Graduate Student Presentations
Since 2009, in reverse chronological order
Kate Ritchie
“The Ontological Commitments of Natural Language are Indeterminate”
Mathematising Science: Limits and Perspectives Conference, University of East Anglia UK, May 2013
Steve James
“Remembering and Knowing”
41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Montreal, May 2013
Jonathan Vanderhoek
“Moral Judgement and Empathic Perspective-Taking”
CUNY Philosophy Graduate Conference, NYC, April 2013
Jonathan Vanderhoek
“Excellence at Moral Judgment”
39th Conference of Value Inquiry: Virtur Vice and Character, Western Kentucky University, April 2013
Fatema Amijee
“Kant's Transcendental Idealism and the Grounding Constraint”
Harvard-MIT Graduate Conference in Philosophy, April 2013
Steve James
“Remembering and Knowing”
Texas Tech University Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 2013
Daniel Eaton
"Wagering on Pragmatic Encroachment"
Workshop on Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, UK, March 2013
Fatema Amijee
“Kant's Transcendental Idealism and the Grounding Constraint”
36th Annual Graduate Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, March 2013
Fatema Amijee
“A Return to Neutral Relations: A Puzzle about Symmetry”
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 2013
Alex Grzankowski
“ 'Can' and the Consequence Argument”
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 2013
Ivy Tsoi
“The Concept of a Composite Agent”
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 2013
Daniel Eaton
"Wagering on Interest Relative Invariantism"
Evangelical Philosophical Society Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, November 2012
Brian Cutter
“Countering Schaffer's Counterexamples to the transitivity of grounding”
Illinois Philosophical Association Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, November 2012
Chris Raymond
"Shame and Virtue in Plato's Charmides"
International Plato Society Regional Meeting, Ann Arbor, October 2012
Fatema Amijee
"Symmetrical Relations Revisited: A Defense of Positionalism"
The Society for Exact Philosophy, hosted by The Ohio State University, October 2012
Alex Grzankowski
"Attitudes Towards Objects"
The Society for Exact Philosophy, hosted by The Ohio State University, October 2012
Malcolm Keating
"How Can I Know What You Mean? Implication, Inference, and Dhvani"
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, Fordham University, October 2012
Kate Ritchie
"The Shifty Behavior of Collective Nouns"
Collective Intentionality VIII Conference, University of Manchester, UK, August 2012
Keith Turausky
"Picturing Panpsychism"
Panpsychism on the Reef Workshop, Lady Elliot Island, Australia, July 2012
Brian Cutter
“Toward a unified theory of explanation”
Science and Metaphysics, University of Kent at Canterbury, July 2012
Fatema Amijee
"In Defense of Understanding-Assent Links"
Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference, June 2012
Danielle Wolfson
"The Problematic Nature of Amnesty"
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Graduate Conference, May 2012
Jason Schukraft
"Against Negative Causation"
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Graduate Conference, May 2012
Fatema Amijee
"The Role of Acquaintance in Russell's Philosophy"
Meeting of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAPP), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, May 2012
Jerry Green
"Covenants in Hobbes' State of Nature"
Princeton-Penn-Columbia Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophsy, April 2012
6th Annual Texas Tech University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference on The History of Philosphy, April 2012
Danielle Wolfson
"The Problematic Nature of Amnesty"
Indiana Philosophical Association Meeting, DePauw University April 2012
Daniel Eaton
"A New Cost for Denying Closure"
Talbot Philosophical Society Graduate Conference, Biola University, April 2012
David Ivy
"A Naive Realist Argument against Intentionalism"
APA Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 2012
Malcolm Keating
“Lakṣaṇā and Sort-Shifting in Mukula Bhaṭṭa’s Abhidhāvṛttimātṛkā”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Seattle, April 2012
Kate Ritchie
"What are Groups?"
