Graduate Student Achievements

Publications

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Ryan Kulesa

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Fernando Alvear

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.
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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.
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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.

Presentations

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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
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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.

Significant Student Awards

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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
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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