Congratulations to Chris Rahlwes for their article, “Nagarjuna, Madhyamaka, and Truth” being published in the Asian Journal of Philosophy!
Check out the article below!
Graduate Students
Yuhan Liang: Essay Published in Asian Philosophy Journal
Congratulations to our fellow Graduate Student, Yuhan Liang, for her essay being published in the journal Asian Philosophy!
Check out Yuhan’s essay, titled “Is there a universal priority in cases of value conflicts? – Reverse engineering Quan 權 ” below!
Alexandra Stamson: Winner of the 2023 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Fellowship
Congratulations to our very own Graduate Student, Alexandra Stamson, for winning the 2023 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Summer Fellowship!
Heather Muraviov: Awarded Residential Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame
Congratulations to Heather Muraviov for being awarded a residential fellowship at The Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame to study the nature and value of intellectual humility in contexts of oppression.
Check out more information on the award here.
Heather Muraviov and Tracy Llanera: Talk at California State Fullerton Philosophy Symposium
Congratulations to PH.D. student, Heather Muraviov, and Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera for presenting at the California State Fullerton Philosophy Symposium on Examining Extremism this week!
Heather’s talk is titled “Countering Extremist Mindsets through Liberatory Epistemic Virtues” and focuses on an application of Cassam’s view of extremist mindsets and radicalization to agents who resist oppression and engage in liberatory struggles.
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s talk is titled “Extremist Women and Fanaticism,” and focuses on women and their propensity to become fanatics in extremist groups.
Steve Núñez: Article on Black American Music
Congratulations to Steve Núñez for his article, “Swing on, Swing On”: Blue Note Hope and JID’s Forever Story, featured on The Blog of the American Philosophical Association!
Check out the article here!
Nimra Asif: Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Please join us in congratulating graduate student Nimra Asif, whose paper titled “The Value of Pushmi-pullyu Representations for Understanding Animal Minds” was selected for presentation at this year’s Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) to be held in Pittsburgh in June 2023.
Katie Peters: Extreme Beliefs and Responsibility
Please join us in congratulating Philosophy graduate student Katie Peters for her acceptance to present during the workshop Extreme Beliefs and Responsibility at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this June. She will be presenting her work “Out-Group Arrogance and In-Group Servility in Far-Right American Women”.
Congratulations, Katie!
Dorit Bar-On: Students Selected to Speak at “Practical Mental Representation” Conference
Congratulations to Professor Bar-On‘s graduate students Nimra Asif and Drew Johnson for being selected to give talks at the “Practical Mental Representation” conference at Chapman University! There were only two slots available for contributed talks and both will be discussing the aspect of Ruth Millikan’s work.
The “Practical Mental Representations” conference focuses on exploring solutions to answer two questions:
If mental representations have descriptive contents, how exactly do they fulfil their fundamentally practical functions? How can a description, whether accurate or inaccurate, itself motivate or set the normative standards for any sort of practical engagement with the world?
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Alexandra Stamson: “Narcissist Fathers and Powered Daughters”
Alexandra Stamson, one of our talented philosophy graduate students, has a book chapter coming out titled “Narcissist Fathers and Powered Daughters: Examining Narcissism and Gender” in N. K. Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate in February.
“This chapter is a deep-dive into kinship and the links between the patriarchal figure, the patriarchy system, and the agency of daughters within that system, and how narcissism plays into the roles of family by looking at the ways that the father/daughter relationship plays out in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy.”