Graduate Student Achievements

Embodied Cognition

By Lawrence Shapiro

Publications

• Mark Anderson

  • "Molinism, Open Theism, and Soteriological Luck", Religious Studies (forthcoming).

• Jeff Behrends

  • "A New Argument for the Multiplicity of the Good-for Relation," forthcoming at The Journal of Value Inquiry

• Molly Gardner

  • "Cut the Fat! Defending Trans Fat Bans" (co-written with Nathan Nobis) The American Journal of Bioethics (10:3) 2010, pp. 39-40.

• 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.

• Matthew Kopec

  • "A More Fulfilling (and Frustrating) Take on Reflexive Predictions" Philosophy of Science (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

  • "Abortion, Time-Relative Interests, and Futures Like Ours" Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (forthcoming).
  • "Substance Concepts and Personal Identity" Philosophical Studies (150) 2010, pp.255-270.

• Gina Schouten

  • "Understanding the Context for Existing Reform and Research Proposals" (co-authored with Harry Brighouse) Whither Opportunity 2011, pp. 507-522

• Eric Stencil

  • "Malebranche and the General Will of God” British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 29 pp. (forthcoming).
  • Review of Walter Ott, Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy Journal of the History of Philosophy 48, (2010).

• Leigh Vicens

  • "Divine Determinism, Human Freedom, and the Consequence Argument," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, forthcoming

• Matt Waldren

  • "Egalitarianism Reconsidered" (co-authored with Dan Hausman) forthcoming in The Journal of Moral Philosophy (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)

• Brynn Welch

  • "To Nudge or Not to Nudge," co-authored with Daniel M. Hausman. The Journal of Political Philosophy, 18 (1): 123-136.

• 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

• Mark Anderson

  • "Why Friends of the Character View of Moral Worth Should Reconsider", Central States Philosophical Association, October 2009.

• Jeff Behrends

  • "When do the Means Promote the Ends?" (with Joshua DiPaolo), Naturalisms in Ethics Conference, July 2011
  • "Humean Normativity and the Too Few Reasons Objection," Iowa Philosophical Society, November 2010

• Daniel Crow

  • "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

  • "A More Modest Reductive Physicalism," Wisconsin Philosophical Association, April 2011

• Molly Gardner

  • "Time Travelers Who Kill Their Younger Selves: They're closer Than You Think", Central States PhilosophicalAssociation, Fall 2010
  • "Situationism and Autonomy" Wisconsin Philosophical Association, Spring, 2010

• Michael Goldsby

  • "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.

• Fred Harrington

  • "Disease, Designer Babies, & Deafness: The Moral Boundaries of Prenatal Genetic Selection" University of Kentucky Department of Philosophy, April 2011
  • "Rights and Agent-Relative Consequentialism" American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, Dec 2010, Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2010, 36th Conference on Value Inquiry, Southern Illinois University, April 2010, John Stuart Mill Memorial Conference, Eastern Illinois University, April 2010
  • Comments on Michael Nelson's "An Uncompromising Connection between Practical Reason and Morality" Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2010
  • "Consequentialist Rights and the Rightholder as the Source of Duties" American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, New York, December 2009 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2009
  • "The Concept and Grounding of Human Rights" Human Rights Initiative Graduate Student Forum, University of Wisconsin, February 2009
  • "The Inadequacy of Contractarian Grounding of Rights" 34th Conference on Value Inquiry, Adrian College (MI), April 2007

• Casey Helgeson

  • "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

  • "Evolution and Moral Realism", Iowa Philosophical Society (November 2010), Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (August 2010)
  • "Evolutionary Arguments Against Moral Realism", Graduate University of Wisconsin Philosophy Conference, August 2009

• Shahin Izadi

  • "Well-Being and Childhood", June 2009, Colloquium Talk at Cal State L.A.

• 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).

