Forthcoming

Travis Holmes

• Ariew, Andre and Holmes, Travis.  “Statistical Autonomous Explanations and the Patterns of Nature: A Modified Account” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
• Holmes, Travis. “Cognitive Extra-Mathematical Explanations” Synthese 200 (2): 1-23
• Holmes, Travis. “How Revealed Preference Theory Can Be Explanatory” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 91(C): 20-27, 2022.
• Holmes, Travis. “Reckoning with Continuum Idealizations: Some Lessons from Soil Hydrology” Philosophy of Science 89(2): 319-322, 2022.

Ryan Kulesa

• Kulesa, Ryan. “Toward a Medical Standard of Care: Why Medical Professionals Can Refuse to Prescribe Puberty Blockers.” The New Bioethics (forthcoming).
• Kulesa, Ryan. “Kantian Conscientious Objection: A reply to Kennette.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.

2022

Gesiel da Silva

• Ariew, A., & da Silva, G. B.(2022). Vitalism. In: James Mattingly (ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, pp. 940-944.

Ryan Kulesa

• Kulesa, Ryan. 2022. “A Defense of Conscientious Objection: Why Health is Integral to the Permissibility of Medical Refusals.” Bioethics 36(1): 54-62. 

2021

Gesiel da Silva

• Da Silva, G. B. (2021). The de jure objection against belief in miracles. Manuscrito, v. 44, n. 4, pp. 434-452, Oct.-Dec. 2021. DOI: 10.1590/0100-6045.2021.V44N4.GS.

Travis Holmes

• Holmes, Travis. “Cognitive Dynamical Models as Minimal Models” Synthese (1): 2353-2373.

• Holmes, Travis. “Distinctively Mathematical Explanation and the Problem of Directionality: A Quasi-Erotetic Solution.”  Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 87 (C): 13-21

• Holmes, Travis. “Unifying Statistically Autonomous and Mathematical Explanations.” Biology and Philosophy 36 (3): 1-22.

• Holmes, Travis and Westgren, Randall E. “Entrepreneurial Beliefs and Agency under Knightian Uncertainty” Philosophy of Management 21(2): 199-217.

Ryan Kulesa

• Kulesa, Ryan. 2021. “Preemption and a Counterfactual Analysis of Divine Causation.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 89(2): 125-134.

 

2020

Gesiel da Silva

• Da Silva, G. B. & Bertato, F. M. (2020). Formal Theodicy: Religious Determinism and the Logical Problem of Evil. Edukacja Filozoficzna, 70/2020, p. 93-119. DOI: 10.14394/edufil.2020.0018.
• Polli, M. G. & Da Silva, G. B. (2020). Crenças religiosas e a autoridade da ciência: uma análise interdisciplinar no contexto da pandemia por COVID-19. Thomas Project, n. 4, 2/2020, pp. 121-135.

2019

Alex Howe

• "Why Kant Animals Have Rights?" Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 137-142)

Gesiel da Silva

• Da Silva, G. B. & Bertato, F. M. (2019). A first-order modal theodicy: God, evil, and religious determinism. South American Journal of Logic, v. 5, p. 49-80.

2017

Alex Howe

• "Regaining Traction on the Problem of Punishment," Res Publica (Volume 25, Issue 2, pp 261-272)

2016

Alex Howe

• "'HOT’ So Fast: Revisiting Rowlands’ Critique of Higher-Order Theories of Mental Unity," Animal Sentience,  vol. 1, no. 10.

Dustin Nelson

• "Defending an Expressivist Account of Reasons," Southwest Philosophy Review, 32 (1).

