Recent Faculty Achievements

Harry Brighouse

(2025) Elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
(2023) Presented with Excellence in Teaching Award by the UW-Madison chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
(Ongoing) Director of the Center for Ethics and Education (http://ethicsandeducation.wceruw.org/)

Emily Fletcher

(2022–27) Vilas Distinguished Achievement Award.
(2020–22) Vilas Associate Award
(2022) “Cosmology and Human Nature in the Timaeus,” in The Cambridge Companion to Plato,
2nd edition, 464-492.
(2022) “Pleasure, Judgment and the Function of the Painter-Scribe Analogy,” Archiv für
Geschichte der Philosophie.
(2021) “Women and Childrearing in the Republic,” in Women’s Perspectives on Ancient and
Medieval Philosophy (Springer), 91-99.
(2020) Review of Rachana Kamtekar, Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided
Soul, and the Desire for the Good. Philosophical Review 129.4, 643–46.

Jimmy Goodrich

(2025) “Seize the Means of Prediction!: Data, Domination, and Antitrust.” Philosophy & Public Affairs
(2024) “No Work for a Theory of Permitting Reasons.” Analysis.
(2023) “In Defense of Moderation: Culpable Ignorance and the Structure of Exculpation.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 25 (2) 227-250.
(2022) Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Oxford: OUP, edited w/ Tim Campbell, Jeff McMahan, and Ketan Ramakrishnan.
(2021) Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Oxford: OUP, edited w/ Tim Campbell, Jeff McMahan, and Ketan Ramakrishnan.
(2021) “Separating Persons.” In Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit.
(2021) “Do We Own Our Data?: The Finders-Keepers Ethics of the Cyber Commons.” In P. Aligica, G. Choi, and V. Storr (eds.), Culture, Sociality and Morality: New Applications of Mainline Political Economy, Rowman & Littlefield.

Paula Gottlieb

(2022) Aristotle’s Ethics: Nicomachean and Eudemian Themes, Elements in Ethics. Cambridge University Press.
(2022) “Virtue of Character in Aristotle’s Nicomachean versus Eudemian Ethics.” for Selected Essays from the 2021 Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece. Parnassos Press.
(2021) Aristotle on Thought and Feeling. Cambridge University Press.
(2020) “Aristotle on Self-Knowledge.” In Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Eighth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, ed. Fiona Leigh. Oxford University Press, chapter 6.
Entry on Aristotle on Non-Contradiction for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-noncontradiction)

Paul Kelleher

(Forthcoming). “Temporal Discounting and Climate Change,” in Nina Emery (ed.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time.
(2025)The Social Cost of Carbon: Ethics and the Limits of Climate Change Economics. Oxford University Press.
(2021) “Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon” (with Gernot Wagner, David Anthoff, Maureen Cropper, Simon Dietz, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Ben Groom, Frances C. Moore, and James H. Stock). Nature 590: 548-550.

Annina Loets

(Forthcoming) “Uneventful: Event semantics for ‘qua’.” Philosophical Perspectives.
(2024) “Intersectional Disadvantage.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 102(4): 857-878.
(2024) “Persons.” In Koslicki & Raven (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy, 333-346.
(2022) “Agentive Duality Reconsidered” (with Julia Zakkou). Philosophical Studies, 179(12): 3771-3789.
(2022) “Choice Points for a Theory of Normality.” Mind, 131(521): 159-191.
(2022) “Die allgemeinste objektive Möglichkeit. Replik auf Vetter.” Philosophisches Jahrbuch.
(2021). “Qua Qualification.” Philosophers’ Imprint 21(27): 1-24.
(2021). “Qua Objects and their Limits.” Mind 130(518):617-638.

John Mackay

(2023). “Should Past-as-Modal Theorists Also Be Past-as-Past Theorists?” Forthcoming in D. Over & S. Kaufmann (Eds.), Conditionals: Logic, Linguistics, and Psychology. Palgrave MacMillan.
(2023). “Counterfactual Epistemic Scenarios.” Noûs 57.1, 188–208.

