Graduate Student Achievements

Publications

• Jeff Behrends

  • "Meta-normative Realism, Evolution, and Our Reasons to Survive," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)
  • "Finlay and Schroeder on Promoting a Desire" (with Joshua DiPaolo), Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org, December 2011
  • "A New Argument for the Multiplicity of the Good-for Relation," The Journal of Value Inquiry, 45 (2) 2011, pp. 121 - 133

• Stewart Eskew

  • “Religious Belief and Surrogate Medical Decision Making,” with Christopher Meyers, Journal of Clinical Ethics (Summer 2009)

• Molly Gardner

  • "Retribution, Deterrence, and Organ Donation," The American Journal of Bioethics (11:10) 2011, pp. 7-9.
  • "Cut the Fat! Defending Trans Fat Bans" (co-written with Nathan Nobis) The American Journal of Bioethics (10:3) 2010, pp. 39-40.

• Michael Goldsby

  • "The 'Structure' of the 'Strategy': Looking at the Matthewson-Weisberg Tradeoff and its Justificatory Role for the Multiple-Models Approach," Philosophy of Science (forthcoming).

• Casey Helgeson

  • “The confirmational significance of agreeing measurements” (forthcoming) Philosophy of Science
  • “What selection can and cannot explain: a reply to Nanay’s critique of Sober” Philosophy of Science, 2013.
  • “Puzzles for ZFEL, McShea and Brandon’s zero force evolutionary law” (with Martin Barrett, Hayley Clatterbuck, Michael Goldsby, Brian McLoone, Trevor Pearce, Elliott Sober, Reuben Stern, and Naftali Weinberger) Biology and Philosophy, 2012.

• Holly Kantin

  • "Is Evidence Knowledge?" (Co-authored with Juan Comesaña) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80 (2) (2010): 447-454.

• David Killoren

  • "Moral Intuitions, Reliability, and Disagreement": Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy [4:1] 2010, pp. 1-35.

• David Moon

  • Note, When Does Dual For-Cause Removal Protection Become Unconstitutional? Exploring the Scope of Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, 2013 Wis. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming).

• Blake Myers-Schulz

  • "Knowing That P Without Believing That P" (co-authored with Eric Schwitzgebel) Nous (forthcoming).
  • "Functional anatomy of ventromedial prefrontal cortex: Implications for mood and anxiety disorders" (co-authored with Mike Koenigs) Molecular Psychiatry 2011, doi: 10.1038/mp.2011.88. [Epub ahead of print]

• Peter Nichols

  • “Wide Reflective Equilibrium as a Method of Justification in Bioethics,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (forthcoming)
  • “Abortion, Time-Relative Interests, and Futures Like Ours,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice [15:5] (2012), pp.493-506
  • “Substance Concepts and Personal Identity,” Philosophical Studies [150:2] (2010), pp.255-270.

• Michael Roche

  • “A Difficulty for Testing the Inner Sense Theory,” Philosophy of Science (forthcoming)

• Gina Schouten

  • “Fair Educational Opportunity and the Distribution of Natural Ability: Toward a Prioritarian Principle of Educational Justice,” forthcoming in Journal of Philosophy of Education
  • “Educational Justice: Closing Gaps or Paying Debts?” Journal of Applied Philosophy, [vol. 29, no. 3] 2012, pp. 231-242.
  • “Understanding the Context for Existing Reform and Research Proposals”in Whither Opportunity, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane, eds. Russell Sage Foundation (New York: 2011), pp. 507-522 (with Harry Brighouse)

• Daniel Schneider

  • “Spinoza’s PSR as a Principle of Clear and Distinct Representation,” 31pp. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)

• Naftali Weinberger

  • "Is there an Empirical Disagreement between Genic and Genotypic Selection Models?: A Response to Brandon and Nijhout" Philosophy of Science, 78 (April 2011)

• Bekka Williams

  • "He's Applying the Golden Rule. Are You?", in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy, ed. Mark Ralkowski and Chris Tennberg. Open Court Press (forthcoming).

Professional Presentations

• Jeff Behrends

  • "Parfit's All or None Argument and the Development of Normative Hybridism," American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division, 2012); Central States Philosophical Association (2012); Midsouth Philosophy Conference (2012)
  • "Meta-normative Realism, Evolution, and Our Reasons to Survive," 5th annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (2012); 6th annual conference of the Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (2012); Indian Philosophical Association (2012); Wisconsin Philosophical Association (2012)
  • "When do the Means Promote the Ends?" (with Joshua DiPaolo), Naturalisms in Ethics Conference (2011); Graduate University of Wisconsin Philosophy Conference (2011)
  • "Humean Normativity and the Too Few Reasons Objection," Iowa Philosophical Society (2010)

