Founded in 1998, Noēsis is the journal of undergraduate philosophy at the University of Toronto. The students whose work appears in our journals are all undergraduate students, as are the editors who volunteer to select and edit the papers.
Undergraduate Editorial Board
Editors-In-Chief
Chris Zhu
Chris is a fifth-year philosophy specialist with an unrelated side-gig in computer science. Their philosophical interests include phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and the broader continental tradition. Outside of academics, they enjoy drawing, writing, and sipping cold brew.
Salem Kakish
Salem is a fourth-year philosophy specialist. His main philosophical interests lie in legal philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics. More specifically, he is interested in the legitimacy of judicial review and the ethics of property and charity. Outside of philosophy, Salem enjoys competing in mock trial, travel, tennis, and entertaining a small sartorial hobby.
Editors
Luke Krikorian
Luke is a fourth-year philosophy and computer science student with a broad interest in continental philosophy: particularly, critical phenomenological approaches to philosophy of mind and artificial cognition; genealogical approaches to philosophy; and contemporary post-structuralist philosophy. Outside of school, he likes to bike, walk, and watch movies.
Alessandra Castino
Alessandra is a fourth-year physics and philosophy major. Her philosophical interests include political philosophy, metaphysics, and epistemology. Outside of academics, she enjoys reading, baking, and traveling.
Willow Macdonald
Willow is a third-year philosophy specialist. Her main philosophical interests include early modern philosophy, German idealism, and approaches to metaphysics from both the analytic and continental traditions. Outside of philosophy, she enjoys film, cooking, and long walks.
Otan Shafizadeh
Otan Shafizadeh is a 4th year pursuing a major in philosophy and a minor in environmental studies and French language. His primary philosophical interests include Marxism, social philosophy, the history of philosophy, Wittgenstein, and political philosophy. Outside of philosophy, his interests include learning about Near Eastern history and listening to music.
Henry Paluch
Henry is a third-year Philosophy and Ethics, Society, and Law double major. His areas of interest include political philosophy, philosophy of law, moral philosophy, and philosophy of social science. Outside of philosophy, Henry is a bagpiper who competes individually and with a band.
Chi Zhang
Chi is a fourth-year philosophy specialist with a minor in German studies. Her philosophical focus includes epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. She is especially interested in issues about disagreement. Outside of academics, Chi enjoys classical music, chess, ice skating, and visiting museums and galleries.
Anya Berube Boutin
Anya is a fourth-year student, majoring in Ethics, Society and Law, with a double minor in Philosophy and Psychology. Her primary philosophical interests include ethics (broadly defined), metaethics, philosophy of mind and legal philosophy. She is also interested in the intersection between moral philosophy and moral psychology particularly as it relates to understanding moral judgement and attributions of responsibility. Outside of philosophy, Anya is a lover of creative writing and cooking elaborate meals.
Alexander Marcu
Alex is a 5th year Philosophy Specialist. His primary interests are in analytic metaphysics, logic, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Especially contemporary debates around the roles that fundamentality, emergence, and multi-level conceptions of reality play in our scientific theories. He is also interested in the debate between causal and evidential decision theories and related puzzles (if only to improve his poker game). Outside of philosophy Alex enjoys Scotch, Bourbon, and Gin.