Graduate Student News
Dissertation Defenses
2014/15
Josh Dohmen - "Moving toward Interaction: Epistemic Injustice, Julia Kristeva, and Disability"
Sarah Vincent - "Empathy's Significance for the Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals"
Publications
2015/16
Dan Larkin, "The Ugly Truth about Ugliness in Kant's Aesthetics," Proceedings from the 12th International Kant Congress (forthcoming).
2014/15
Sarah Vincent, “Are Chimpanzees Socially Enactive?” with Shaun Gallagher in Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Animals Minds, edited by Kristin Andrews and Jake Beck (Routledge ) (forthcoming, 2016).
Sarah Vincent, “Interspecies Intersubjectivity: On its Possibilities and Limitations” in The Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 31, no. 1 (2015).
Sarah Vincent, “The Myth of the Mental (Illness)” in Agency and Morality, edited by David Boersema (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014).
Sarah Marshall, "'One Must Imagine What One Denies’: How Sartre Imagines The Imaginary," Evental Aesthetics 3, no. 1 (2014): 16-39.
Presentations
2015/16
Bryan Kimoto will present "Between Imperceptibility and Recognition: Queering Affect, Intelligibility, and the Law" at the National Women's Studies Association in Milwaukee.
Dan Larkin will present "The Ugly Truth about Ugliness in Kant's Aesthetics" at the 12th International Kant Congress in Vienna, Austria, in September.
2014/15
Bryan Kimoto presented "Spinoza, Queerly: Rethinking Affect and the Political" at Emory's Graduate Philosophy conference in March. He will also present "'A Certain Relationship to What Exists:' The Affective Dimensions of Foucault's Critique" at the Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy in May.
Bilge Akbalik presented "A Body of Truth/A Truth of the Body" at the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy annual conference in Vancouver. Her essay was awarded the graduate student essay prize. She also presented "A Body of Truth/A Truth of the Body" at the international conference "Engaging Foucault" at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade.
Alberto Bejarano Romo presented "'Being in the Truth': The Concept of the Statement in Foucault's Archaeology" at the Narrative and Image conference at Loyola Marymount and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and "Are We There Yet?: Medicalization and the Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion in U.S. Immigration" at the Radical Philosophy conference at Stony Brook University.
Bryan Kimoto presented “Shen (身) and De (德), Embodiment, Disability: Zhuangzi and Merleau-Ponty on Perspective and Being a Body” at the Eastern APA Conference in Philadelphia and "Walking While Differenced: Queer Body Politics, Subjection, and Internarrativity" at the Philosophy of the City conference in Mexico City.
Kevin Ryan presented "From Joint Action to Group Minds: A Case Study in (Improvised) Jazz" at the Collective Intentionality IX conference in Indiana University, Bloomington in September.
Dan Larkin presented "Who's to Blame? The Possibility of Collective Responsibility in Plato's Political Philosophy" at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Conference at Fordham University and "Up to Me or Up to Them: Determining Moral Responsibility in Aristotle's Politics" at the British Society for the History of Philosophy Conference at the University of York. He will also provide commentary on Karl Aho's paper "Kierkegaard's Revision of the Aristotelian Virtue of Courage" at the Eastern APA Conference in Philadelphia.