• Daniel Crow

  • “The Rational Explanation of our Moral Intuitions,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (August 2012)
  • "Did Hume know less than he thought? A Defense of Alvin Plantinga's "Ignorance Argument against Hume" Eastern Division Society of Christian Philosophers, March 2011
  • "Genealogical Critiques of Naturalism" C.S. Lewis Society Oxbridge Academic Roundtable, July 2011
  • "The Argument from Reason and the Causal Objection to Non-Naturalism" University of Wisconsin Graduate Philosophy Conference (GUWP), August 2011

• Kevin Dewan

  • "The Inseparability of Mental Content and Processes," Iowa Philosophical Society, Davenport, IA (October 2011)
  • "A More Modest Reductive Physicalism," Wisconsin Philosophical Association, Milwaukee, WI (April 2011)

• Stewart Eskew

  • "Prospects for a Non-Causal, Non-Natural Moral Perceptualism" Alabama Philosophical Society Conference, Pensacola, FL (October 2012)
  • “Religious Belief and Surrogate Medical Decision Making” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, San Antonio Texas (February 2008)

• Molly Gardner

  • “The Comparative Account of Misfortune” (poster presentation) Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, 2012
  • “How to Count Value” (with Justin Weinberg) Bled Conference on Ethics, 2012
  • “Is Value Monism Compatible with Incomparability?” Joint Meeting of the South Carolina Society for Philosophy and the North Carolina Philosophical Society, 2012
  • “The Problem of Too Much Harm” (poster presentation) Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, 2011
  • “Beneficence and Procreation,” Russell VII Mini-Conference, 2011
  • “Time Travelers Who Kill Their Younger Selves: They're Closer Than You Think,” Central States Philosophical Association, 2010
  • “Situationism and Autonomy” Wisconsin Philosophical Association, 2010

• Michael Goldsby

  • "The 'Structure' of the 'Strategy': Looking at the Matthewson-Weisberg Tradeoff and its Justificatory Role for the Multiple-Models Approach," Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting (November 2012).
  • "Mindreading and Me: a Critical Look at Introspection," University of South Florida Graduate Conference, 2008.
  • "Finding the Mind," University of South Florida Graduate Conference, 2009.
  • "Levins Got it Backwards," International Society of History, Social Sciences and Philosophy of Biology, 2011.

• Casey Helgeson

  • "Modus Darwin Reconsidered," APA Pacific (March 2013)
  • “The confirmational significance of agreeing measurements,” PSA (November 2012)
  • “So you want to be a realist about models,” (with Bengt Autzen) British Society for the Philosophy of Science (2011)
  • "Darwin's Biogeographical Evidence", Celebration of Darwin Conference at Virginia Tech, November 2009.
  • "Cross-validation in Darwin's Argument for Common Ancestry", Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, September 2010.
  • "Why Taxonomize Hierarchically?", International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, July 2011

• Justin Horn

  • “Fundamental Moral Disagreement, Sidgwick's Principle, and Moral Reliability,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (August 2012); Iowa Philosophical Society (October 2011)
  • “Global Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics,” UW GreenHouse Learning Community “Global Meals” Series (November 2011)
  • “Moral Philosophy and Meat-Eating,” Panel Discussion on the Ethics of Meat, UW Dept of Zoology (April 2011)
  • “Evolution and Moral Realism,” Iowa Philosophical Society (November 2010), Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (August 2010)

• Holly Kantin

  • "Four-Dimensionalism, Spatiotemporal Coincidence, and the Grounding Problem" North Carolina Philosophical Society (2011), Wisconsin Philosophical Association (2011).
  • "Ontological Nihilism and the Puzzles of Coincidence" Central States Philosophical Association (2011), Mountain Plain Philosophical Conference (2011).

• Jay Leardi

  • "Homogenous Pink" (with Kathleen Akins), Wilfrid Sellars Centenary Conference, Dublin Ireland (July 2012)

• Brian McLoone

  • (with Steven Hecht Orzack) "Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology: A Study in Contrasts," ISHPSSB conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011

• Blake Myers-Schulz

  • "Judgments of Belief and Knowledge: Interactive yet Independent", Experimental Philosophy Society, Eastern APA, December 2009.

• Peter Nichols

  • “Foundationalist Reflective Equilibrium” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress V, Boulder, CO, August 2012 Wisconsin Philosophical Association, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, April 2012
  • Comments on Dan Demetriou’s “Fundamental Moral Disagreement, Antirealism, and Honor” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress V, Boulder, CO, August 2012
  • “Stage Theory and the Platitude” Central APA, Chicago, February 2012
  • “Abortion and Fetal Pain” Illinois Philosophical Association, Northern Illinois University, November 2011
  • “Abortion, Time-Relative Interests, and Futures Like Ours” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress IV, Boulder, CO, August 2011 Wisconsin Philosophical Association, Mount Mary College, April 2011
  • Comments on Sara Bernstein’s “A Metaphysical Puzzle about Moral Difference” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress IV, Boulder, CO, August 2011
  • “Rethinking the Branch-Line Case: An Objection to Parfit” Central APA, Chicago, February 2010 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress II, Boulder, CO, August 2009
  • “Substance Concepts and Personal Identity” Pacific APA, Vancouver, April 2009
  • Comments on William Simkulet’s “Ontological Commitment Issues: Against Strong Modal Fictionalism” Central States Philosophical Association Conference, Saint Paul, September 2008
  • “Subphysical Entities: Why We Cannot Define ‘Physical’ as ‘Fundamentally Non-Mental’” Iowa Philosophical Society Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA, October 2007
  • “Dissolving the Problem of Too Many Thinkers” Central States Philosophical Association Conference, Memphis, October 2006
  • “Questioning Physicalism: Can We Adequately Define ‘Physical’?” Northern Illinois University Graduate Conference, January 2005
  • Illinois Philosophical Association Conference, Loyola University, November 2004

