Department of Philosophy - University of Missouri-Columbia

  Graduate Student Achievements

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Student Awards | Student Publications | Student Presentations

Publications

Forthcoming

Andrew Moon,

  • "Warrant Does Entail Truth" Synthese

Collin Rice,

  • "Massive Modularity, Content-integration, and Language," Philosophy of Science

2010

Andrew Moon

  • “Gibbons on Epistemic Internalism” Mind.

2009

Joel Dittmer

  • “Raising Revenue for Persons with Disabilities”, Res Publica15 (2009): 33-51.

2008

Justin McBrayer

  • “Rights, Indirect Harms, and the Non-identity Problem”, Bioethics 22 (2008): 299-306.

2007

Justin McBrayer

  • “Fetal Personhood, Vagueness, and Abortion”, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 9 (2007).
  • “Perceiving God: Epistemic Direct Realism and Religious Belief”, Southwest Philosophy Review (2007).
  • “Process Reliabilism, Virtue Reliabilism, and the Value of Knowledge”, The Southern Journal of Philosophy 45 (2007): 289-302.

Ted Poston

  • “Acquaintance and the Problem of the Speckled Hen”, Philosophical Studies 132 (2007): 331-346.

Eric Roark

  • “Aquinas's Unsuccessful Theodicy”, Philosophy and Theology (2007).
  • “Epistemic Justification Without Virtue: An Intermittent Rainman Dilemma for Ernest Sosa's Virtue Condition”, Auslegung (2007).
  • “A Lockean Defense of the Death Penalty: Some Timely Observations”, The Quarterly Journal of Ideology 27 (2007): 1-25.
  • “The Necessarily Moral Aspect of Divine Hiddenness”, Southwest Philosophical Studies (2007).
  • “Nozick's Failed Defense of the Just State”, The Journal of Libertarian Studies 21 (2007): 3-37.

Jonathan Trerise

  • “Liberty and Intellectual Property Rights”, Anthology: Theories of Justice and Intellectual Property Rights (2007).

2006

Jason Glahn

  • “Marching to Zion: Can and Should We Transform International Law with Moral Theory”, George Washington International Law Review 38 (2006): 477-493.

Justin McBrayer

  • “On 'A Molinist-Style Response to Schellenberg,' by Michael Thune”, Southwest Philosophy Review 22 (2006): 71-77.

Eric Roark

  • “Moral Duties and International Justice: Developing Allen Buchanan’s Natural Duty of Justice”, The Review Journal of Political Philosophy 4 (2006): 113-132.

2005

Jason Glahn

  • “Is Hard Positivism Too Hard To Swallow?”, North Dakota Law Review 81 (2005): 499-524.

2004

Jason Berntsen,

  • “Why Physicalists Needn't Bother with Perry's Recent Response to the Knowledge Argument”, Southern Journal of Philosophy 42 (2004): 135-148.

Justin McBrayer,

  • “Evidential Arguments from Evil and the Seeability of Compensating Goods”, Auslegung 27 (2004): 17-22.

Eric Roark,

  • “Tocqueville's Fix: Solving the Problem of Democracy with Enlightened Self-Interest”, Studies in Social and Political Thought 10 (2004): 19-38.
  • “Herbert Spencer's Evolutionary Individualism”, The Quarterly Journal of Ideology 3 (2004): 1-31.

Presentations

2011

Xiaofei Liu,

  • "Does Moral Responsibility Require Choice?" American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division

2010

Chien-Hui (Lynn) Chiu,

  • "Deferential concepts? Not for the Zombie Mary." (Poster) The 14th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto.

Michael Hartsock,

  • "Explaining Absences." American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division

Kok Yong Lee,

  • "On the Distinctive Value of Knowlege." Central States Philosophical Association

Xiaofei Liu,

  • "A Hybrid View of the Ontology of Consent." American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division

Andrew Moon,

  • "The New Evil Demon Problem for Internalism" Justification Revisited Conference; University of Geneva American Philosophical Association, Central Division

Collin Rice,

  • "Massive Modularity, Content-integration, and Language," Philosophy of Science Association "Is Language Really the Content-integrator?" Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP) "Concept Empiricism, Content, and Compositionality," Society for Exact Philosophy

Yasha Rohwer,

  • "Thinking about Coalitions: The Third Man." Philosophy of Biology at Madison Workshop (POBAM) Game-theoretic Models and the Evolution of Prosocial Behavior. Models and Simulations 4

2009

Andrew Moon,

  • "Knowledge Without Evidence", Alabama Philosophical Society

Collin Rice,

  • "Concept Empiricism, Content, and Compositionality," Central States Philosophical Association

Christopher Gadsden

  • “An Alternative Solution to Holton's Puzzle”, Kansas Philosophical Society

Andrew Moon

  • “The New Evil Demon Problem for Internalism”, Berkeley-Stanford-UC/Davis Graduate Conference

Collin Rice

  • “Proxytypes, Content, and Compositionality”, U. Missouri-Saint Louis Metaphysics of Mind Gateway
  • “Proxytypes, Content, and Compositionality” U. of Iowa Graduate Student Conference  

2008

Andrew Moon

  • “Sexual Perversions and Morality”, Society of Christian Philosophers

2007

Scott Davey

  • “The Cartesian Spiral”, Midsouth Philosophy Conference.

