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Matthew Beasley


Email: Matthew.H.Beasley-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 611

Hunter Bissette

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Email: hlbisset@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 615

Education: B.A. Philosophy; B.A. Religious Studies; Minor Logic; Minor Cognitive Science--North Carolina State University. 

Interests: Analytic Value Theory/Axiology, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and Meta-Philosophy

Aron J. Burnett


Email: aronjburnett@ou.edu

Office: Virtual

Jonathan Casad

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Email: jcasad@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 617

Education: B.A. Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University; M.A. Philosophy, University of Oklahoma.

Specialty: Normative Ethics, Virtue Ethics, Moral Psychology. Other areas of interest: Applied Ethics (including: Business Ethics, Bioethics, and Applied Character Ethics), History of Ethics, Ancient Philosophy.

Evan Rowland Cheney


Email: Evan.R.Cheney-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 612    

Cameron Clark

Dan Deng


Email: dan224@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 620

Jordan Droira


Email: Jordan.I.Droira-1@ou.edu

Office: Virtual    

Education: B.A. Philosophy, Florida International University

Specialty: Virtue Ethics, Social Epistemology

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Natalie Elliot


Email: nataliee@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 621

Education: B.A. Philosophy University of Oklahoma: Current M.L.I.S. student University of Oklahoma

Specialty/Areas of Interest: Reference & Information Retrieval, Philosophy of Information, Normative & Applied Ethics, Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Computer Games & Game Studies

Max Geiszler

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Email: Logan.M.Geiszler-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 619

Education: BA Philosophy and Economics, University of Oklahoma

Specialty: Philosophy of Social Science, Wittgenstein, Feminist and Social Epistemology, and Ancient Greek Philosophy

Matt Hangen

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Email: Matthew.J.Hangen-1@ou.edu

Office: Virtual

Education: B.A. and M.A. in New Testament Theology and Missiology from Faulkner University

Specialty/Areas of Interest: Ancient Philosophy, History of Religion, Economics, Ethics, Political Philosophy

Andy V. Huynh

Email: Andy.V.Huynh-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 612

Education: B.A. Philosophy UC Berkeley, M.A. Philosophy Loyola Marymount University

Interests: My main interest lie in Virtue Ethics and Political Philosophy with interests in questions of Democracy, Distributive Justice, and the debate between Liberalism and Communitarianism. I also am interested in topics within Aesthetics, Bioethics, and Existentialism.

Samuel Jonathan


Email: Samuel.Vincenzo.Jonathan-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 611

Noah Jones

Email: njones17@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 617

Education: BA Philosophy, Oklahoma Baptist University

Specialty: History of Ethics, Ethical Theory, Ancient Philosophy

Lika Kareva


Email: Anzhelika.Kareva-1@ou.edu

Education: Specialist in Literary Work, Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (Moscow, Russia)

Specialty: Philosophy of Perception, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science

Yibai Liu


Email: yibai.liu@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 615

Education: BA Economics Beihang University, MA Philosophy Renmin University of China

Specialty: Epistemology

Areas of Interest: Metaethics, Later Wittgenstein, and Pragmatism

Joshua McKeown


Email: jdmckeown@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 612

Conor McMahon


Email: Conor.P.Mcmahon-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 611

Education: BA Canisius College, MA University at Buffalo

Specialty: Chinese Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Language

Jonathan Mitchell


Email: Jonathan.J.Mitchell-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 615

Marlon Rivas Tinoco


Email: Marlon.P.Rivas.Tinoco-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 616

Education: B.A. Philosophy Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; M.A. Human Development, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; M.A. Philosophy, Georgia State University

Specialty: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

Areas of interest: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Logic, Philosophy of Action

 

Owen Spalding


Email: Owen.H.Spalding-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 616

Brandon Sutton

Email: Brandon.D.Sutton-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 620

Education: BA Liberal Arts-English Option, Rogers State University 

Specialty: Normative and Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Paradoxes, and Logical Fallacies

Luke Tucker

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Email: luke_tucker@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 617

Education: BA Philosophy and English, Baylor University

Specialty: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

Melle van Duijn


Email: Melle.Van.Duijn-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 608

Education: BA Philosophy and Spanish, University of the Ozarks; MA Philosophy, Oklahoma State University.

Specialty: Ancient Philosophy, Applied Ethics.

Violet Victoria


Email: violet.victoria@ou.edu

Education: B.A. Political Science and Native American Studies, Columbia University

Specialty: Philosophy of Economics, Ethics, Social/Political Philosophy

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Cesar Villatoro


Email: Cesar.M.Villatoro-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 619

Layla S. Williams


Email: williamsls1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 608

Education: BA Philosophy, East Tennessee State University

Specialty: Epistemology, Ethics and Technology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

Jinhui Wang


Email: jinhuiwang@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 616

Michelle Woodland


Email: Michelle.M.Woodland-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 619

Education: BA in Philosophy from New Mexico State University; BCJ in Criminal Justice from New Mexico State University; MA in Philosophy from Texas Tech University

Specialty: Indigenous Philosophy 

Other Areas of Interest: Kinship/environmental ethics, decolonization, and Indigenous methodologies.

Yishu Zhuo


Email: Yishu.Zhuo-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 611