APA Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 2012
Alex Grzankowski
“The Metaphysics of Non-Propositional Attitudes”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 2012
Hsiangyun Chen
"On the Proportion Problem and its Solution"
Georgia State University Student Symposium, March 2012
Chris Simpson
"A Dilemma for the Humean Theory of Reasons"
2012 Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Florida, March 2012
Jonathan Vanderhoek
"Defending Empathy: The Ethical Importance of 'Understanding' Others' Mental States"
Graduate Philosophy Conference, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, March 2012
David Ivy
"Naive Realism and the Screening-Off Argument"
APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2012
Steve James
“De Re Hallucination as Objectual Remembering”
The USC/UCLA Philosophy Graduate Conference, February 2012
Jeremy Evans
“The Moral Psychology of Determinism”
Normative Impact of Moral Psychology Conference, University of Alabama-Birmingham, November 2011
Nora Berenstain
“Against Sophisticated Humeanism”
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark Collge, Portland, November 2011
Brian Cutter
“The Representational Nature of Consciousness”
Invited guest lecture, Whitman College, November 2011
Ivy Tsoi
“The Pragmatic Explanation”
The 63rd Northwest Philsophy Conference, Portland, November 2011
Jerry Green
“Man Pain and Mollusc Pain; Or, Multiple Realization as an Empirical Hypothesis”
The Virgina Tech University Graduate Philosophy Conference, November 2011
Keith Turausky
“Presentism, Eternalism, and Nonduality”
Science and Nonduality Conference, San Rafael, CA, October 2011
Steve James
“Perceiving, Remembering and Imagining: differentiating by differences in knowledge”
Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination, University of Glasgow, September 2011
Dave Frank
"The Ethics of Systematic Conservation Planning: Trade-offs and Coorpration"
University of Texas 2nd Annual Sustainability Symposium, September 2011
Alex Grzankowski
“The Expressive Limitations of Pictures”
British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, September 2011
David Frank
"Neuroecomonics, Reductionism, and Explanatory Extension: The Case of Utility"
ISHSPPB, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2011
Richard Davis
"Reconciling Realism and Commonsense about Color"
Metaphysics of Mind Conference, University of Glasgow, June 2011
Kate Ritchie
“Attributing Ontological Commitment”
Ordinary Language, Linguistics and Philosophy Conference
at Arché Research Centre at the University of St. Andrews, June 2011
David Frank
"Strong Reciprocity, The Folk Theorrem, and the Division of Cooperative Labor"
Evolution, Cooperation and RationalityII Pilosophical Perspectives, University of Bristol, UK, June 2011
Alex Grzankowski
“The Contents of Pictures and The Contents of Experiences”
39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Winnipeg, Canada, May 2011
Kate Ritchie
“What the Externalist Cannot Say About Slow Switching Cases”
Brandeis Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, April 2011,
and the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Winnipeg, Canada, May 2011
David Ivy
"Naive Realism and the Screening-Off Argument"
PhilMiLCog Graduate Conference, Universitiy of Western Ontario, May 2011
Steve James
"De Re Hallucination: A Distinctive Kind of Object-Dependence"
University of Waterloo's Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, April 2011
Stephen Davey
"The Problem with Quasi-Realist Expressivism"
2011 Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Gonzaga University, April 2011
David Frank
“Neuroeconomics and the Enhancement of Human Decision-making”
"Exploring Human Enhancement: A Symposium", hosted by The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas, April 2011
Brian Cutter
"Meaning, Use, and the Symmetry Objection to Epistemicism”
University of Oklahoma Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 2011
David Frank
"Modeling Chagas Disease Risk in Texas: Idealization and Multiple Models for Use"
Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation, University of Pittsburgh, April 2011
David Ivy
"Trialism and the Independence Criterion of Substance"
(co-authored with Dan Kaufman,) APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2011
Ivan Heyman
"Melissus on Pain"
34th Ancient Philosophy Workshop, Washington University, St. Louis, March 2011
Jerry Green
“How Not to Defend Virtue Ethics from Situationism”
University of Oklahoma Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 2011
Western Michigan 4th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference, December 2010
Alex Baia
“Surprise Exams are Conditionally Possible”
Shapiro Graduate Conference, Brown University, November 2010
APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2011
Jerry Green
“Self-Love in the Aristotelian Ethic”
APA Pacific Division, April 2011
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, APA Central Division Meeting, March 30-April 2, 2011
Alex Grzankowski
“Antonymy in the Attitudes”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, 85th Annual Meeting, April 2011
Jerry Green
“Does Situationism Support Eudaimonism?”