Justin McBrayer

  • “The Epistemic Role of Non-Experiential Looks”, Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference.

Kevin McCain

  • “Descartes and the Creation of Eternal Truths”, MidSouth Philosophy Conference.
  • “Descartes and the Creation of Eternal Truths”, New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society 58th Annual Conference.

Shaun McDonough

  • “Reincarnation of the Symmetry Thesis”, Buffalo Graduate Student Conference on the Philosophy of Science.

Eric Roark

  • “Van Inwagen on the Problem of Evil: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, Second Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference.

Alan Tomhave

  • “Cartesian Intuitions, Humean Puzzles and the Buddhist Conception of the Self”, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.
  • “A Lockean Approach to the Fair Consideration of Future Generations”, Midwest Political Science Association.

2006

Scott Davey

  • “Making Sense of Kripkean Necessary A Posteriori”, University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Christopher Haugen

  • “Beebee and Menzies Fight Over Nothing”, University of Texas at San Antonio Philosophy Symposium.

Justin McBrayer

  • “The Epistemic Role of Non-Experiential Looks”, Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference.
  • “Perceiving God”, Southwestern Philosophical Society.
  • “Virtue Reliabilism and the Value of Knowledge”, Central States Philosophical Society.

Kevin McCain

  • “The Virtues of Epistemic Conservatism”, Iowa Philosophical Society Annual Conference.
  • “The Virtues of Epistemic Conservatism”, 4th Biennial Rochester Graduate Epistemology Conference.

Andrew Moon

  • “Skepticism About Warrant Infallibilism”, Central States Philosophical Association.

Garrett Pendergraft

  • “Smoker's Revenge: Buffered Alternatives and Internalized Moral Norms”, Society of Christian Philosophers/University of Notre Dame.

Ted Poston

  • “On Almeida on Moral Dilemmas and Perfect Beings”, The University of Missouri Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference.
  • “Internalism and the Problem of Scatter”, American Philosophical Association.

Eric Roark

  • “Epistemic Justification Without Virtue: A Critique of Ernest Sosa's Virtue Condition”, Iowa Philosophical Society Annual Meeting.
  • “Left-Libertarianism, Self-Ownership, and Equality”, MPSA - Chicago.

Alan Tomhave

  • “Ricoeur and the Becoming Real of Freedom”, After Ricoeur (Oklahoma City University).

Jonathan Trerise

  • “The Type/Token Distinction and Natural Rights Justifications of Intellectual Property Rights”, Athens, Greece.

Jeffrey Benjamin White

  • “Who Killed Socrates? The Plausibility of a Blameworthy Collective Agent”, MPSA - Chicago.

2005

Christopher Haugen

  • “Beebee and Menzies Fight Over Nothing”, Central States Philosophical Association Conference.

Eric Heidenreich

  • “Intimate Connection Rejected”, 57th Annual New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Conference.

Ted Poston

  • “On Lackey on Assertion without Knowledge”, Central States Philosophical Association.

Eric Roark

  • “Benevolent Extortion: Taxation as an Enforcable Obligation”, New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Association Annual Meeting.

Alan Tomhave

  • “Obligations with Respect to Future Generations in Left Libertarianism”, New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society.

Jonathan Trerise

  • “Libertarianism and Intellectual Property Rights”, Brussels, Belgium.

2004

Jason Glahn

  • “On the Scope of Legitimate Self Defense”, Mountain Plains Philosophy Conference.

Matthew Konieczka

  • “The Appeal to the Indescribable”, Theology Forum on Divine Hiddenness (University of Colorado-Boulder).

Ted Poston

  • “Acquaintance and the Problem of the Speckled Hen”, The University of Rochester Graduate Epistemology Conference.
  • “Why Care about Justification? The Value of Internalist Justification”, The Central States Philosophical Association.

Eric Roark

  • “A Defense of Left-Libertarianism that will Satisfy a Real Egalitarian”, The American Liberty and Philosophy Society.

Significant Student Awards

2010

Chien-Hui (Lynn) Chiu,

  • Winner of the Student Poster Competition (Philosophy Category) for he 14th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto: "Deferential concepts? Not for the Zombie Mary."

Andrew Moon,

  • Preparing Future Faculty Mizzou Advantage Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship (one of five awarded) Stipend for one of top three PhD student papers, Justification Revisited conference

2009

Andrew Moon

  • 2009-2010 MU Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship

2007

Eric Roark

  • Jean Hampton Memorial Prize, APA, for best paper in social and political philosophy by junior philosopher that is accepted by the Pacific program. (All other winners have been assistant professors.)