Graduate Student Achievements
2026
Se Yong Bae
- Bae, S.Y. (2026). What and how emotions represent: A constructionist predictive processing account. Erkenntnis, 91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-026-01070-7
Gesiel da Silva
- Bertato, F.M., & da Silva, G.B. (2026). Can God be all-good, all-knowing, and all-controlling? A new solution to the logical problem of evil. Logica Universalis, 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-026-00415-8
- da Silva, G.B. (2026). Spacetime and perception: A special relativistic defense of naïve realism. Synthese, 207(5), 186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-026-05516-x
Temitope Falokun
- Jemiluyi, O., & Falokun, T. (2026). Performing the trenches and (re)branding poverty: Subaltern visuality, performativity, and postcolonial politics in Nigerian popular media. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 21(1), 44-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2025.2611118
Nathaniel Stagg
- Stagg, N. (2026). Be fruitful, but do not multiply. Faith and Philosophy, 42(1), 59-79. https://doi.org/10.37977/faithphil.2026.42.1.4
2025
Se Yong Bae
- Bae, S. Y. (2025). A constructionist predictive processing account of anxiety. Synthese, 206(5), 233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05330-x
Christian Culak
- Culak, C. (2025). The suberogatory as bad character. Philosophia, 53(2), 583-593. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-025-00868-z
Gesiel da Silva
- da Silva, Gesiel (2025). Epistemologia reformada: Um panorama. In A. C. Portugal, F. Bertato & N. C. Salvatore (Eds.), Compêndio de Filosofia Analítica da Religião ( pp. 409-446). Recriar.
Travis Holmes
- Holmes, T. & Ariew, A. I. (2025). Statistical autonomous explanations and the patterns of nature: A modified account. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 76(3), 783-804. https://doi.org/10.1086/720804
Hamid Nourbakshi
- Cowan, N., Ahmed, N. I., Bao, C., Cissne, M. N., Yee-Flores, R. D., Gutierrez, R. M., Hayse, B., Musich, M. L., Nourbakhshi, H., Nuraini, N., Schroeder, E. E., Sfeir, N., Sparrow, E., & Superbia-Guimarães, L. (2025). Theories of consciousness from the perspective of an embedded processes view. Psychological Review, 132(1), 76-106. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000510
- Nourbakhshi, Hamid (2025). God in the gap: Rethinking divine gender and moving toward reconciliation. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 98(1-2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-025-09949-1
2024
Gesiel da Silva
- da Silva, G. (2024). Are Plantinga's theodicy and defense incompatible? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 95(3), 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-024-09919-z
Ryan Kulesa
- Kulesa, R., & Giubilini, A. (2024). Conscientious refusal or conscientious provision: We can't have both. Bioethics, 38(5), 445-451. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13285
- Kulesa, R. (2024). The doing/allowing distinction in the divine context. Religious Studies, 60(2), 302–312. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412523000550
Xihe Ouyang
- Ouyang, X. (2024). Intuition and Kagan’s hierarchicalism. Utilitas, 36(3), 265-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820824000165
Chuanke Wei
- Wei, C. (2024). Natural selection, mechanism and phenomenon. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2024.2336269
2023
Fernando Alvear
- Robbins, P., & Alvear, F. (2023). Deformative Experience: Explaining the Effects of Adversity on Moral Evaluation. Social Cognition, 41(5), 415–446. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2023.41.5.415
Gesiel da Silva
- Ariew, A., & da Silva, G. (2023). Vitalism. In J.M. Mattingly (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (Vol. 2, pp. 941-944). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071872383
Ryan Kulesa
- Kulesa, R. (2023). The counterfactual argument against abortion. Utilitas, 35(3), 218–228. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820823000092
- Kulesa, R. (2023). Kantian conscientious objection: A reply to Kennett. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 32(3), 450–453. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180122000287
- Kulesa, R. (2023). Toward a standard of medical care: Why medical professionals can refuse to prescribe puberty blockers. The New Bioethics, 29(2), 139–155. https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2022.2137906
Hamid Nourbakshi
- Nourbakhshi, Hamid (2023). The role of imagination and recollection in the method of phenomenal contrast. Theoria, 89(5), 710-733. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12489
Naveed Mustahid Rahman
- Sabera T, & Rahman, N. M. (2023). Justice as fairness and the Constitution of Bangladesh. In: R. Hoque & R. Chowdhury (Eds.), A History of the Constitution of Bangladesh (pp. 209–223). Routledge.