Farid Masrour

(Forthcoming) “Consciousness and Unity: Groundwork for a Comprehensive Account.” Oxford Studies In Consciousness, ed. Uriah Kriegel. Oxford University Press.
(2025). The Relational View of Perception: New Philosophical Essays (edited with Ori Beck). Routledge.
(2024) “Propositional Content and the Epistemic Role of Experience.” In Ori Beck & Miloš Vuletić (eds.), Empirical Reason and Sensory Experience, pp. 73–76.
(2020) “On the Possibility of Hallucinations.” Mind.

Alexander Meehan

(Forthcoming) “An accuracy-based approach to quantum conditionalization” (with Jer Alex Steeger). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
(2022) “A New Problem for Quantum Mechanics.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 73 (3): 631-661.
(2022) “Kolmogorov Conditionalizers Can Be Dutch Booked” (w/ Snow Zhang). The Review of Symbolic Logic 15 (3): 722-757.
(2021) “States of Ignorance and Ignorance of States: Examining the Quantum Principal Principle.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 90: 160-167.
(2021). “You Say You Want a Revolution: Two Notions of Probabilistic Independence.” Philosophical Studies 178 (10): 3319-3351.
(2021). “The Borel-Kolmogorov Paradox Is Your Paradox Too” (w/ Snow Zhang). Philosophy of Science 88 (5): 971-984.
(2021). “Clarifying the New Problem for Quantum Mechanic: Reply to Vaidman.” Foundations of Physics 51 (1): 1-6.

James Messina

(2025–2026) Resident Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities
(2021) “The Content of Kant’s Pure Category of Substance and Its Use on Phenomena and Noumena.” Philosophers’ Imprint 21 (29).
(2021) “The Marriage of Metaphysics and Geometry in Kant’s Prolegomena.” In Peter Thiekle (ed.), Cambridge Critical Guide to Kant’s Prolegomena, Cambridge.
(2020) “Morals From Rationality Alone? Some Doubts” (with David Wiens). Politics, Philosophy and Economics 19 (3): 248-273.

Steven Nadler

(Forthcoming) Spinoza, Atheist. Princeton University Press.
(Forthcoming) The Collected Works of Spinoza, vol. 3 (ed. and trans. with Edwin Curley ). Princeton University Press.
(2024) The Good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm. Oxford University Press.
(2024) Why Read Maimonides Today? Cambridge University Press.
(2022)The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World. University of Chicago Press. Named by The New Yorker as one of “the best books of 2022.”
(2021) named Vilas Research Professor
(2020) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(2018–) Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities
(2018–) President, Board of Directors, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Alexander Roberts

(Forthcoming) “Necessity in the Highest Degree.” Journal of Philosophical Logic.
(2024) “Anti-Haecceitism and Indiscernibility. Analysis 84: 94-105.
(2023) “A New Challenge for Contingentists.” Philosophical Studies 180: 2457-2484.
(2023) “Is Identity Non-Contingent?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 106: 3-34.
(2022) “From Physical to Metaphysical Necessity.” Mind 131: 1216-1246.
(2021) “Two Morals about a Modal Paradox.” Synthese 198: 9873-9896.
(2020) “Relative Necessity and Propositional Quantification.” Journal of Philosophical Logic 49: 703–726.

Sam Roberts

(2024). “Truth and Finite Conjunction” (with Leon Horsten and Guanglong Luo). Mind, 133 (532): 1121-1135.
(2024) “No Easy Road to Impredicative Definabilism” (with Øystein Linnebo). Philosophia Mathematica, 32(1): 21-33.
(2023) “Hume’s Principle, Bad Company, and the Axiom of Choice” (with Stewart Shapiro). The Review of Symbolic Logic, 16 (4) 1158-1176.
(2022) “Pluralities as Nothing Over and Above.” Journal of Philosophy, 119 (8) 405-424.
(2020) “Classless.” Analysis, 80(1), 76-83.

Russ Shafer-Landau

(2024) named Elliott R. Sober Professor of Philosophy
(2024) The Moral Universe. With John Bengson and Terence Cuneo, co-authors. Oxford University Press.
(2023)The Fundamentals of Ethics, 6th ed. Oxford University Press.
(2023)The Ethical Life, 6th ed. Oxford University Press.
(2022) Philosophical Methodology: From Data to Theory. With John Bengson and Terence Cuneo. Oxford University Press.
(2021) Living Ethics, 2ed. Oxford University Press.
(2021) President, American Philosophical Association (Central).
Organizer, MadMeta
Director, Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics

Jesse Steinberg

(2023) “’But not the music’: psychopathic traits and difficulties recognising and resonating with the emotion in music” (with R. C. Plate, C. Jones, S. Zhao, M. W. Flum, G. Daley, N. Corbett, C. Neumann, and R. Waller. Cognition and Emotion 37 (4): 748-762.
(2023) “Belief, Inner Assent, and Cognitive Phenomenology” (with Alan M. Steinberg).

