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2023

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.

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.
  • Kulesa, Ryan. 2023. “The Doing/Allowing Distinction in the Divine Context.” Religious Studies
  • Kulesa, Ryan. 2023. “The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion.” Utilitas 35(3): 218-228.

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.

Fernando Alvear

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
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Presentations

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.
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Significant Student Awards

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.)