- Rahman, N. M. (2023). Constitutional change in Bangladesh: Underscoring the need for public participation in the process. In: M. E. Haque, & R. Chowdhuri (Eds.), Constitutional Law of Bangladesh (pp. 103–118). Springer.
Sukhvinder Shahi
- Chakrabarty, U., Feiertag, R., McCallion, A. M., McNiff, B., Prinz, J., Reynolds, M., Shahi, Sukhvinder... Yamamoto, A. (2023). Adaptive preferences: An empirical investigation of feminist perspectives. In H. Viciana, A. Gaitán, F. Aguiar (Eds.), Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy (pp. 310-330). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003301424
2022
Travis Holmes
- Holmes, T. (2022). Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations. Synthese, 200(2), 157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03643-9
- Holmes, T. (2022). How revealed preference theory can be explanatory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 91(C),20-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.10.015
- Holmes, T. (2022). Reckoning with continuum idealizations: Some lessons from soil hydrology. Philosophy of Science, 89(2), 319-336. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2021.30
- Westgren, R.E., & Holmes, T.L. (2022). Entrepreneurial beliefs and agency under Knightian uncertainty. Philosophy of Management, 21(2), 199-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-021-00183-z
Ryan Kulesa
- Kulesa, R. (2022). A defense of conscientious objection: Why health is integral to the permissibility of medical refusals. Bioethics, 36(1), 54–62. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12956
2021
Jon Marc Asper
- Asper, J.M. (2021). Subjective values should be sharp. Synthese, 198(7), 6025-6043. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02448-7
Gesiel da Silva
- da Silva, Gesiel. (2021). The de jure objection against belief in miracles. Manuscrito, 44(4), 434-452. https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2021.V44N4.GS
Travis Holmes
- Holmes, T. (2021). Cognitive dynamical models as minimal models. Synthese, 199(1), 2353-2373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02888-6
- Holmes, T. L. (2021). 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.02.005
- Holmes, T. L. (2021). Unifying statistically autonomous and mathematical explanations. Biology and Philosophy, 36(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-021-09808-z
Ryan Kulesa
- Kulesa, R. (2020). The consequence of evil: An essay concerning natural theodicy. South African Journal of Philosophy, 39(1), 13–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2019.1706380
2020
Gesiel da Silva
- Da Silva, Gesiel B. & Bertato, Fábio (2020). Formal theodicy: Religious determinism and the logical problem of evil. Edukacja Filozoficzna, 70, 93-119. https://doi.org/10.14394/edufil.2020.0018
- Polli, Marília Giammarco; Da Silva, Gesiel Borges. (2020). Crenças religiosas e a autoridade da ciência: Uma análise interdisciplinar no contexto da pandemia por COVID-19. Thomas Project, 4(2), 121-135. http://www.thomasproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Tp4_7_Marilia-Gianmarco-Polli_Gesiel-Borges-da-Silva_Crenc%CC%A7as-religiosas-e-a-autoridade-da-cie%CC%82ncia.pdf
Tung-Ying Wu
- Wu, T. Y. (2020). Mereological dominance and Simpson’s Paradox. Philosophia, 48(1), 391-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00084-6
2019
Jon Burmeister
- Burmeister, J. K. (2019). Book Review: The Actual and the Rational: Hegel and Objective Spirit. By Jean-François Kervégan, translated by Daniela Ginsburg and Martin Shuster. International Philosophical Quarterly, 59(2), 245-248. https://doi.org/10.5840/ipq2019592129
Alex Howe
- Howe, A. (2019). Regaining traction on the problem of punishment: A critique of David Boonin’s Use of the Entailment Test. Res Publica, 25(2), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-017-9384-z
- Howe, A. (2019). Why Kant animals have rights? Journal of Animal Ethics, 9(2), 137-142. https://doi.org/10.5406/janimalethics.9.2.0137
Gesiel da Silva
- da Silva, Gesiel Borges & Bertato, Fábio (2019). A first-order modal theodicy: God, evil, and religious determinism. South American Journal of Logic, 5(1), 49-80. https://www.sa-logic.org/sajl-v5-i1/04-da%20Silva-%20Bertato-SAJL.pdf
Keith Raymond Harris
