Faculty Achievements

Confronting Evils

By Claudia Card

• John Bengson

  • "Conceptions, Understanding, and Epistemic Progress", presented at the 2011 Conference on Philosophical Progress at Harvard University and the 2011 Conference on the Epistemology of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, Germany.
  • “Experimental Attacks on Intuitions and Answers”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
  • "Practical Perception", presented at the 2011 Columbia Perception Workshop at Columbia University and the 2011 Conference on Perceptual Capacities at the Australian National University.
  • “A New Framework for Conceptualism”, Noûs 45, 1: 167–89 (2011).
  • Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action, co-edited with Marc Moffett, Oxford University Press (2011). Includes a co-authored state of play essay titled “Two Conceptions of Mind and Action: Knowledge How and the Philosophical Theory of Intelligence” and a co-authored chapter titled "Non-propositional Intellectualism" (with Marc Moffett).

• Harry Brighouse

  • (with Adam Swift), “Legitimate Parental Partiality”, Philosophy and Public Affairs 37, 1 (2009), 43–80.
  • Educational Equality (with James Tooley and Kenneth Howe as commentators), Continuum 2010
  • Keynote speaker at the 2010 Comparative and International Education Society conference “Reimagining Education”
  • Keynote master class called “Ethical Exigencies and Opportunities: The Space for Moral Action” at “The Case for Change in College Admissions” conference sponsored by the USC Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice in January 2011
  • Codirector of the Spencer Foundation’s Initiative on Philosophy in Educational Policy and Practice

• Claudia Card

  • Presidential Address, "Surviving Long-Term Mass Atrocities: U-Boats, Catchers, and Ravens," at the Central Division American Philosophical Association Convention, April 1, 2011, Minneapolis.
  • Hilldale Award in the Arts and Humanities for Research, Teaching, and Service, April 4, 2011
  • Book: Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide (Cambridge U. Press, 2010).
  • University Housing Instructor Award, April 2011 (2d year in a row).
  • Essay: "Kant’s Moral Excluded Middle," in Kant’s Anatomy of Evil: Interpretive Essays and Contemporary Applications, ed. Sharon Anderson-Gold and Pablo Muchnik (Cambridge U. Press, 2010).

• Malcolm Forster

  • Editor (with Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay) Philosophy of Statistics. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Elsevier 2011.
  • (with Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay) “Introduction.” In Prasanta Bandyopadhyay and Malcolm Forster (eds.), The Philosophy of Statistics, Elsevier, 2011.
  • (with Elliott Sober) “AIC Scores as Evidence — A Bayesian Interpretation.” In Prasanta Bandyopadhyay and Malcolm Forster (eds.), The Philosophy of Statistics, Elsevier, 2011.
  • “Scientific Evidence”, in Steven French and and Juha Saatsi (eds.), Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Continuum Press, 2011.
  • Fulbright award in Italy, University of Siena, April to July, 2011.

• Paula Gottlieb

  • Awarded Sabbatical leave for 2010–11.
  • “Aristotle” in Roger Crisp, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, forthcoming.
  • Delivered public lecture “Aristotelian Happiness” and master class on Aristotelian friendship at SUNY Brockport, October 2010.
  • Presented invited paper “How is Aristotelian Akrasia Possible?” at the Philosophy Colloquium of the University of Arkansas, December 2010.
  • Participated as author in an author-meets-critics session on The Virtue of Aristotle’s Ethics, at the Central meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2011. (The critics were Hendrik Lorenz [Princeton] and Lakovos Vasiliou [CUNY Graduate Center].)

• Dan Hausman

  • Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow, October, 2010.
  • Preference, Value, Choice and Welfare (forthcoming Cambridge University Press).
  • Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lectures (February, 2011).
  • “Mistakes about Preferences in the Social Sciences” Philosophy of the Social Sciences (January, 2011).
  • Invited lectures in Geneva, Paris, London, Cambridge, Leuven, and Berlin.

• Paul Kelleher

  • “Efficiency and Equity in Health: Philosophical Considerations.” In Anthony Culyer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Health Economics, forthcoming.
  • “Real and Alleged Problems for Daniels’s Account of Health Justice.” Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, forthcoming.
  • “Energy Policy and the Social Discount Rate.” In special issue of Ethics, Policy & Environment on the Japanese nuclear disaster, forthcoming.
  • “Emergency Contraception and Conscientious Objection.” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2010, 27(3): 290–304.

