People

Max Campbell

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Jennifer Wang
Email: max_campbell at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/him, they/them

Max entered the MA program in fall 2024. His philosophical interests include indigenous philosophy, Chinese philosophy (particularly Zhuangzi and Xunzi), social rules, the later Wittgenstein, the foundations of logic and mathematics, and standpoint epistemology. He is a board member at the Carnegie Community Centre and a translator, poet, and essayist.

Silas Kim

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Qiu Lin
Email: smk34 at sfu.ca

Silas entered the program in Fall 2025 after graduating from California State University, Long Beach, majoring in English Literature and creative writing, minoring in philosophy and psychology. Silas is interested in value theory, especially moral psychology and social and political philosophy.

Alison Air 

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Jennifer Wang
Email: lla312 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: she/her

Alison entered the MA program in Fall 2025 after completing her BA in Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her philosophical interests include normative ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. She has a special interest in moral obligation and the works of Christine Korsgaard. Her current research focuses on the obligations we hold towards young children, the metaphysics of personal identity in plural systems, steadfastness in peer disagreement as an epistemic virtue, and objections against the common ethical presupposition that "ought implies can".

Yiqun Chen

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Nic Bommarito
Email: yca536 at sfu.ca

Yiqun entered the program in Fall 2025. Prior to entering the program, Yiqun graduated from Southeast University (Nanjing) with a BA in Philosophy and is currently interested in social and political philosophy, ethics, and social ontology. These interests include topics such as autonomy and agency, interpersonal relationship, as well as collective responsibility.

Alec Wild

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Evan Tiffany
Email: aaw17 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/him

Alec entered the MA program in Fall 2025. Prior to entering the program, he graduated with a BS in chemistry from the University of Chicago and studied Philosophy as a non-degree student at Colorado State University. His philosophical interests broadly reside within general philosophy of science, epistemology, and the philosophy of chemistry. Within these fields, he has particular interests in the topics of scientific objectivity, social epistemology, and abductive reasoning.

Barnard Krouch

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Alex King

Email: bvk at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/they

Barnard entered the MA program in Fall 2025. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is interested in the philosophy of race and aesthetics. These interests foster questions concerning violent decolonization, conceptual fashion, and how philosophy can be taught beyond academia. 

Cihan Capan

MA Student

Supervisor: Dr. Nic Fillion
Email: cca427 at sfu.ca

Cihan entered the MA program in fall 2023.  He graduated from Bilkent University with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Psychology.  He is interested in, especially epistemic, paradoxes, logic, and formal epistemology. 

Elliot Liu

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Holly Andersen
Email: zla307 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/him

Elliot entered the MA program in fall 2024, after completing a philosophy BA at the University of Washington-Seattle . While his philosophical interests are wide ranging, some of the more pronounced areas include epistemology, general philosophy of science (especially the realist vs antirealist debate ), and metaethics. He has also started (barely) working on political philosophy as well.

Elliott DeWitte

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Nic Fillion
Email: ced11 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: they/them

Elliott entered the MA program in fall 2024 after completing a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics at Macalester College.  They are currently interested in logical truth, paradoxes, Bayesian epistemology, and feminist philosophy of science.  Generally, they are interested in what people know, who it is that thinks they know it, how they know it, and how much they're willing to bet that they know it.

Henry (Zhaozhang) Zhu

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Zara Anwarzai
Email: zza349 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/him

Henry entered the MA program in the fall of 2025 after completing a BA in Philosophy at Wuhan University. The philosophical topics he is interested in—including joint actions, social norms and rule-following—have drawn him into social ontology, philosophy of action, normativity, and related empirical studies.

Liza Thomas

MA Student

Supervisor (interim): Dr. Jennifer Wang
Email: sjt13 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: she/her

Liza entered the MA program in Fall 2025. She completed her BA in Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her philosophical interests lie at the intersections of metaphysics and ethics, and epistemology and ethics. Questions in the areas of philosophy of mind and aesthetics also fascinate her. Her non-philosophical interests include jazz, cinema, and animation.