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Matthew Beasley


Email: Matthew.H.Beasley-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 611

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Aron J. Burnett


Email: aronjburnett@ou.edu

Office: Virtual

Jonathan Casad

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Email: jcasad@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 612

Education: BA Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University

Specialty: Virtue Ethics, Ancient Ethics, Moral Psychology

Zharina Nikko Tomas Casil (she/her/hers)


Email: casi0000@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 616

Specialty: Political Philosophy, Good governance, Decolonial, and Feminist Philosophy

Evan Rowland Cheney


Email: Evan.R.Cheney-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 612    

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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

Cody Harris

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Email: Cody.M.Harris-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 619

Education: BS in Psychology and BS in Philosophy of Science from the University of Utah

Interests: Ethics, Distrust, Responsibility, Religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science & Social Psychology

Stephanie Michelle Holt

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Email: Stephanie.Holt-m@ou.edu

Pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them

Office: Virtual

Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST for Fall 2022

Education: BA Sociology University of North Carolina Charlotte, BA Philosophy University of North Carolina Charlotte, MA Ethics and Applied Philosophy University of North Carolina Charlotte

Specialty: Aesthetics, Carceral Studies, Applied Ethics, Social Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Feminist 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.

Noah Jones

Email: njones17@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 620

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

Chase McCumber


Email: scmccumber@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 615

Education: BA Philosophy, University of Central Oklahoma

Specialty: Ethics, Metaphysics

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

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Matthew L. Nicol


Email: Matthew.L.Nicol-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 611

Education: BA Philosophy, Eastern Washington University

Current Interest: My main interests in philosophy lie in Theories of truth, philosophy of language, pragmatism, and phenomenology and existentialism. A few figures in philosophy which I am quite interested in are Richard Rorty, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Bertrand Russell. Outside of philosophy I am interested in sports (particularly American football, basketball and snowboarding), as well hiking and camping.

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

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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

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

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

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: Epistemology of indoctrination/conspiracy theory belief; Belief formation

Other Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Humor (theories, connection between comedy and tragedy), Ethics and Emerging Technology (AI and entertainment), Ethics of Celebrity and Fanhood, Informal Logic, Ancient Philosophy, and Philosophy of Mind (AI and Consciousness).

Yishu Zhuo


Email: Yishu.Zhuo-1@ou.edu

Office: Dale Hall Tower 611

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