Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) and co-author Amirouche Moktefi (University of Talinn, Estonia) had their paper, "John Cook Wilson's 'Hanging Plants': A Contribution to the History of Early Logic Trees," published in Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, a volume in the Springer book series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Artificial…
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published an invited guest post titled, "A Philosopher’s Take on Effective (Non-Egoic) Activism," on the American Philosophical Association's (APA's) public philosophy blog. This post discusses the importance of using moral education during social justice activism, especially animal rights activism.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented a paper titled "On Virtuous Loving Relationships with Animals" at the fifteenth annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, hosted by the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published a chapter titled "Animal Ethics" in the Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare. This chapter discusses competing accounts of moral status and ethical theory as they relate to nonhuman animals.
Amy Reed-Sandoval's (Philosophy) research on abortion ethics was recently discussed in the French magazine Philosophie Magazine.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) recently was appointed to the editorial board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, where she will serve as a section editor for Latin American and Iberian philosophy.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Précis: Socially Undocumented," and "Replies to My Interlocutors" in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, which published a symposium on her book Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a virtual, interactive presentation, "Teaching Philosophy to Migrant and Border-Town Children," as part of the Unbordering Migration in the Americas series at the University of Rochester.
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently delivered the Presidential Address for the New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Association at Baylor University. The address was “Truth and the Topology of Assertion.”
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Are Exit Controls for Women Migrant Workers Justified in Theory? A Response to Patti Lenard," commentary for The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas Project, Migration Policy Center, European University Institute.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a virtual keynote presentation, "Pregnant and Socially Undocumented: Mujeres Fronterizas en Resistencia," for an event organized by the Latin American Graduate Students Association at the University of Kansas.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) received a Fulbright García Robles grant for 2022-23. She will use her Fulbright grant to co-develop a pre-college philosophy program at a teacher training college in Hidalgo, Mexico. She also will undertake a collaborative research project that seeks to incorporate local Indigenous philosophies into pre-college…