Eudaimonia and Virtue: Rethinking the Good Life, University of Miami, February 2011
David Frank
“Neuroecomonics as Metaphysics and Methodology:
Perspectives from Philosophy and NeuroScience "
International Network for Economic Method (INEM) Conference, University of Alabama, Birmingham, November 2010
Nora Berenstain
“Necessary Laws and Chemical Kinds”
Philosophy of Science Association, Montreal, November 2010
Alex Grzankowski
“Antonymy in the Attitudes”
The University of Miami - Mind and Ethics Graduate Workshop, November 2010
Paul Williams
“The Eudaimonistic Judgment and Extended Well-being: An Interpretation of Martha Nussbaum’s Account of Compassion”
“Self, Other, and the Social Good in a Cross-Cultural Context,” conference, South Asia Center, University of PA and the Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion, October 2010.
Jenn Neilson
"Optimism about Aesthetic Testimony"
American Society for Aesthetics Annual Conference in Victoria, B.C., October 2010
Nora Berenstain
“Metaphysical Dependence: The Role of Mathematical Structure in Physical Modality”
Structure and Identity Conference, University of Bristol, July 2010
Tomas Bogardus
"The Puzzle of Presence, Personal Identities, their Embodiments and Environments”
University of Hertfordshire, UK, July 2010
Aidan McGlynn
“Interpretation, Explanation, and Knowledge Maximization”
The Role of the Concept of Knowledge in our Social Cognitive Ecology
Episteme Conference, University of Edinburgh, June 2010
Jeremy Evans
“The Reactive Attitudes Debate”
Meta-ethics and Experimental Philosophy Conference, NYU, May 2010
Steve James
“Remembering Particulars”
PhilMiLCog, University of Western Ontario Graduate Conference, May 2010
Alex Baia
“Presentism, Eternalism, and Existence Simpliciter”
APA Pacific Colloquium Session, April 2010
Kate Ritchie
“Slow Switching and the Contents of Thoughts and Utterances”
University of Iowa Graduate Philosophy Society Conference, April 2010
Enrico Grube
“In Defense of Diachronic Perceptual Atomism”
Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson AZ, April 2010
Nora Berenstain
"Necessary Laws and Chemical Kinds: A Case Study in A Posteriori Necessity"
2010 USC/UCLA Philosophy Graduate Conference
Alex Grzankowski
“Are All Attitudes Propositional Attitudes?”
Pacific APA 84th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 31 - April 4, 2010
Michael Sevel
"Authority and Self-Knowledge"
McMaster Conference for Legal Theory, March 2010
Nora Berenstain
“Intersections with the Philosophy of Language”
Brandeis Graduate Philosophy Conference, March 2010
Aidan McGlynn
“On Epistemic Alchemy”
Justification Revisited, University of Geneva, Episteme Research Group
Geneva Switzerland, March 2010
Alex Grzankowski
“Unavoidable Antonymy in the Attitudes”
The Society for Exact Philosophy, Kansas City, MO, March 2010
Alex Grzankowski
"Are All Attitudes Propositional Attitudes?"
APA Pacific 84th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 31-April 4, 2010
Alex Grzankowski
"That Isn't What's Puzzling"
Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, October 2009
Malte Willer
"New Dynamics for Epistemic Modality"
Eastern APA (Symposium), December 2009
Alex Baia
"Presentism and Singular Predication"
The Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, October 2009
and The Illinois Philosophical Association Meeting, October 2009
Jenn Neilson
"Obscenity, Censorship and Aesthetic Value"
American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Denver CO, October 2009
John Bengson
"The Metaphysics of Intuitive Knowledge"
Arché Philosophical Research Centre, St. Andrews University, May 2009
John Bengson
"Intuition, Causation, and Explanation"
University of Wyoming, February 2009
