#  Job Market Candidates 

 



  [### Mustafa Aziz

 ](/people/mustafa-aziz) <mustafaaziz@g.harvard.edu>PhD candidate

 

 

Research Interests: Greek philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy, Phenomenology



 

 

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   [### Luke Ciancarelli

 ](/people/luke-ciancarelli) <lukeciancarelli@g.harvard.edu>PhD candidate

 

 

Research Interests: Ethics &amp; Moral Psychology (especially Kantian); Philosophy of Mind; History of Modern Philosophy (Early Modern, Kantian, and Post-Kantian)



 

 

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   [### Britta Clark

 ](/people/britta-clark) <brittaclark@g.harvard.edu>

Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Climate and Environmental Ethics, Ethics of Technology, Philosophy of Economics



 

 

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   [### Megan Entwistle

 ](/people/megan-entwistle) <entwistle@g.harvard.edu>

 

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   [### Zach Gabor

 ](/people/zach-gabor) <zgabor@g.harvard.edu>

Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Biology



 

 

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   [### Smriti Khanal

 ](/people/smriti-khanal) <smritikhanal@g.harvard.edu>

Research interests: Classical Sanskrit philosophy, especially Buddhist philosophy of mind and epistemology



 

 

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   [### Ian J. Martel

 ](/people/ian-martel) <imartel@g.harvard.edu>

Research Interests: Metaphilosophy, History of Philosophy

Ian is primarily interested in 'critical metaphilosophy,' the view that traditional philosophy violates the conditions for its own intelligibility, especially as articulated by Kant, Heidegger, and...



 

 

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   [### Malcolm Morano

 ](/people/malcolm-morano) <mmorano@g.harvard.edu>PhD candidate

 

 

Research Interests: Ethics (especially Metaethics and Moral Psychology); Existentialism; Political Philosophy; and the History of Ethics and Political Philosophy.

My dissertation develops a theory of what the question of "the meaning of life" is a question...



 

 

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   [### Yuan Tian

 ](/people/yuan-tian) <yuantian@g.harvard.edu>PhD candidate

 

 

Research interests: Epistemology, Ethics



 

 

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   [### Lee Ling Ting

 ](/people/lee-ling-ting) <let745@mail.harvard.edu>

Research Interests: Indian Philosophy (Nyāya, Navya-Nyāya, Buddhism), Philosophy of Language



 

 

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