Graduate Student Achievements
Student Publications
Student Presentations
Student Awards
Publications
Forthcoming
Justin McBrayer, “Rights, Indirect Harms, and the Non-identity Problem”, Bioethics (forthcoming).
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
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 External Student Awards
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.)
This list is a work in progress, if you are aware of any changes that need to be made, please contact Peter Vallentyne or Jonni Paxton.