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ABHI RUPARELIA
University of Richmond
Abhi Ruparelia is a rising senior at the University of Richmond, where he is majoring 
in philosophy and leadership studies. While his philosophical interests remain diverse, 
he is particularly fascinated by questions in meta-ethics and moral philosophy, 
especially on normativity, moral responsibility, blame, and free will. On the side, 
he also likes to dabble in political philosophy and has recently started to become 
interested in mathematical logic. For his senior thesis, he is working on a version of 
the paper published in this journal, which he aims to explore and refine in greater 
detail. After graduation, he plans on applying to graduate schools in philosophy.

SHERRY TSENG
University of Pennsylvania
Sherry Tseng is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania studying philosophy, with an 
interest in the philosophy of language and how it intersects with justice, epistemology, 
and aesthetics. Using her philosophical background, she is particularly excited to see 
how it may apply to practical and real-world settings. In her spare time, she’s either 
making playlists on Spotify, exploring the city, or trying to convince her friends to go 
to karaoke with her. 

CHENYU BU
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chenyu Bu is a junior studying Philosophy, Music Composition, and Math at the 
University of Wisconsin-Madison with honors in the liberal arts. Over the course of 
her studies she has developed a strong interest in the intersection of philosophy and 
music—especially in how modernist ideologies in philosophy such as German Idealism 
and Existentialism are reflected and expressed in musical art. She is particularly 
interested in the music of J. S. Bach, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, and Olivier 
Messiaen, and finds Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Sartre captivating and resonant with 
these composers. Apart from composing music and studying philosophy, she is also an 
active ballroom dancer and enjoys choreographing. After college, she plans to pursue 
a Ph. D. in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry as an artist-scholar.



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CAROLINE GILLETTE
Boston College
Caroline Gillette is a rising senior pursuing her Bachelor of Arts at Boston College. 
She is double majoring in Philosophy (in the Pre-Law/International Studies/Public 
Policy Track) and Economics. Her academic interests include political philosophy, 
particularly the philosophy of law and legal authority. She is also interested in Hegel, 
especially dialectical phenomenology. She intends to study law after completing her 
undergraduate studies.

FELIPE DANIEL MONTERO
University of Buenos Aires
Felipe Daniel Montero is currently a student of philosophy at the University of Buenos 
Aires. His primary focus is the philosophy of art, and he is especially interested in 
the relationship between the artistic phenomenon and other essential aspects of 
human existence such as politics, science and religion. With this in mind, he finds 
the traditions of German idealism, Heidegger’s existentialism, and the writings of the 
Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges especially revealing.