• Jeffery Pretti

  • "Substitution, Simple Sentences, and Designating Disguises", Cerisy Context Conference, Cerisy, France, June 2011
  • "Expressing Implicatures", Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, March 2011
  • "Semantic Content within a Naturalistic Theory of Representation", Southeast Philosophy Congress, Clayton, GA, February 2011
  • "Freedom' Doesn't Come Cheap", Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, February 2007
  • "Restricting Lehrer's Coherence Theory of Justification", Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, February, 2006
  • "Broadening Deliberation: Theoretical Irrationality in Practice", Midwest Graduate Philosophy Conference, DeKalb, IL, 2006

• Michael Roche

  • “A Difficulty for Testing the Inner Sense Theory,” The Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting (November 2012)
  • “Self-Knowledge of Belief - A Defense of Alex Byrne’s Transparency Account,” The Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (June 2012)
  • “How Not to Argue For (or Against) the Inner Sense Theory,” The Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (July 2011)
  • “The Psycho-Neural Commitment of Inner Sense Accounts of Introspection,” The Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (April 2010)

• Daniel Schneider

  • “‘A Spiritual Automaton’: Spinoza, Reason, and the Letters to Blyenbergh,” Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, (2012), Meeting of the Descartes Seminar, (2013)
  • “Why It Takes an Eternity to Explain Duration in Spinoza’s Ethics.” British Society for the History of Philosophy Conference, (2012)
  • “An Eternal Truth? Two Puzzles Concerning Spinoza’s Principle of Sufficient Reason” New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, (2011); Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, (2011)
  • "Ontological Arguments Don't Work, Except When They Do: A Defense of Spinoza's Ontological Argument", Spinoza Workshop, University of Ghent, Belgium (December 2010), Iowa Philosophical Society, Grinnell College, Iowa (Novemeber 2010).

• Gina Schouten

  • "Toward a Prioritarian Principle of Educational Justice," Iowa Philosophical Society, November 2010
  • "In Opposition to Moral Luck: An Exercise in Biting Bullets," Kentucky Philosophical Association, November 2010
  • "Evidential Parity and the Uniqueness Thesis," Wisconsin Philosophical Association, April 2010
  • "Toward a Prioritarian Principle of Educational Jutice," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2011
  • "Kant and the Duty of Revolution," Graduate University of Wisconsin Philosophy, August 2011

• Reuben Stern

  • "Free Will, Contextualism, and the Law", APA Eastern Divisional Meeting, District of Columbia (December 2011), Southern Society of Philosophy & Psychology, New Orleans, LA (March 2011), 14th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference, Oxford, UK (November 2010), Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN (March 2011)
  • "Can the Contextualist Win the Free Will Debate?", GSU Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Symposium, Atlanta, GA (March 2011)
  • "Consilient Generalizations as Laws of Nature", Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN (February 2012), Pacific APA, San Francisco, CA (March 2013)

• Dennis Trinkle

  • "Delusions and Downstream Effects," Wisconsin Philosophical Association (2012), Central States Philosophical Association (2012), Illinois Philosophical Association (2012).

• Bekka Williams

  • "Justice and Motivational Constraints", York University Philosophy Graduate Students' Association Conference, April 2010.
  • "Justice and Motivational Constraints", University of Iowa Graduate Philosophical Society Conference, March 2010.
  • "Comments on Mark Anderson, Why Friends of the Character View of Moral Worth Should Reconsider'", Central States Philosophical Association Meeting, October 2009.
  • "Comments on Christopher Freiman, Prioritarian Justice and Positional Goods'", American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2009.
  • "Justice and Psychological Ability", University of Wisconsin Graduate Colloquium Conference, July 2008.

• Danielle Wylie

  • "The Commitments of Psychological Moral Rationalism," Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (February 2013)
  • "Defending Rationalism from Psychopaths," Pacific APA (April 2012), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (March 2012)
  • "How Psychopaths Don't Threaten Empirical Rationalism," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (August 2012)
  • "Responsibility (and Non-Responsibility) Proliferation," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (August 2011)
  • "Modularity and Moral Nativism", International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), July 2011.
  • "The Parameter Setting Problem for Moral Nativism," Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (March 2011)