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Conferences & Colloquia

Matthew Lister, "Who is a Refugee?", American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, "New Voices on Human Rights" Panel, New York NY Jan. 2008

Matthew Lister, "Immigration, Association, and the Family", Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA, Nov. 2007

Ryan Muldoon, "Diversity and the Public Sphere" Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship Graduate Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, November 2007.

Paul Franco, "Reframing the Quine/Carnap Debate," 1st European Philosophy of Science Association, Madrid, November 2007.

Michael Nance, "Kant's Argument for the Universality of Radical Evil," Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association Fall Conference, Bloomsburg University, October 2007

 

Douglas Paletta, "Scanlon: The 'New' Redundancy Objection and
Justifiability," University of Calgary Graduate Student Conference,
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, September 2007.

Douglas Paletta, "Can Francis Hutcheson's Moral Sense Theory Explain the Reasons an Agent Should Act Morally?" Spring Ethics Conference, Felician College, Lodi, NJ, March 2007; 4th International Reid Symposium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, September 2007.

Michael Nance, “Butler on Self-Love, Benevolence, and Happiness," Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2007; Societas Ethica Annual
Conference, Leysin, Switzerland, August 2007

 

Mark Navin, "Why ‘Globalizing’ Distributive Justice is not a Rawlsian Project," Twenty-fourth International Social Philosophy Conference, Millersville University, July 2007.

Brian Chance, “Kant’s Aims in the Transcendental Deduction,” Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2007.

Ryan Muldoon, "Correlating Strategies With Neighbors Even When The Goal is Anti-Correlation" 2007 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Exeter, England, July 2007.

Ryan Muldoon, "Social Epistemology and Individual Rationality"
Fourth Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, June 2007.

Brad Berman, "Aquinas on the Modes of Predication: Deriving the Aristotelian Categories," 1st GPMR Workshop on Logic & Semantics, Bonn, June 2007.

Brian Chance, “Kant’s Aims in the Transcendental Deduction,” New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, Yale, New Haven, June 2007.

 

Brad Berman, "Ontological Categories: What They Are and What They Aren't," Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophy Association, Spring Conference, King's College, April 2007.

Brian Chance, Comments on Dyck's "Connubium rationis et experientiae: Christian Wolff on the Relation between Empirical and Rational Psychology," Pacific APA, San Francisco, April, 2007.

Kate Moran, Comment on Klaas Kraay, "Divine Unsurpassability," Mini-Conference on Models of God, Pacific APA, San Francisco, April 2007.

Jason Skirry, "Malebranche's Impure Occasionalism," European Society for Early Modern Philosophy Congress, Essen, Germany, March 2007.

Douglas Paletta, "Can Francis Hutcheson's Moral Sense Theory Explain the Reasons an Agent Should Act Morally?" Spring Ethics Conference, Felician College, Lodi, NJ, March 2007.

Kate Moran, "Can Kant Have an Account of Moral Education?" Pacific Northwest/Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Portland, March 2007.

Brian Chance, "From Belief to Religious Faith: The Place of Hume in Hamann's Socratic Memorabilia," Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Germanic Languages, University of Pennsylvania, January, 2007.

Jason Rheins, "Abstraction and Simple Ideas: A Problem with Lockean Conceptualism," Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Richmond, November 2006; Australasian Association of Philosophy, New Zealand Division Conference, Wellington, NZ, December 2006.

Kate Moran, "Kant on Friendship, Trust, and Moral Judgment," Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Richmond, November 2006.

Jason Skirry, "Malebranche's Impure Occasionalism," Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Richmond, November 2006.

Ryan Muldoon, "How Computer Simulations are like Telescopes and Microscopes," Philosophy of Science Association, 2006 Biennial Meeting, Vancouver, November 2006.

Daniel Muñoz-Hutchinson, "Science vs. Metaphysics: William James on the Mind–Body Problem," European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Oslo, August 2006.

Ryan Muldoon, "Patterns of Segregation and Integration," (with Jean-Paul Carvalho), Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, Beijing, August 2006.

Douglas Paletta, "Clarifying the Notion of Trust," International Society for Research on the Emotions Annual Meeting, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, August 2006 (poster presentation).

Brian Chance, "Missteps and False Starts: Kant and the Rationalist Reception of Hume's Problem of Induction," Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2006.

Marcy Latta, "Kant's Problem Regarding Others," Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2006.