- Harris, K. (2019). Philosophical method and the limits of empirical science. Metascience, 28(1), 41-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0370-7
Isaac Wagner
- Wagner, I. A. (2020). The ethics of war: Essays [Book Review]. In S. Bazargan-Forward & S. C. Rickless (Eds.), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23(1), 265-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-019-10041-7
2018
Jon Burmeister
- Burmeister, J. K. (2018). We can automate work: But can we automate meaning? The Philosophers' Magazine, 81, 70-77. https://doi.org/10.5840/tpm20188151
Keith Raymond Harris
- Harris, K. (2018). What’s epistemically wrong with conspiracy theorising? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 84, 235-257. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246118000619
Dustin Nelson
- Nelson, D. (2018). We should not take human rights so seriously. Southwest Philosophy Review, 34(1):77-84. https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview20183418
Phillip Zema
- Zema, P. (2018). Should student-athletes be paid? Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 13(2), 198-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2018.1465112
2017
Richard Lauer
- Lauer, R. (2017). Predictive success and non-individualist models in social science. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 47(2), 145-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393116672834
2016
Lynn Chiu
- Chiu, L., & Eberl, G. (2016). Microorganisms as scaffolds of host individuality: An eco-immunity account of the holobiont. Biology & Philosophy, 31, 819-837. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-016-9552-0
Alex Howe
- Howe, Alex (2016) “HOT” so fast. Animal Sentience, 10(15). https://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1170
Dustin Nelson
- Nelson, D. (2016). Defending an expressivist account of reasons. Southwest Philosophy Review, 32(1), 207-213. https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview201632121
- Nelson, D. (2016). Good athlete, good person?: Commentary on Mary Gwin’s “Personal Worth and Sport”. Southwest Philosophy Review, 32(2), 69-71. https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview201632239
Kenneth Shields
- Shields, K. (2016). Moral internalism, amoralist skepticism and the factivity effect. Philosophical Psychology, 29(8), 1095–1111. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2016.1234596
Jake Wright
- Wright, J. (2016). Restricting mobile device use in introductory philosophy classrooms. Teaching Philosophy, 39(3), 307-327. https://doi.org/10.5840/teachphil20168552
2015
Kok Yong Lee
- Lee, K.Y. (2015). Causal models and the ambiguity of counterfactuals. In: W. van der Hoek, W. Holliday, & W. F. Wang (Eds.) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 9394). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48561-3_18
2014
Lynn Chiu
- Chiu, L., & Gilbert, S.F. (2015). The Birth of the holobiont: Multi-species birthing through mutual scaffolding and niche construction. Biosemiotics, 8(2), 191-210. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-015-9232-5
Wenwen Fan
- Fan, W. (2014). Second-personal reasons and moral obligations. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 48(1), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-013-9404-y
Brian Montgomery
- Montgomery, B. (2014). In defense of assertion. Philosophical Studies, 171(2), 313-326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-013-0273-9
Collin Rice
- Rice, C. (2013). Concept empiricism, content, and compositionality. Philosophical Studies, 162(3), 567-583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9782-6
Yasha Rohwer and Collin Rice
- Rohwer, Y., & Rice, C. (2013). Hypothetical pattern idealization and explanatory models. Philosophy of Science, 80(3), 334-355. https://doi.org/10.1086/671399
Yasha Rohwer
- Rohwer, Y., & Westgren, R. (2013). Are ethics and efficiency locked in antithesis? In H.S. James, Jr. (Ed.) The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol. 20 (pp. 37-53). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6274-9_3
2012
Xiaofei Liu
- Liu, X. (2012). A robust defence of the doctrine of doing and allowing. Utilitas, 24(1), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820811000380
