things Kant, and broadly philosophy in the 18th-20th century German tradition. Thinkers who fascinate me, following Kant, include Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Cohen, Cassirer, Apelt, Bergson, and Goethe. Questions concerning freedom, morality, agency, and human life are often at the forefront of their thought. I also have a burgeoning interest in ancient philosophy, and in how later German thinkers like Hartmann, Natorp, Nietzsche, and Heidegger returned to and reinterpreted ancient ideas. Feel free to message me at chloe.au@tufts.edu.

I graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2018 with a BA in History and a minor in Philosophy. Following graduation, I began serving as an Armor Officerwith the United States Army. While serving in the Army, I enjoyed the opportunity to continue my studies in history and completed my MA at Norwich University in August 2023. I am primarily interested in philosophy of mind, especially regarding issues of consciousness and its application to artificial intelligence. I also have interests in epistemology and metaethics. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my family and being outdoors hiking, camping, and skiing, as well as traveling and reading. Feel free to contact me at zbrown06@tufts.edu.

I graduated from Koç University in 2025 with a BA in Business Administration (thankfully, this has become quite irrelevant now) and Philosophy. My philosophical interests are mainly in metaethics. I am especially interested in asking how evolutionary theory should inform the way we think about moral phenomena. Other than that, two historical figures that I am in awe of are Aristoteles and Kant.

I graduated from Harvard College in 2025 with a BA in Philosophy. As an undergraduate, I became interested in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, epistemology, and Later Wittgenstein; I’m now obsessed with how they inform each other. Outside of class, I’m usually watching movies, painting theater sets, or reading novels.

I graduated in 2024 from St. John’s College with a BA in Liberal Arts. My philosophical interests include Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy. I also harbor some investment in the works of Soren Kierkegaard. Outside of class, I enjoy playing tennis, hosting a study group, and an occasional Guiness. You can reach me at ogonza03@tufts.edu.

I graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2023. I have broad philosophical interests spanning various areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, and logic, as well as game theory, Buddhist philosophy, and comparative philosophy. However, the questions that I am primarily interested in asking concern the philosophy of mind and cognitive science: What is the nature of mental causation? What is the nature of non-human animal mentality, and what can it tell us about the evolution of human mentality? What is the nature of self-knowledge, and is this kind of knowledge fallible? Can we (or how might we) explain the nature of consciousness in a manner that is consistent with physicalism while still respecting the unique properties of consciousness as a natural phenomenon? Outside of philosophy, I am an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction (I especially love Ray Bradbury’s fiction), and among other activities, I enjoy writing short stories, eating good vegetarian food, exploring the natural world (especially through hiking and bike-riding), and listening to the Grateful Dead. Feel free to email me at tjungb01@tufts.edu. 

I graduated from BU in 2025 with a BA in Philosophy. My philosophical interests include Aristotelian metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the relationship between philosophy and literature (I especially love Russian lit!). Outside of academics, I’m a competitive powerlifter and love to stay active!

I graduated from Yale with a BA in Economics, then served as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps before earning my MBA from Harvard Business School. I spent the following years working in business, most recently in charcuterie. My philosophical interests are in philosophy of mind, moral responsibility, and business ethics. I'm particularly interested in the moral dimensions of attention and agency. Outside of philosophy, I enjoy spending time with my wife and three kids, reading science fiction, and going to the gym. You can reach me at david.kemp@tufts.edu.

I studied philosophy at the University of Chicago, graduating with my AB in 2025. Philosophically, my interests are broad, but currently lie most in logic and epistemology — particularly, the nature of inference, rationality, and entailment. I wrote my undergrad thesis on the (un)believability of logical contradictions, with an eye to Aristotle and Wittgenstein. I’m also an avid fan of Tottenham Hotspur and European football; I enjoy solving and constructing crossword puzzles; and I perform stand-up comedy on the side. Be in touch at joshua.kindler@tufts.edu if you’d like to speak, think, read, watch, solve, or perform together!

I graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Classical Studies in 2026 from the University of California, Riverside. My interests in philosophy are broadly in philosophy of action, philosophy of language, (meta)ethics, and some philosophy of mind. I am mostly interested in virtue ethics, metaphysics of capacities/dispositions/powers, practical rationality, evaluative terms and concepts, and semantics; Anscombe, Ryle, McDowell, Wittgenstein, and Aristotle are thinkers of particular interest to me.  I also have broad interests in philosophy of addiction and weakness of the will. Outside of philosophy I enjoy beer and coffee, going to the gym, and playing guitar. You can reach me at ainara.ibarrondo@tufts.edu.

I graduated from the University of San Francisco in 2025, where I majored in biology and minored in chemistry and philosophy. I did three years of research in an evolutionary developmental biology lab, doing work involving regeneration and body plan specification in acoel flatworms. I later did philosophy research regarding algorithmic governance, transparency duties and the ethics of opaque algorithmic decision making models. My philosophical interests are still quite broad; however, at present I am interested in the ethics of technology and artificial intelligence, social epistemology, and philosophy of law. Outside of philosophy, I love to read literary fiction, play guitar, make pottery, and listen to live music. I also love spending time outdoors, especially biking and hiking. If you’d like to connect, you can reach me at sara.tagol@tufts.edu.

I completed an MLitt in philosophy with distinction from the University of St Andrews in 2026, following my BA in finance from UBC in 2025. My primary interest is in the philosophy of language, particularly questions surrounding metasemantics/foundational semantics. In virtue of what are semantically significant items endowed with their semantic significance? What is the right methodology for metasemantic theorizing — interpretationist, productivist, or something else? What consequences do the plethora of indeterminacy arguments bear on natural language? I also have interests in conceptual engineering, vagueness, metaphilosophy, and David Lewis. Outside of Philosophy, I like the piano, golf, and food. My email is guo.tang@tufts.edu.

I graduated from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2026 with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Mathematics. My main philosophical interests are epistemology, philosophical logic, particularly modal logic, and applied ethics, but I get easily excited about almost everything in analytic philosophy. In my free time, I like to delve into all kinds of fiction: watching movies, binging TV shows, listening to audiobooks, reading, or going to the theater. Feel free to reach out to me at hannah.theis@tufts.edu.

I graduated from Koc University in 2025 with a double major in Philosophy and Psychology. My primary philosophical interests are in the philosophy of action (especially Anscombe) and the philosophy of mind, with a particular focus on consciousness and the mind-body problem. I'm also intrigued by various topics in epistemology, such as skepticism and certainty, and in metaphysics, including free will, fatalism, and future contingency. I enjoy reading phenomenologists like Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, as well as ancient philosophers, mostly Plato. Outside of philosophy, I enjoy music and literature, and I'm a fan of Galatasaray. Feel free to reach out to me at svarol01@tufts.edu.

I graduated from NYU Shanghai with a BA in Social Sciences on the track of Political Science in 2025. My primary philosophical interests are social and political philosophy and feminist philosophy, especially the theorization of capitalism. Recently, I have become interested in questions in social epistemology: What is the foundation of understanding and public will in the political context? How do people derive understanding and knowledge from information, especially false information? Is reason the basis for the public will or not? Aside from philosophy, I enjoy watching tennis and Formula 1. You can reach me at Jiawei.Ye@tufts.edu.