Brad Berman, "Reanalyzing Russell's Analyses," Mind2006, Brighton, UK, June 2006 (poster presentation).

Edward Epsen, "Games with Zero-Knowledge Signaling," Third Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, UC Berkeley, May 2006.

Ryan Muldoon, Comments on Epsen's "Games with Zero-Knowledge Signaling," Third Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, UC - Berkeley, May 2006.

Ryan Muldoon, "The Emergence of Trust: Preventing Conflicts with Covenants," Mind, Brain, and Behavior Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, May 2006.

Krisanna Scheiter, "Lewes and the Physiological-Psychological Problem," Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, York University, May 2006.

Scott Edgar, "De-Psychologizing the Transcendental Deduction," North American Kant Society, Midwest Division, Chicago, IL, November 2005.

Cristina Bicchieri, John Duffy & Ryan Muldoon, "The Need for a Plurality of Fairness Norms: An Evolutionary Account," Computing and Philosophy Conference, Oregon State University, August, 2005, presented by Ryan Muldoon.

Cristina Bicchieri, John Duffy & Ryan Muldoon, "Fairness Plurality: An Evolutionary Account," Social Network Analysis: Advances and Applications Forum, Oxford University, July, 2005, presented by Ryan Muldoon.

Matthew Katz, "Understanding Infant Numerical Competence," Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Wake Forest University, June 2005 (poster presentation).

Scott Edgar, "Paul Natorp's Argument for Anti-Psychologism," Canadian Society for the History and the Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting, London, ON, May 2005.

Cristina Bicchieri, John Duffy & Ryan Muldoon, "Fairness Rules: Signalling, Cheating, and Efficiency," Santa Fe Institute Workshop on Social Dynamics, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April, 2005, presented by Ryan Muldoon.

Ryan Muldoon, "The Validity of Model-Based Arguments," 7th Annual International Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, April, 2005.

Edward Epsen, "Rigid Inscrutable Structures," 1st Annual New York Graduate Student Logic Conference, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, November 2004.

Matthew Lister, "Kitcher's Idea of Well-Ordered Science Applied to the Case of Genetically Modified Crops," University of Delaware/APA conference on Ethics and Life Sciences, October 2004.

Scott Edgar, "The Relationship between Mathematics and Physics in Leibniz," Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting, Halifax, May 2003.


Publications

Jason Rheins, "Getting Straight Plato's Gods: The Philebus on Nous and the World-soul," Triennial Symposium VIII of the International Plato Society; Trinity, Dublin; July 24, 2007.

Uygar Abaci, "Kant's Justified Dismisaal of Artistic Sublimity," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, (forthcoming 2008)

Uygar Abaci, "Kant's Theses on Existence," British Journal for History of Philosophy, (forthcoming 2008)

Brian Chance, review of Wayne Waxman, Kant and the Empiricists: Understanding Understanding, in The Review of Metaphysics (in press).

Edward Epsen, "Games with Zero-Knowledge Signaling," Studia Logica (2007) 86:409-420.

Matthew Lister, "A Rawlsian Argument for Extending Family-Based Immigration Benefits to Same-Sex Couples," The University of Memphis Law Review, Vol. 37 Book 4 (Summer 2007), in press.

Steven Jauss, review of Jonathan Friday, Art and Enlightenment: Scottish Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century, in The American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter 26.2 (2006): 4-5.

Matthew Lister, "Well Ordered Science: The Case of GM Crops," in Ethics and the Life Sciences, ed. by Fred Adams, Philosophy Documentation Center/Journal of Philosophical Research, 2006.

Steven Jauss, "Associationism and Taste Theory in Archibald Alison's Essays," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (2006), 415–428.


Fellowships and Grants, 2007–08

Kate Moran, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Ryan Muldoon, Dean's Summer Fellowship in Philosophy (2007)

Mike Nance, Bacon Fellowship in Philosophy (Summer, 2007)

Mark Navin, Democracy, Citizenship, & Constitutionalism Grad Fellowship

Jason Rheins, Dean's Summer Fellowship in Philosophy (2007)

Jason Skirry, Critical Writing Fellowship


Honors & Awards

Scott Edgar, Dean's Scholar, 2007

Steven Jauss, Dean's Scholar, 2006

Mark Navin, Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, 2005

Jason Rheins, Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, 2005

Scott Edgar, Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student, 2004



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