• Steven Nadler

  • A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise (Princeton University Press, 2011).
  • “Consciousness”, forthcoming in Daniel Kaufman, ed., The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.
  • “The Intellectual Love of God”, forthcoming in Michael Della Rocca, ed., The Oxford Handbook to Spinoza (forthcoming).
  • Delivered the lecture "Spinoza and Toleration", for the Golden Age Lecture at the University of Amsterdam, October 2010.
  • Editor, Journal of the History of Philosophy

• Sarah Paul

  • “How We Know What We Intend,” Philosophical Studies, June 2011, 10.1007/s11098-011-9741-2.
  • “Deviant Formal Causation,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, v.5, no. 3, April 2011.
  • Review of Alan H. Goldman, Reasons from Within: Desires and Values (Oxford 2010), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 2011.

• Russ Shafer-Landau

  • Cowling Distinguished Visiting Professor, Carleton College (May 2011)
  • Fundamentals of Ethics, 2ed (Oxford University Press, published July 2011)
  • The Ethical Life, 2ed (Oxford University Press, published July 2011)
  • Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 6 (published July 2011)
  • Organizer of the 8th Annual Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (Sept 2011)

• Larry Shapiro

  • Incoming Phi Beta Kappa President for University of Wisconsin alpha chapter.
  • Embodied Cognition (Routledge, 2011).
  • “Mental Manipulations and the Problem of Causal Exclusion” will appear in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
  • "Identity, Variability, and Multiple Realization in the Special Sciences," co-authored with Thomas Polger, will appear in a Cambridge University Press volume edited by Simone Gozzano and Chris Hill.
  • A chapter on embodied cognition is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, E. Margolis, R. Samuels, and S. Stich (eds.).

• Alan Sidelle

  • “The Method of Verbal Dispute,” Philosophical Issues (2007), 83–113 (While it says '2007', it was actually published in 2010!)
  • “Modality and Objects,” Philosophical Quarterly (January 2010), 109-25
  • University Housing Teaching Excellence Award

• Elliott Sober

  • Did Darwin write the Origin Backwards? Philosophical Essays on Darwin’s Theory, was published by Prometheus Books in April 2011.
  • Elected President of The International Union for History and Philosophy of Science (Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science) at the organization’s July meeting in Nancy, France and will serve a 4 year term starting in 2012.
  • Evidence and Evolution — the Logic Behind the Science was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.

• Rob Streiffer

  • (with John Basl) “Ethical Issues in the Application of Biotechnology to Animals in Agriculture.” In Tom Beauchamp and Richard Frey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • "Chimeras, Moral Status, and Public Policy: Implications of the Abortion Debate for Public Policy on Human/Nonhuman Chimera Research." The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 38(2): 238–250.
  • “Informed Consent and Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research.” Hastings Center Report 39(3): 40–47.
  • (with Sara Gavrell Ortiz) “Animals in Research: Enviropigs.” In Gary Comstock (ed) Life Science Ethics, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2010.
  • "Animal-Human Mixtures." Deutscher Ethikrat (German Ethics Council), Berlin, 2010.

• Mike Titelbaum

  • "The Relevance of Self-Locating Beliefs." To be anthologized in Ram Neta (ed.), Epistemology, Vol. III, Routledge, forthcoming. (Previously published in Philosophical Review and anthologized in The Philosophers' Annual.)
  • "Self-Locating Credences." In Alan Hajek and Christopher Hitchcock (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • “Symmetry and Evidential Support.” Symmetry (topical issue on “Symmetry in Probability and Inference”). Forthcoming.
  • "De Se Epistemology." In Alessandro Capone and Neil Feit (eds.), Attitudes 'de se': Linguistics, epistemology, metaphysics, CSLI Publications, forthcoming.
  • "Not Enough There There: Evidence, Reasons, and Language Independence." Philosophical Perspectives 24 (2010): 477-528.

• Peter Vranas

  • “New foundations for imperative logic: Pure imperative inference” (78 pages), appeared in Mind (April 2011).
  • Received a 2011–2013 Vilas Associate Award to work on moral dilemmas.
  • Received a 2010 Honored Instructors Award.