People
Graduate Students
Safa Ahmadian
MA Student
Supervisor: Dr. Endre Begby
Email: ssa535 at sfu.ca
Safa entered the program in fall 2022.
Neha Nandakumar
MA Student
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Wang
Email: nna57 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: she/her
Neha entered the MA program in Fall 2023. She completed her undergraduate education at Ashoka University, India, where she majored in Philosophy and Sociology/Anthropology. Her primary interests lie in feminist philosophy and moral psychology.
Gonzalo Ricaldi Perez
MA Student
Supervisor: Dr. Endre Begby
Email: ggr1 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/him/his
Gonzalo entered the MA program in fall 2023. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. His current interests in philosophy are in the philosophy of language and metaphysics, particularly in the problem of future contingents and theories of assertion.
AJ Jinkins
MA Student
Supervisor: Dr. Holly Andersen
Email: ajj5 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: she/they
AJ entered the MA program in fall 2023 after completing her BA in philosophy at Portland State University. Her philosophical interests include epistemology, rationality, and perception.
Phuong (Brooklyn) Bui
MA Student
Supervisor (interim): Dr. Kino Zhao
Email: ptb at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers
Brooklyn entered the MA program in fall 2024. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a double major in Philosophy and Psychology. Her interests are metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and history of philosophy. She's also interested in aesthetics and feminist philosophy and wants to explore the intersection between philosophy and psychology. Outside of philosophy, she enjoys long walks, being in nature, doing yoga and playing with her cat.
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.
George Gerber
MA Student
Supervisor (interim): Dr. Evan Tiffany
Email: george_gerber at sfu.ca
George entered the MA program in fall 2024. George first studied philosophy at Dartmouth College and is interested in the metaphilosophy, value theory, and the philosophy of language. In practice, these interests often concern conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics, ideological and conceptual disagreements in the social world (esp. politics and law), and non-ideal semantics and pragmatics.
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. Bruno Guindon
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
Preferred pronouns: she/her
Yiqun entered the program in Fall 2025. Prior to entering the program, she graduated from Southeast University (Nanjing) with a BA in Philosophy. She is currently interested in social and political philosophy, ethics, and social ontology. The topics that she is paying attention to now are autonomy and agency, interpersonal relationship, as well as collective responsibility.
Grace Shaw
MA Student
Supervisor: Dr. Holly Andersen
Email: gashaw at sfu.ca
Grace entered the MA program in fall 2022 after completing her BA in Cognitive Systems from the University of British Columbia with a minor in philosophy. She is interested in philosophy of mind, social justice, and speculative fiction.
Nayancee Shrivastava
MA Student
Supervisor: Dr. Evan Tiffany
Email: nsa149 at sfu.ca
Nayancee entered the MA program in fall 2022.
Tony Kohan
MA Student
Supervisor (interim): Dr. Dai Heide
Email: aka305 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/him
Tony entered the MA program in fall 2023. He has a BSc in computer science from the University of Victoria and a BA in philosophy from the University of British Columbia. His interests include logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics.
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.
Feiya Zhang
MA Student
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Wang
Email: fza67 at sfu.ca
Feiya entered the MA program in fall 2023. Prior to this, she accomplished her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is interested in topics such as theories of emotion, temporality, fiction, and the comparison of values from ethics and aesthetics. Beyond her philosophical research, she is exploring the relationship between fictional writing and philosophical argumentation, and how the two can be combined.
Fengyuan Liu
MA Student
Supervisor (interim): Dr. Qiu Lin
Email: fla90 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/him/his
Fengyuan entered the MA program in fall 2024. He holds a research master's degree from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a bachelor's degree from Nankai University in China. His research interests are focused on early modern European philosophy, with a specific emphasis on the interactions between metaphysics, epistemology, and religion. Moreover, he has a keen interest in a number of other topics and areas, including emergence (philosophy of science), secularism (philosophy of religion) and HPS.
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.
Matt McGrath
MA Student
Supervisor: Dr. Alex King
Email: mcm19 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: he/him
Matt entered the MA program in fall 2024 after studying Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His philosophical interests usually reside within the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of fiction.
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.
Elena Hudson
MA Student
Supervisor (interim): Dr. Chelsea Rosenthal
Email: eha90 at sfu.ca
Preferred pronouns: she/her
Elena entered the MA program in fall 2024. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her interests broadly include ethics, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy, including Ancient Greek philosophy. Currently, she is interested in ideas around political revolution and social change.