Andrew Moon
- Moon, A. (2012). Knowing without evidence. Mind, 121(482), 309-331, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzs048
- Moon, A. (2012). Warrant does entail truth. Synthese, 184(3), 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-010-9815-2
Collin Rice
- Rice, C. (2012). Optimality explanations: a plea for an alternative approach. Biology & Philosophy, 27(5), 685-703 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-012-9322-6
2011
Collin Rice
- Rice, C. (2011). Massive modularity, content integration, and language. Philosophy of Science, 78(5), 800-812. https://doi.org/10.1086/662259
Collin Rice and Joshua Smart
- Rice, C., & Smart, J. (2011). Interdisciplinary modeling: a case study of evolutionary economics. Biology & Philosophy, 26(5), 655-675 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-011-9274-2
Ashton Sperry-Taylor
- Sperry-Taylor, A. T. (2011). Bounded rationality in the Centipede Game. Episteme, 8(3), 262
2010
Andrew Moon
- “Moon, A. (2010). Gibbons on epistemic internalism. Mind, 119(473), 143-151. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40865210
2009
Joel Dittmer
- Dittmer, J. (2009). Raising revenue for persons with disabilities. Res Publica, 15(1), 33–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-008-9061-3
Ronald Novy
- Novy, R. (2009). What is it like to be a Batman? The Philosophers' Magazine, 44(1), 97-100. https://doi.org/10.5840/tpm200944119
2008
Justin McBrayer
- McBrayer, J. P. (2008). Rights, indirect harms and the non-identity problem. Bioethics, 22(6), 299-306. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2007.00617.x
Andrew Moon
- Moon, Andrew (2008). Against Rea on presentism and fatalism. Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, 15, 159-166. https://doi.org/10.5840/wcp22200815892
2007
Justin McBrayer
- McBrayer, J. P. (2007). Perceiving God: Epistemic direct realism and religious belief. Southwest Philosophy Review, 23(1), 17-25. https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview20072312
- McBrayer, J.P. (2007), Process reliabilism, Virtue reliabilism, and the value of knowledge. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 45(2): 289-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-6962.2007.tb00053.x
Ted Poston
- Poston, T. (2007). Acquaintance and the problem of the speckled hen. Philosophical Studies, 132(2), 331-346 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-005-2221-9
- Poston, T., & Dougherty, T. (2007). Divine hiddenness and the nature of belief. Religious Studies, 43(2), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412507008943
Eric Roark
- Roark, E. (2007). Epistemic justification without virtue: An intermittent rainman dilemma for Ernest Sosa’s virtue condition. Auslegung: Journal of Philosophy, 29(1), 25-43. https://doi.org/10.17161/ajp.1808.9673
- Roark, E. (2007). Nozick’s failed defense of the just state. Journal of Libertarian Studies, 21(1), 5-39. https://cdn.mises.org/21_1_2.pdf
Jonathan Trerise
- Trerise, J. (2008). Liberty and the rejection of strong intellectual property rights. In A. Grosseries, A. Marciano, & A. Strowel (Eds.), Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice (pp. 122-140).
Yasha Rohwer
- Rohwer, Y. (2007). Hierarchy maintenance, coalition formation, and the origins of altruistic punishment. Philosophy of Science, 74(5), 802-812. https://doi.org/10.1086/525628
2006
Jason Glahn
- Glahn, J. C. (2006). Is hard positivism too hard to swallow? North Dakota Law Review, 3, 81. https://ssrn.com/abstract=685003
- Glahn, J. C. (2006). Marching to Zion: Can (and should) we transform international law with moral theory? George Washington International Law Review, 38. https://ssrn.com/abstract=830067
Justin McBrayer
- McBrayer, J. P. (2006) ‘On “A Molinist-style response to Schellenberg” by Michael Thune’, Southwest Philosophy Review, 22(2), 71–76. https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview200622229
Eric Roark
- Roark, E. (2006). Aquinas’s unsuccessful theodicy. Philosophy and Theology, 18(2), 247-256. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol200618212
- Roark, E. (2006). Moral duties and international justice: Developing Allen Buchanan's natural duty of justice. Review Journal of Political Philosophy, 4, 113-132.