2014

Wenwen Fan

• "Second-Personal Reasons and Moral Obligations," Journal of Value Inquiry

2012

Collin Rice

• "Concept Empiricism, Content, and Compositionality," Philosophical Studies

Xiaofei Liu

• "A Robust Defense of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing," Utilitas

2011

Andrew Moon

• "Warrant Does Entail Truth," Synthese

Collin Rice

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

Collin Rice and Joshua Smart

• "Interdisciplinary Modelling: A Case Study of Evolutionary Economics," Biology and Philosophy

2010

Andrew Moon

• “Gibbons on Epistemic Internalism,” Mind

2009

Joel Dittmer

• “Raising Revenue for Persons with Disabilities,” Res Publica

2008

Justin McBrayer

• “Rights, Indirect Harms, and the Non-identity Problem,” Bioethics

2007

Justin McBrayer

• “Fetal Personhood, Vagueness, and Abortion,” Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics
• “Perceiving God: Epistemic Direct Realism and Religious Belief,” Southwest Philosophy Review
• “Process Reliabilism, Virtue Reliabilism, and the Value of Knowledge,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy

Ted Poston

• “Acquaintance and the Problem of the Speckled Hen,” Philosophical Studies 132

Eric Roark

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

Jonathan Trerise

• “Liberty and Intellectual Property Rights,” Anthology: Theories of Justice and Intellectual Property Rights

2006

Jason Glahn

• “Marching to Zion: Can and Should We Transform International Law with Moral Theory,” George Washington International Law Review

Justin McBrayer

• “On 'A Molinist-Style Response to Schellenberg,' by Michael Thune,” Southwest Philosophy Review

Eric Roark

• “Moral Duties and International Justice: Developing Allen Buchanan’s Natural Duty of Justice,” The Review Journal of Political Philosophy

2005

Jason Glahn

• “Is Hard Positivism Too Hard To Swallow?” North Dakota Law Review

2004

Jason Berntsen

• “Why Physicalists Needn't Bother with Perry's Recent Response to the Knowledge Argument,” Southern Journal of Philosophy

Justin McBrayer

• “Evidential Arguments from Evil and the Seeability of Compensating Goods,” Auslegung

Eric Roark

• “Tocqueville's Fix: Solving the Problem of Democracy with Enlightened Self-Interest,” Studies in Social and Political Thought
• “Herbert Spencer's Evolutionary Individualism,” The Quarterly Journal of Ideology

2019

Jon Marc Asper

• “A Defense of Parity: Value Intransitivity Without a Money Pump.” Eastern APA; Jan 2019.
• “Subjective Values should be Sharp.” Formal Ethics 2019; Ghent University; Jun 2019. (Funded by the John D. Bies International Travel Scholarship, $1,500).

2018

Jon Marc Asper

• “A Defense of Parity: Value Intransitivity Without a Money Pump.” Midsouth Philosophy Conference; Mar 2018.
• “A Defense of Parity: Value Intransitivity Without a Money Pump.” Boundaries and Limits: U of Alberta Philosophy Grad/Postgrad Conference; Apr 2018.

2017

Jon Marc Asper

• “Against the Trichotomy Thesis,” University of Iowa Graduate Philosophy Conference

Jon Burmeister

• “Epistemic Value, Pointless Truths, and the Cognitive Ideal,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference
• “Searching for the Reason why True Belief is Epistemically Valuable,” Central States Philosophy Association

Keith Harris

• “What's Epistemically Wrong with Conspiracy Theorists?” Harms and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice

Tim Tung-Ying Wu

• “Equilibrium and Transitivity in Causal Decision Theory," APA Eastern Division

2016

Jon Burmeister

• “Defending the Possibility of True Belief's Intrinsic Value,” Central States Philosophical Association
• “Truth Might be Intrinsically Valuable,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference

Keith Harris

• “Toward Functionalism About Collective Belief,” APA Pacific Division

Richard Lauer

• “Acceptance, Belief, and the Factivity of Understanding,” 35th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Philosophical Society
• “Explanation for the Cognitively Bounded: Psychology and the Pragmatics of Explanation,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference
• “Predictive Success and Non-Individualist Models in Social Science,” Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable

Joshua Smart

• “Dialecticism about Philosophical Appeals to Intuition,” APA Pacific Division
• “Objective Own-Standards Rational Belief,” APA Eastern Division

Tim Tung-Ying Wu

• “Anomalous Refutation of Idealism,” APA Eastern Division
• “Rationality, Coherence, and the Incoherence Argument,” APA Central Division

2015

Jon Burmeister

• “The Cognitive Ideal Argument and why it is Ultimately Unsuccessful," The University of Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference
• “Why Arguing for the Value of Truth by Using the Cognitive Ideal of Omniscience is Misguided,” Central States Philosophy Association

Wesley Chambers

• “Retributivism and the Proportionality Problem,” Talbot Philosophical Society Spring Conference
• “A Dilemma for Adaptive Invariantism,” University of Iowa Graduate Student Conference

Lynn Chiu

• “An Ecological Challenge Against the Propensity Interpretation of Fitness,” APA Pacific Division

Stephanie Hull

• “Making Sense of Mackie: Metaethical Constructivism and First-Order Moral Theory,” Iowa Philosophical Society

Kenny Shields

• "Quasi-Realism and the Problem of the Schizoid Attitude," APA Central Division

Joshua Smart

• “Dialecticism about Philosophical Appeals to Intuition,” Central States Philosophical Association
• “Serious Problems and Radical Solutions for Own-Standards Epistemic Rationality,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference

2014

Lynn Chiu

• “The Propensity Interpretation of Fitness and the Modern Synthesis,” European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Vienna, Austria

Wenwen Fan

• "The Evidential Support for Theory Theory versus Interactive Theory," Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Garrett Marks-Wilt

• "The Gendered Division of Moral Labor: Gender-Asymmetric Ascriptions of Moral Status," Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
• "The Racial Divisions of Moral Labor," Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Conference

Dustin Nelson

• "Defending an Expressivist Account of Reasons," APA Pacific Division

Joshua Smart

• “Might Mackie and Moses Both Be Right: The Very Idea of Theistic Moral Nihilism,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference

Tim Wu

• "Defending the Labor-Mixing Theory of Property," Inteernational Social Philosophy Conference
• "Epistemic Uniqueness, Permissiveness, and Peer Disagreement," Society for Exact Philosophy

2013

Lynn Chiu

• "Niche Construction and the Insides and Outsides of the Modern Synthesis," ISHPSSB 2013

E. Alexander Howe

• "Defending Complexity: A Samkhya Approach to the Hard Problem," Toward a Science of Consciousness

Garrett Marks-Wilt

• "A Social-Cognitive Account of Gendered Mind Perception and the Sexual Division of Moral Labor," Society for Personality and Social Psychology

2012

Crystal Allen

• "Individual Rights and the Restrictive Force of Just Cause: A Response to Jeff McMahan," APA Pacific Division Meeting

Lynn Chiu

• "Finding a Niche in Systems Biology," ISHPSSB 2012

Collin Rice

• "Using Optimality Models to Explain Evolutionary Phenomena," APA Pacific Division

Collin Rice and Yasha Rohwer

• "Abstract Pattern Idealization and Explanatory Models," APA Central Division

Kenneth Shields

• "Motivational Internalism and Experimental Philosophy," Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Conference

Joshua Smart

• “Dialecticism, or How to Do Philosophy with Personal Intuitions,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference

2011

Xiaofei Liu

• "Does Moral Responsibility Require Choice?" APA Pacific Division

Yasha Rohwer

• "Modeling the Evolution of Human Intelligence: Our Lousy Iterated Theory of Mind," APA Eastern Division

Joshua Smart

• “Beg, Borrow, Steal: Evolutionary Economics as Model Borrowing,” Conference for the International Society of the History and Philosophy of Social Sciences and Biology

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." APA Pacific Division

Kok Yong Lee

• "On the Distinctive Value of Knowledge." 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.

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.)