Graduate Student Achievements

Publications

(2019). “Fine-Tuning Arguments and Biological Design Arguments: Can the Theist Have Both?” Religious Studies. DOI: 10.1017/S0034412519000374.

(2024). Between the Lines: A Philosophy of Theatre. Oxford University Press.
(2021). “In Defense of Abstract Creationism: A Recombinatorial Approach.” Philosophy and Literature. DOI: 10.1353/phl.2021.0026.
(2021). “Intrinsic-Extrinsic Properties in Theater.” Philosophy and Literature. DOI: 10.1353/phl.2021.0002.

(2018). “Undergraduate Conferences as High Impact Practices with an Impact on Gender Parity” (with Koolage, W. John). Teaching Philosophy 41 (3).

(Forthcoming). “An A Priori Refutation of the Classical Pessimistic Induction” Erkenntnis. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-024-00832-5.
(2016). “Regularity Theories Disconfirmed: A Revamped Argument and a Wager” Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1177-y.

(2023) “Helping Novice Students Understand How Logic Relates to Philosophy.” AAPT Studies in Pedagogy 8.

(2024). “Education for Robust Self-Respect in an Unjust World.” Educational Theory. DOI: 10.1111/edth.12649.

(2023). “A Resilient Punching Bag: A Defense of a Character-Evaluation Account of Blame.” Philosophia. DOI: 10.1007/s11406-022-00596-8.

(2024). “A causal theory of confirmation for Bayesians.” Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11406-022-00596-8. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04779-6.

(2025) Winner of Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies Fujimura Prize for her paper “Beyond Fairness”

“What are the Chances? Probability and Social Privilege” at the Association for Practical and Applied Ethics (February 2021).
“Not Those Auxiliary Assumptions: Evidential Evaluation and the Auxiliaries You Can’t Use” at the American Philosophical Association (February 2021).

“Theatre as Embodied Thought Experiment: Ontological Status and Aesthetic Judgment” (Keynote). Mental Artifacts and Artifactual Events: A Philosophy Conference on Things like Dreams, Performances, and Conferences. University of Genoa. Genoa, Italy (November 2025).

“Utilizing Movement in Learning Activities,” Panel presentation. “Shaking Up the Standard Lecture,” at APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL. (February 2018).

“Misconceived Track Records about Unconceived Alternatives,” accepted upon invitation to present at the Northeastern Epistemology Workshop, Boston, MA. (2026).
“The Collapse of Hume’s Everlasting Check”, accepted as a Colloquium at the APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL. (2026).
“The Collapse of Hume’s Everlasting Check”, a Symposium to be presented at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, MD. (2026).
“Misconceived Track Records about Unconceived Alternatives”, a Colloquium presented at the APA Central Division Meeting (2025).
“An A Priori Solution to the Classical Pessimistic Induction”, a Symposium presented at the APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL. (2022).

“Mitigating Curriculum Violence: Assessing Risk in Contemporary Moral Issues Curriculum Decisions” (March 2024).
“Visualizing Sources of Statistical Bias in Risk and Needs Assessment Models” (July 2024).

“Dynamical Models, Scientific Understanding, and Explanatory Unification” at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (June 2023).
“What Justifies the Model-to-Mechanism Mapping Requirement?” at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (March 2022).
“How do Functional Models in Cognitive Science Represent and Explain?” at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (July 2021).
“Does Methodological Adaptationism Presuppose a False Dichotomy?” at American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting in New Orleans, LA. (February 2021).
“On the Plausibility of a Dispositional Analysis of Intrinsic Value,” at Wisconsin Philosophical Association. (August 2020).
“Does Methodological Adaptationism Presuppose a False Dichotomy?” at Philosophy of Science Association. (November 2020).
“On the Scientific Legitimacy of Animal Beliefs” at Minnesota Philosophical Society. (October 2019).
“How Should a Physicalist Respond to the Knowledge Argument?” at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting in Vancouver, BC. (April 2019).

“How to Construct a Social Kind” at American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting (January 2026).
“How to Construct a Social Kind” at International Social Ontology Society Conference (August 2025).
“How to Construct a Social Kind” at Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers University (May 2025).
“Intersectional Social Construction” at International Social Ontology Society Conference (July 2024).
“Two Accounts of the Mutual Constitution of Race and Gender” at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (April 2024).

“Individuals, Norms, and the Basic Structure” (2023 Gaus Memorial Prize) and “Stigma, Justice, and Personal Relationships” (submitted paper) at PPE Society Seventh Annual Meeting, New Orleans. (November 2023).
“Education for Robust Self-Respect” (submitted paper) at North American Association for Philosophy & Education, Chicago. (October 2023).
“Liberal Education for Robust Self-Respect” (submitted paper) at American Educational Research Association, 2023 Annual Meeting, Chicago. (April 2023).
“When is a Revolution Justified?” (submitted symposium) at American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Denver. (February 2023).
“Social Norms as Part of the Basic Structure” (submitted poster) at PPE Society Sixth Annual Meeting, New Orleans. (November 2022).
“Family and Equality of Opportunity” (submitted paper) and Why Justify Liberal Education in U.S. Higher Education? (submitted panel) at North American Association for Philosophy & Education, Chicago. (October 2022).
“Stigma, Justice, and Personal Relationships” (submitted symposium) at American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago. (February 2021).

“What (Do) We Lose When We Automate Art(?)” at the Wisconsin Philosophical Association (April 2025).

“A New Conceptualist Picture of Kant’s Account of Empirical Intuitions,” 14^th International Kant Congress (September 2024).
“Descartes’ and Spinoza’s Accounts of Freedom: Self-Determination in the Meditations and the Ethics,” Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (November 2023).
“Descartes’ and Spinoza’s Accounts of Freedom: Self-Determination in the Meditations and the Ethics,” TEMPO Conference (May 2023).

“Understand the process of scientific discovery: the case of the network approach” at Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Vancouver, Canada. (June 1-3, 2019).
“Process, not just the product: the case of network motifs analysis”, at The 16th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague, The Czech Republic. (August 5-10, 2019).