2005
2004
Jason Berntsen
- Berntsen, J. (2004). Why physicalists needn't bother with Perry's recent response to the knowledge argument. Southern Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2041-6962.2004.TB00993.X
Justin McBrayer
- McBrayer, J. (2004). Evidential arguments from evil and the "seeability" of compensating goods. Auslegung: Journal of Philosophy, 27(1), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.17161/auslegung.v27i1.12647
Eric Roark
- Roark, E. (2004). Tocqueville's fix: Solving the riddle of democracy with enlightened self-interest. Studies in Social and Political Thought, 10, 19-38.
- Roark, E. (2004). Herbert Spencer's evolutionary individualism. Quarterly Journal of Ideology, 27(3/4), 1-31.
2025
Nathaniel Stagg
- American Philosophical Association, January, 2025, "How to Stop Worrying and Interpret AI Art"
2023
Nathaniel Stagg
- Iowa Graduate Philosophy Society, March 25th, 2023, "Kripke's Proof is Neither Two-Dimensional nor Ad Hominem: A Reply to Chalmers and Papineau"
- The Society of Christian Bioethicists, October 21st, 2023, "Be Fruitful, but Do Not Multiply"
Hamid Nourbakshi
- Dastmalchi M; Nourbakhshi H; Ansari M; User Experience and Interaction Design in Architecture's New Media; Forthcoming in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Arab Society for Computation in Architecture (ASCAAD 2023); Amman, Jordan, Nov, 9, 2023.
Tianqin Ren
- Detaching Normativity from Evolutionary Functions. PSA 2023 Around the World (Online) 2023.11.5-17.
- Units of Selection Question under the Statisticalist View. ISHPSSB 2023 (Toronto) 2023.7.9-15.
- Luck, Malfunction and Warranted Belief from an Evolutionary Perspective. The 1st Beijing International Graduate Conference in Analytic Philosophy (Online) 2023.1.7-8.
Ryan Kulesa
- “Conscientious Objection or Conscientious Provision: We can’t have both.” Presented at the Society for Christian Bioethicists 2023 Annual Conference, Virtual, October 20th-21st, 2023.
- “Revisiting Objections to the Moral Relevance of Potential Personhood.” Presented at the Work in Progress Seminar, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford, October 11th, 2023.
- “Counterfactual Persons and the Wrongness of Abortion.” Presented at the: Great Lakes Philosophy Conference, Siena Heights University, April 14th-16th, 2023.
- South Carolina Society for Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Beaufort, March 31st-April 1st, 2023.
- Conference on Medicine and Religion, Ohio State University, OH, March 12th-14th, 2023.
- Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, Chadron State College, February 17th-19th, 2023.
Zeinab Rabii
- "How to Reconcile the Knowledge Thesis with Self-Deception", Colloquium for presentation at the 2023 APA Central Division meeting
Fransisco Assis
- Theism and Best Explanations Arguments. LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion. Capstone Conference. University of Houston. November, 2023.
Gesiel Da Silva
- Da Silva, G. B. (2023). Naive realism, special relativity, and the time lag objection. Metalogicon Seminar, Porto Alegre, Brazil (online)
- Da Silva, G. B. (2022). Plantinga’s theodicy and defense are not incompatible. Accepted for oral presentation at the 2022 Midwest Conference for the Society of Christian Philosophers (not attended for financial reasons).
- Da Silva, G. B. (2022). A prudential argument against scientism. Oral presentation: Graduate Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, Columbia.
