Ritam Chakraborty entered the MA program in fall 2021, after completing a BA in philosophy and a postgraduate diploma with an advanced major in philosophy, both at Ashoka University, India. His specific areas of interest in philosophy are normative ethics, metaethics, and logic. Besides, he also takes interest in social and political philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, and Indian philosophy.

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Lisa Shapiro
Email: ritam_chakraborty at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4617

Eddie Cai entered the MA program in fall 2020. His primary interests at the moment are in logic and the philosophy of language. Some topics of interest include truthmaker semantics (subject matter, partial content), truth, propositions, and first order model theory.

Supervisor: Dr. Tom Donaldson  
Email:  eddie_cai at sfu.ca
Office: WMC 4623

Iman Ferestade entered the MA program in fall 2020. He is a Ph.D. graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology. He has also been a visiting scholar at Virginia Tech university. His research interests are Philosophy of physics (classical mechanics), philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science. 

Supervisor Dr. Nic Fillion
Email: iman_ferestade at sfu.ca
Office: WMC 4621

Mete Han Gencer entered the MA program in fall 2020 after majoring in philosophy and minoring in psychology at Bilkent University. His current interests are shaped by the questions of why people do what they do, and whether their reasons are justifiable by any means. These often lead him to explore more of the philosophy of action and metaethics. He also enjoys learning and thinking about long-standing and complex sources of motivation, such as power, religion, and social justice.

Supervisor: Dr. Bruno Guindon
Email: mete_gencer at sfu.ca
Office: WMC 4609

Chang Han entered the MA program in fall 2020. She graduated from Nanjing University in China with a Bachelor's Degree of Philosophy. She is currently interested in questions in ethics, political philosophy and epistemology.

Supervisor:  Dr. Alex King
Email: cha157 at sfu.ca
Office: WMC 4609

Curtis Hrusik entered the MA program in fall 2020. His interests are broad; currently his focal interests are in the philosophy of language.

Supervisor:  Dr. Tom Donaldson
Email:  curtis_hrusik at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4611

Yanjie Ding entered the MA program in fall 2021. He graduated from Shandong University with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. He is currently interested in metaethics and moral psychology. He also takes interest in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of action, so as to better understand how people think and act morally.

Supervisor: Dr. Nicolas Bommarito
Email: yanjie_ding at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4615

Shivanshu Mishra entered the MA program in fall 2021.

Supervisor: Dr. Dai Heide
Email: sma270 at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4607

Jacob Schwartz entered the MA program in fall 2021. He graduated with a BA in Computer Science from Vassar College in 2019. He is primarily interested in normative ethics and epistemology. He also has interests in decision theory, social and political philosophy, bioethics, and Buddhist philosophy.

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Thomas Donaldson
Email: jhs17 at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4609

Tiange (Eileen) Wang entered the MA program in fall 2021, after completing a double major in Computer Science and Humanities (Philosophy) at New York University Shanghai. She is interested in metaethics, normative ethics, and logic.

Supervisor:  Dr. Alex King
Email: twa137 at sfu.ca 
Office:  WMC 4607

Reetika Kalita entered the MA program in Fall 2021. She has a BA in History from Delhi University, and an MA in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Philosophy from Ashoka University, India. Her interests lie primarily in metaphysics and philosophy of mind and, in particular, their relationship to logic and normativity. She is also interested in political theory, and spends time thinking, especially, about issues in feminist philosophy and Marxism.

Supervisor:  Dr. Kathleen Akins
Email:  rka102 at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4621

Sherif Salem entered the MA program in fall 2020. He holds an MSc. in Economics from Queen Mary University of London, and an MA in Philosophy from the American University in Cairo. He is interested in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of logic/mathematics, metaphilosophy, history of analytic philosophy, and non-western philosophical traditions (particularly, Islamic philosophy and African philosophy). He is also the co-founder of the Middle East Society for Analytic Philosophy

Supervisor:  Dr. Jennifer Wang
Email: sherif_salem at sfu.ca
Office: WMC 

Mary Purcell entered the MA program in fall 2021, after completing a BA in English and philosophy at the University of Scranton. She is primarily interested in metaphysics, political philosophy, and ethics. 

Supervisor:  Dr. Lisa Shapiro
Office:  WMC 4615

Winston Meier entered the MA program in fall 2021. His current interests are in philosophy of mind, particularly in issues concerning reductivism, perception and prediction. He's also generally interested in social and political philosophy.   

Supervisor: Dr. Holly Andersen
Email: wma28 at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4607

Chrysogonus Okwenna entered the MA program in fall 2021. He completed his BA in Philosophy from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. At the moment, he is more broadly interested in the intersection between African philosophy, ethics, epistemology and the associated areas of philosophy of medicine and bioethics. He is particularly interested in the ethical-epistemic issues in medicine, science and society. In addition, he approaches these issues from an African perspective.

Supervisor: Dr. Chelsea Rosenthal
Email: cmo4 at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4611

Abhi Ruparelia entered the MA program in fall 2021, following a BA in philosophy and leadership studies at the University of Richmond, Virginia. He is primarily interested in meta-ethics, legal and political philosophy, and ancient philosophy. He also has secondary interests in logic, philosophy of mathematics, and Buddhist philosophy.

Supervisor: Dr. Bruno Guindon
Email: abhi_ruparelia at sfu.ca
Office:  

Elliot Schwartz entered the MA program in fall 2021 after completing his BA in philosophy and cognitive science at Carleton College. Currently, his main areas of focus are epistemology, language, and logic. He is also interested in cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy pertaining to these fields.

Supervisor: Dr. Holly Andersen
Email: egs4 at sfu.ca
Office:  

Junyi Guo entered the MA program in fall 2021, following an MSc in Political Theory from LSE, UK and a BA in Politic and Public Administration from SYSU, China. While studying political philosophy, she was interested in what political freedom is, and how we can achieve political freedom through political action and political judgement. Now, she is opening her eyes to broad areas in philosophy. Currently, she has a great interest in how human beings understand themselves and the world. And starting from that, what moral, social and political implications are in different theories of understanding.

Supervisor: Dr. Nicolas Bommarito
Email: jga153 at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4616

Yangyang Wang entered the MA program in fall 2021. Her interests are broad. Initially she was fascinated by Ancient Greek philosophy and spent most of her effort studying Plato and Aristotle’s metaphysics. Later she developed more interests in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of language. Currently she wants to explore more on logic, feminist philosophy, philosophy of technology and social epistemology.

Supervisor:  Dr. Jennifer Wang
Email:  ywa389 at sfu.ca
Office:  WMC 4617