Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy
Joe Ervin (Academic Success Center), Dave Beisecker and Jasmin Özel (both Philosophy) presented their paper, "The St. Louis Hegelians and the Institutionalization of Democratic Education," at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society. The paper urges a reappraisal of the reception of Hegelian philosophy in 19th-century America…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book, Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice, to the Western Michigan University department of philosophy. The talk was organized by the WMU chapter of Minorities and Philosophy. She also presented her paper “Filosofía infantil en tiempos de pandemia: Reconsiderando,…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Revisiting Relational Pandemic Ethics in Light of the COVID-19 Abortion Bans in the United States" in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Crossing Borders for Abortion as a Feminist Challenge to Border Theory" at the Exile, Belonging and Place symposium organized by the University of Louisville Commonwealth Center for Humanities & Society.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Travel for Abortion as a Form of Migration" in Essays in Philosophy.
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented a paper on grief and self-knowledge at the central division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The paper was part of an authors-meets-critics session on Grief: A Philosophical Guide by Michael Cholbi of the University of Edinburgh.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited talk titled "Why Ghosts Aren't So Spooky: The Ethics of Indirect 'Relationship' Dissolution" for the University of Colorado, Boulder's Center Talk series (hosted by the CU Philosophy Department).
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Replies to My Interlocutors" in Philosophy Today, which featured a symposium on her book Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "COVID-19 in El Paso: A Spectacle of Injustice" in the Latin American Perspectives blog.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was a keynote speaker for an online conference on pandemic pedagogy organized by the Escuela Normal Primaria "Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen" in Tabasco, Mexico. Her presentation was "Filosofía Infantil en Tiempos de Pandemia: Reconsiderando, Con Urgencia, La Naturaleza de Una Comunidad de…
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published a paper, "Re-defending Feline Liberty: a Response to Fischer," in Acta Analytica. This paper is Abbate's second defense of the claim that cat guardians, under certain conditions, ought to provide outdoor access to their cats, and it responds to recent objections presented to her first defense of free-roaming…
Maurice A. Finocchiaro (Philosophy) published the article “Vincenzo Galilei’s Musicology and Galileo’s Science: Methodological Comparison and Contrast” in the latest issue of the journal Isis. Founded in 1912, and named after an ancient Egyptian goddess, this is the official journal of the History of Science Society. The article discusses the…