- Da Silva, G. B. (2022). Religious epistemology and interrogative attitudes. Oral presentation: Graduate Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Sukhvinder Shahi
- “Bites and Scratches: The Paradox of Tragedy and Rasa” (with Karan Dhingra) at the Rocky Mountain Division, American Society of Aesthetics, Santa Fe, NM, July 2023
- “Aesthetic Commodification of Memorials: The Case of a Post-colonial monument”
- American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA, March 2023
- Winter Graduate Research Conference, Institute for Humane Studies (online), February 2023
2022
Sukhvinder Shahi
“On the Wrongness of caste-based discrimination”, Invited lecture to the Masters’ students at the fundamental research center CEPDISC, The Center for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination, Aarhus University BSS., Nov 2022
“Killing for Art'' (with Jesse Prinz), 80th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Portland, OR, November 2022
Ryan Kulesa
- Georgia Philosophical Society: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy, Athens, GA, December 1st-2nd, 2022.
- “God, Suffering, and the Irrelevance of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing.” Presented at Problem of Evil Graduate Conference, Saint Louis University, October 7th-8th, 2022.
- “Truthmakers and Causal Models.” Presented at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, The University of Waikato, June 28th-July 7th, 2022.
- “Must Conscientious Objectors Refer?” Presented at the: 6th Annual Social, Political, Ethics, and Legal Philosophy Graduate Conference, University of Binghamton, November 12th-13th, 2022 9th Annual Health Care Ethics Research Conference, Saint Louis University, April 29th, 2022.
- “Counterfactual Dependence is Sufficient for Divine Causation.” Presented at the: Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, Denver, November 15th-17th, 2022 Biennial Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion: God, Time, and Change, Oriel College, Oxford, September 3rd-5th, 2022.
- New Ways of Doing Philosophy of Religion: Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives, University of Birmingham, March 29th-30th 2022.
- North Carolina Philosophical Society, Converse University, March 25th-March 26th 2022. Paper selected for best graduate student paper award.
- “Toward a Medical Standard of Care: Why Pediatric Residents can Refuse to Prescribe Hormone Therapy.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, February 24th-27th 2022.
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.
2025
Temitope Falokun
- Second Place Award, Humanities, GPC Research & Creative Activities Forum (RCAF), University of Missouri
2023
Rajiv Gupta
- Recipient of the prestigious Faculty grant from Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle & BioPhysics excellence cluster ORIGINS (Technische Universitat, Munchen) to participate in the MIAPbP program
- “The Present and Future of Heavy Flavour and Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy” from May 08-Jun 02. 2023.
Ryan Kulesa
- Kline Fellowship, University of Missouri, Columbia, $1000 2023-2024 Academic Year
- Graduate Professional Council Travel Award, $300 February 2023
Tianqin Ren
- ISHPSSB 2023 Travel Fund, $1000
Zeinab Rabii
- Kline Funding, Department of philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2023
- Graduate Student Travel Stipend, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2023
- Professional Presentation Travel Scholarships, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2023
Fransisco Assis
- LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion. Prize for Latin American students accepted to graduate programs in Philosophy in the US.
- Travel Award to attend and present at the LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion. Capstone Conference. University of Houston. November 2023.
Gesiel Da Silva
- Kline Fellowship 2023
- G. Ellsworth Huggins Fellowship 2021-2026
Sukhvinder Shahi
- Center for Philosophical Studies (CPS) Best Graduate Essay Prize Award in Philosophy, American Society of Aesthetics 2023
- Irene H. Chayes Travel Grant, American Society of Aesthetics Summer 2023, Fall 2022 & Spring 2023
2022
Rajiv Gupta
- Recipient of DST-BHU Synergistic Research Training Grant for “Techniques on Advanced Imaging and Mass Spectroscopy” funded by Department of Science & Technology(DST), Govt. of India from June 01-07, 2022
Ryan Kulesa
- Kline Fellowship, University of Missouri, Columbia, $1000 2022-2023 Academic Year
- Graduate Professional Council Travel Award, $600 February 2022
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.)