Review of Metaphysics 76 (4): 703-724.

Robert Streiffer

(2025) “Digital Platforms, Privacy, and the Ethics of Wildlife Information Sharing” (with Alan Rubel and Martin Kaehrle). Philosophy and Technology 38 (1): 1-29.
(2020) “Utilitarianism about animals and the moral significance of use” (with David Killoren). Philosophical Studies 177 (4): 1043-1063. 2020.

Mike Titelbaum

(Forthcoming) “Epistemic Standards” (with Laura Callahan). In Attitude in Philosophy. S. Goldberg and M. Walker eds. Oxford University Press.
(Forthcoming) “Disagreement and Permissiveness.” In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement. M. Baghramian, J. A. Carter, and R. Rowland eds. Routledge.
(Forthcoming) “Normative Modeling.” In Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Contemporary Reader. J. Horvath, S. Koch, and M. Titelbaum eds. The PhilPapers Foundation. 22pp.
(2023–2028) Kellett mid-career award
(2022) “Self-Locating Beliefs” (with Andy Egan).The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
(2022) Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology. 2 vols. Oxford University Press.
(2020) “The Principal Principle does not Imply the Principle of Indifference, Because Conditioning on Biconditionals is Counterintuitive” (with Casey Hart). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71: 621–632.

Peter Vranas

(2024) “Beyond ought-implies-can: Impersonal obligatoriness implies historical contingency.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 29, no. 1, 29-61.
(2022) “Natural deduction for first-order pure imperative logic.” Logique et Analyse 258, 167-188.
(2018-2023) Kellett mid-career award.

Aja Watkins

(2024). “The Adequacy of purposes for data: a paleoecological case study.” Synthese.
(2024). “When are Fossils Data?” Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 16 (2).
(2024). “Sex eliminativism” (with Marina DiMarco). Biology and Philosophy 40 (1): 1-30. 2024.
(2024) “What is Philosophy of the Geosciences?” (with Miguel Ohnesorge). Philosophy Compass 19 (2).
(2024). “Using Paleoclimate Analogues to Inform Climate Projections.” Perspectives on Science 32 (4): 415-459.
(2023). “Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 102 (C): 31-44.
(2024) Vilas Early Career Investigator Award.
(2022). “Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking” (with Bocchi, F., Bokulich, A., Castillo Brache, L., Grand-Pierre, G.). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
(2021). “The epistemic value of the living fossils concept.” Philosophy of Science, 88(5), 1221-1233.
(2021). “Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 90:285–297.
(2021). “Reevaluating the grandmother hypothesis.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43(3), 103.
(2021). “Development and microbiology.” Biology & Philosophy, 36(4), 34.
(2020). “Testing for phenotypic plasticity.” Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 13, 1–23.
(2020). “Pathogen versus microbiome causation in the holobiont” (with Bocchi, F.). Biology & Philosophy, 35(1), 7.

Bruno Whittle

(Forthcoming) “The Grounding of Truth.” The Journal of Philosophy.
(2023–25) Vilas Associate Award
(2022) “The iterative solution to paradoxes for propositions.” Philosophical Studies 180 (5-6): 1623-1650.
(2021). “Mathematical anti-realism and explanatory structure.” Synthese 199 (3-4): 6203-6217.
(2021). “Exceptional Logic.” Review of Symbolic Logic 14, 85–111.
(2020). “Ontological Pluralism and Notational Variance.” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 12, 58–72.

Annette Zimmermann

(2024) Vilas Early Career Investigator Award
(2022) “Proceed with Caution” (with Lee-Stronach C.). Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52 (1): 6-25.
(2021) American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op-Ed Award
(2021) Featured on the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” list.
(2020) Winner of the Hastings Center’s 2020 David Roscoe Award for an Early-Career Essay on Science, Ethics, and Society.