Faculty Research Updates
Kathleen Akins delivered the Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture in Antwerp at Ghent, and gave presentations at Dartmouth College, the City University of New York (CUNY), and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology in Prague.
Holly Andersen published The Pragmatist Challenge: Pragmatist Metaphysics for Philosophy of Science (co-edited with Sandra Mitchell, Oxford University Press), “Trueing” (in The Pragmatist Challenge), and "Every View is a View from Somewhere: Pragmatist Laws and Possibility" in Theoria. Forthcoming works include "Pattern Ontologies at Work" (in Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Gronda, Janak, and Marchetti, Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science series), "Why Adoption of Causal Modeling Methods Requires some Metaphysics" (in Routledge Handbook of Causation and Causal Methods, edited by P. Ilari and F. Russo), as well as "A Values Framework for Evaluating Alienation in Off-Earth Food Systems" (co-authored with Elliot Schwartz and Tammara Soma (in Food Ethics).
She gave presentations at the Universite Paris 1 Patheon-Sorbonne and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Zara Anwarzai gave presentations at Trinity College (Dublin) and Duke University.
Endre Begby published "Theory of Mind Deficits in Language-Delayed Deaf Subjects: A Reconsideration of Evidence from False Belief Tasks" (in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences), "Prejudiced Belief: Evidential Considerations" (in M. Lasonen-Aarnio and C. Littlejohn, eds, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence), as well as a substantial review of Thomas Kelly's book Bias: A Philosophical Study (in Ethics). In addition, the journal Inquiry hosted an Author-meets-Critics session on his book Prejudice: A Study in Non-Ideal Epistemology (Oxford University Press 2021), featuring a lengthy synopsis of the book as well as substantial responses to featured articles by Renee Jorgensen, Giulia Napolitano, and Thomas Kelly. He also has two articles forthcoming: "Opportunity Costs and Resource Allocation Problems: Epistemology for Finite Minds" (in Canadian Journal of Philosophy) and "Signal-to-Noise: Towards an Alternative Account of the Fake News Phenomenon" (in M. Popa-Wyatt (ed.), Mis/Disinformation and Other Epistemic Pathologies (Cambridge University Press).)
He gave presentations at the Technical University of Berlin, the University of Oslo, University of Indiana-Bloomington, Northeastern University (London), and the Arche-Centre at the University of St. Andrews. Finally, he was the keynote speaker at the Western Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting in 2023.
Nic Bommarito gave presentations at Oberlin College, UNC-Chapel Hill, and WashU-St. Louis.
Nic Fillion is under contract to deliver the book Perturbation Methods using Backward Error" with co-author Robert Corless. His article "Scientific Demonology and the Philosophy of Scientific Practice" is forthcoming in Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics.
He gave talks at the University of Calgary, the World Logic Day in BC and Alberta, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, and delivered the Keynote at the Models, Representation, and Computation conference in Paris.
Bruno Guindon has one paper forthcoming for publication: "Luck and Normative Achievements: Let not Safety be our Guide" (in Episteme).
Alex King published “Meaning and Morals in Taylor’s Versions” (in Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-Recording (ed. Brandon Polite), New York: Bloomsbury Publishing), “Toward an Epistemology of Literary Judgment” (Modern Literary Studies), “Universalism and the Problem of Aesthetic Diversity” (Journal of the American Philosophical Association), and “Response-Dependence and Aesthetic Theory” (in Fittingness (eds. Chris Howard and R.A. Rowland), Oxford: Oxford University Press).)
She gave presentations at Oberlin College, the University of Victoria, the Dartmouth Aesthetics Workshop, the Harvard Metaethics Workshop, the American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting. Finally, she was the keynote speaker at the Metaethics in the Mountains Workshop and the Existential Aesthetics Conference.
Qiu Lin published "Towards a New Phase of Du Châtelet Scholarship: from Institutions de Physique (1740) to Institutions Physiques (1742)" (in Philosophy of Science). She gave a presentation to the History of Modern Philosophy Group at the University of Toronto.
Chelsea Rosenthal gave presentations at UC Berkeley, the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Langara College, and the Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop.
Evan Tiffany has two papers forthcoming for publication: “Answering for Negligence: A Unified Account of Moral and Criminal Responsibility” (in the Journal of Ethics) and “Transferred Culpability and the Problem of Voluntary Intoxication” (in Canadian Journal of Philosophy).
Jennifer Wang published “The Metaphysics of Personhood in Confucian Role Ethics” (in Asian Journal of Philosophy) and gave presentations at the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome, the Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought, the Pacific APA, and Washington and Lee University.
Kino Zhao gave presentations at Northeastern University, Chapman University, Wuhan University, and the University of Tubingen.