Graduate Student Achievements
Graduate Student Achievements
2024
Gesiel da Silva
- da Silva, G. (2024). Are Plantinga's theodicy and defense incompatible? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 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, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13285
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
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. 2023. “The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion.” Utilitas 35(3): 218-228.
- Kulesa, Ryan. 2023. “The Doing/Allowing Distinction in the Divine Context.” Religious Studies
- Kulesa, Ryan. “Kantian Conscientious Objection: A reply to Kennette.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.
- Kulesa, Ryan. “Toward a Medical Standard of Care: Why Medical Professionals Can Refuse to Prescribe Puberty Blockers.” The New Bioethics (forthcoming).
Hamid Nourbakshi
- Nourbakhshi, H. (2023). The role of imagination and recollection in the method of phenomenal contrast; Theoria, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12489
- Nourbakhshi H; Moral Perception; Nashr Negah Moaser; Iran, Forthcoming
Naveed Mustahid
- Sabera T, Rahman NM. (2023). Justice as Fairness and the Constitution of Bangladesh. In: Hoque R, Chowdhury R, eds. A History of the Constitution of Bangladesh (pp. 209–223). Routledge.
- Rahman NM. (2023). Constitutional Change in Bangladesh: Underscoring the Need for Public Participation in the Process. In: Haque ME, Chowdhuri R, eds. Constitutional Law of Bangladesh (pp. 103–118). Springer.
Sukhvinder Shahi
- Chakrabarty, Urna, Romy Feiertag, Anne-Marie McCallion, Brian McNiff, Jesse Prinz, Montaque Reynolds, Sukhvinder Shahi, Maya von Ziegesar, and Angella Yamamoto. "Adaptive preferences: An empirical investigation of feminist perspectives." In Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy, pp. 310-330. Routledge, 2023.
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.
- Gupta, R. (2022) “Understanding the Nature of Ultimate Reality: From the Concept of Quantum Vacuum to the Emergence of Consciousness and Beyond” in H.P. Singh (ed.) Avriti, Booksagile, New Delhi.
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
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.
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.)