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University of Wyoming

Current Graduate Students

 

Christine V. Anderson-Sprecher from Laramie, WY

Interests:

 

Ian Harmon from Springfield, MO

  • TA for Phil 3000.01

  • Office hours: Tues, 11:00-1:00 & Wed, 10:30-11:30

Interests: Primarily ethics and political philosophy, specifically the question of the existence of pure positive moral duties, and the problem of the initial acquisition of unowned property in a Lockean vein.

 

mailto:iharmon@uwyo.edu

Casey Hart from Lakewood, WA

  • TA for Phil 1000.01; Disc sections 21 & 23

  • Office hours: Mon/Wed., 8:00-9:30

Interests:

 

mailto:chart4@uwyo.edu

Justus Johnson from Darby, MT

  • TA for Phil 1000-03

  • Office hours: Wed/Thurs, 1:00-3:00

Interests: Aesthetics, race, and horror and their role in ethics.  The relationship between the concept of punishment and those acts considered just.  Teleology and proofs for the existence of god.

 

mailto:jjohn146@uwyo.edu

Joe Mayes from Stevens Point, WI

  • Research Assistant

Interests: Virtue ethics, Deontology, practical reasoning in ethics, and Kantian moral theory and metaphysics.

 

Events: Presented a paper "A Kantian Place for Virtue" at the 2009 Northwest Student Philosophy Conference.

 

Biography: Originally from central Wisconsin, he moved to Washington and completed his BA in Philosophy at Western Washington University.

 

Jacob Mincey from Morehead, KY

  • TA for Phil 1000-02; Disc Sections 25 & 26

  • Office hours: Tues, 1:30-2:30

Interests:

 

mailto:jmincey@uwyo.edu

 

Andrew Seremetis from Boston, MA

  • TA for Phil 1000-02; Disc Sections 24 & 27

  • Office hours: Tues, 1:00-3:00 & Thurs, 3:00-5:00

Interests: Self-Knowledge and Psychological Content Externalism, Philosophy of Perception especially the Problem of Perception, The Metaphysics of Minds and Persons, The extended Mind, Wittgenstein and Private Language Arguments, The Semantics of Color, Husserl's Phenomenology and the Possibility of Epistemological Foundationalism, The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Qualia and Various Supervenience Theses, Neuroscience and Brains.

 

Thesis Title: Persons and Perception in Light of the Extended Mind

 

Biography: When Andy is not doing Philosophy, he enjoys reading literature, talking about Politics and Economics, listening to lo-fi music (preferably on vinyl), watching old westerns, film noir, and exploitation films, and cooking gourmet cuisine.

 

mailto:aseremet@uwyo.edu

Pablo Zavala from El Paso, TX

  • TA for Phil 1000-01; Disc Sections 20 & 22

  • Office hours: Mon/Wed, 11:00-12:00 & Fri, 12:00-1:00

Interests: History of analytic philosophy, Philosophy of Language and of Mind, Metaphysics and Epistemology. Specifically, two-dimensional and Kripke semantics, the mind-body problem, the conceivability-possibility link, and the nature of possible worlds.

 

mailto:pzavala@uwyo.edu