• David Killoren

  • Comments on Nathan Carson, “Thick Ethical Concepts Still Cannot Be Disentangled”, 2011 APA Central Division Meeting (Spring 2011).
  • "Group Agents, Obligations, and Feasibility", 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado (Summer 2010).
  • Comments on Abe Roth, “Intention, Shared Activity, and Team Reasoning”, 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado (Summer 2010).

• Matthew Kopec

  • "Clines vs. Clades in the Race Debate", Int'l. Society for History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology, Salt Lake City, July 2011
  • "Sesardic's Race': A Philosophical Destruction of a Non-Biological Concept" Int'l. Society for History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology, Salt Lake City, July 2011
  • "It's Good to Agree: A Consequence of Fixing the Limitations of Goldman's Group Scoring Rule", Episteme Conference, Formal Meets Social Epistemology at Carnegie Mellon University, June 2011
  • "A Defense of Epistemic Permissivism", Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, April 2010
  • "The Epistemology of Self-Fulfilling Beliefs", Iowa Philosophical Association, November 2009.

• 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

  • "Stage Theory and the Platitude," Central APA, Chicago, February 2012
  • "Abortion, Time-Relative Interests, and Futures Like Ours," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, 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, Boulder, CO, August 2011
  • "Rethinking the Branch-Line Case: An Objection to Parfit," Central APA, Chicago (February 2010), Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, 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, Septemober 2008
  • "Subphysical Entities: Why We Cannot Define "Physical" as "Fundamentally Non-Mental'" Iowa Philosophical Society, 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

  • "How Not to Argue For (or Against) the Inner Sense Theory", The Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (July 2011), The Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (March 2011).
  • "The Psycho-Neural Commitment of Inner Sense Accounts of Introspection", The Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2010.
  • "A Challenge to Special-Method Accounts of First-Person Mindreading: The Typing Problem", 64th Annual Iowa Philosophical Society Conference, October 2007.

• Daniel Schneider

  • "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

• Eric Stencil

  • "Arnauld and the Doctrine of the Creation of the Eternal Truths: (1641-1648)", Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, July 2011 and South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Texas A&M, November 2010
  • "Descartes and the Mind-Body Union", Beloit College, September 2010
  • "Descartes' Argument for the Creation Doctrine", Joint Meeting of the Illinois and the Indiana Philosophical Associations, Eastern Illinois University, November 2010.
  • "Arnauld's Occasionalism", APA Central Division, February 2010 and Illinois Philosophical Association, University of Illinois, October 2009.

• 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.

• Leigh Vicens

  • "Physical Causal Closure and Non-Coincidental Mental Causation," Central States Philosophical Association, September 2011
  • "Indeterministic Freedom and Reasons for Actions," Society of Christian Philosophers (Eastern Region), March 2011

• Matt Waldren

  • "Liberal Neutrality and Educational Neutrality", Central Division APA, Colloquium on Social and Political Philosophy (2011), Midwest Regional Graduate Conference (2010), Eastern Illinois Political Philosophy Conference (read by proxy) (2010)
  • "The Empty Formalism Charge: A Reply to Wood", Notre Dame Graduate Student Conference (read by proxy), 2009
  • Comments on Keith Hyams's "Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and Consent", Central Division APA (2010)

• Brynn Welch

  • "Narrowing the Realm of Legitimate Parental Partiality", Shapiro Graduate Conference at Brown University, November 2010
  • "Narrowing the Realm of Legitimate Parental Partiality," Midwest Regional Graduate Philosophy Conference, October 2010
  • "Narrowing the Realm of Legitimate Parental Partiality," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2010
  • "In Defense of Trumping Principles," Wisconsin Philosophical Association Meeting, April 2010

• 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

  • "What Good Are Psychopaths?", Beloit College, September 2011.
  • "Responsibility (and Non-Responsibility) Proliferation", Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2011.
  • Comments on Robyn Gaier's "Psychopaths and the Refutation of Internalism", 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), Western Michigan Graduate Conference (December 2010).
  • "A Dilemma for Opponents of Moral Luck," Iowa Philosophical Society, November 2009.