Recent Publications and Presentations

Nathan Biebel

• "Epistemic Justification and the Ignorance Excuse," Philosophical Studies (forthcoming)

Christopher Boom

• "Justice, Coordination, and Legal Certainty: A Rawlsian Functionalist Defense of the Rule of Law," 2017 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Annual Meeting (w/ C. Van Schoelandt, Tulane University) [upcoming]
• "Respecting Human Rights: The Primacy of Non-Interference," 2016 Cambridge Doctoral Workshop in Legal Theory.
• "Comparative Constitutional Law in Dworkinian Jurisprudence," 2016 Juris Diversitas Annual Conference.
• "Beyond Persecution: In Defense of Expanding Refugee Status," 2016 London School of Economics Graduate Conference in Political Theory.
• "The Importance of the Thin Conception of the Rule of Law for International Development: A Decision-Theoretic Account," Law and Development Review 8: 2 (2015): 293-332.
• "Legal Responsibility and the Substantive Demands of the Rule of Law," 2015 Louisiana State University Graduate Philosophy Conference.
• "Reflections on the Rule of Law After NFIB v. Sebelius," in The Affordable Care Act Decision: Philosophical and Legal Implications, eds. F. Allhoff and M. Hall (New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 283 - 97.

Eric Brown

• "Blame: Strangers and the Moral Relationship," Analysis (2017) 77 (1): 10-20.
• "Hypocritical Blame and the Question of Standing," 2017 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO.
• "Strangers in the Night: Scanlon's Moral Relationship," 2015 OZSW Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• "Strangers in the Night: Scanlon's Moral Relationship," 2015 Meeting of the Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Kansas City, MO.

Zachary Calhoun

• "Kant's Other Peace," 2016 Kant Multilateral Colloquium.
• "Locke on Mother's Grief and Personal Identity," 2016 North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Derek Duplessie

• "Hephaestus' Net: Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium," 2016 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Central Division).
• "Socrates's Analysis of Comedy in Plato's Philebus," 2016 West Coast Plato Workshop.

Charlie Gustafson-Barrett

• "A Socratic Epithet: on Plato's Ion", 2017 American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division).
• "Dialogos and Soliloquy: Thinking Through Ion and Hamlet", 2017 American Political Science Association.
• "Hamlet: the Tragedy of Philosophy," 2016 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Pacific Division).
• "A Platonic Reading of Hamlet," talk at Sarah Lawrence College, 2015

Marcus Hunt

• "Reasonable Disagreement and Real-World Disagreement," 2017 Louisiana State University Graduate Philosophy Conference.
• "Megalopsychia Recrowned," 2017 University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Student Conference.
• "Occupation and the Right to Democratic Self-Government," 2017 Mississippi Philosophical Association Conference.
• "Kant's 'Teleological Power of Judgement," 2016 Lehigh University Philosophy Conference.
• "Schechtman's Person Life View: Conventionalist Worries," 2016 Louisiana State University Graduate Conference.

Julian Katz

• "Kant's 'Bund': A Voluntary Reading," 2017 Long Island Philosophical Society Conference.

Alexander Limanowski

• "Lucretius on Eros", 2017 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Central Division).
• "Pain, Wonder, and Fear in Lucretius," 2016 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Central Division).

Kelly Martin

• "On the Problematic Love of Truth in Hume" 2017 American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division.
• "Dialogue with a Skeptic: Hume's Fourth Essay on Happiness" The Hume Society 44th Annual Conference.
• "Touch and the Medium in De Anima, Book II," 2016 World Congress Conference.
• "Nature and Politics in Marx's 'The German Ideology," 2016 Southern Political Science Association Conference.
• "Aiming at Virtue: Courage and Moderation in Plato's Laws, Bk. 1", 2014 Southern Political Science Association.

Travis Mulroy

• "Seeing Red: On the Significance of Thrasymachus' Supposed Blush in Plato's Republic," 2016 Association of Core Texts and Courses Conference on Tradition and Renewal.
• "The Beautiful Things are Difficult: Plato's Hippias Major," 2014 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Eastern Division).

April Olsen

• "From Anger to Emulation: Aristotle's Rhetoric Book II", 2017 Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle.
• "Natural Law in Aristotle's Rhetoric", 2017 American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division).
• "Aristotle on the Movement of Pity, Indignation, and Envy in the Soul," 2016 Association of Core Texts and Courses Conference on Tradition and Renewal.
• "Enthymematic Maxims in Aristotle's Rhetoric," 2016 Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle.
• "Aristotle on the Passions," 2016 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Central Division).

Allen Ray

• "Rhetoric and Political Identity in Plato's Menexenus", 2017 American Philosophical Association (Central Division).
• "The Matter with Music: Rousseau's Essay on the Origins of Music," 2016 Association of Core Texts and Courses Conference on Tradition and Renewal.

Gabrielle Stanton

• "Hobbes Sovereign as God's Lieutenant", 2017 American Philosophical Association (Central Division).
• "Kant on Freedom and Tradition," 2016 Association of Core Texts and Courses Conference on Tradition and Renewal.
• "A Kantian Argument for Liberal Education" 2014 St. John's College 50th Anniversary Conference on Liberal Education.

Nathan Stout

• "Salience, Imagination, and Moral Luck," Philosophical Papers (forthcoming)
• "Assembling an Army: Considerations for Just War Theory." Journal of Global Ethics , Vol. 12, No. 2. (2016): 204-221.
• "Conversation, Responsibility, and Autism Spectrum Disorder." Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 29, No. 7. (2016): 1015-1028.
• "Autism, Episodic Memory, and Moral Exemplars." Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 29, No. 6. (2016): 858-870.
• "Reasons-Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility: the Case of Autism." Journal of Ethics, Vol. 20, No. 4. (2016): 401-418.
• "Blame Without Relationships: A Challenge for Scanlon," 2016 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Central Division).
• "Activity, Inactivity, and Production: Roberts' Commerce Clause Argument." In The Affordable Care Act Decision: Philosophical and Legal Implications, 117-131. Edited by Fritz Allhoff and Mark Hall. New York: Routledge, 2014.

Daniel Tigard

• "Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation Trial: A Philosophical Justification for Non-Voluntary Enrollment," Bioethics (forthcoming)
• "Judicial Discretion and the Problem of Dirty Hands," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19:1 (2016): 177-192.

Mary Townsend

• The Woman Question in Plato's Republic (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
• "Housecleaning and Heidegger: A Defense of the Thoughtfulness of Domestic Work," The Hedgehog Review, Institute of Advanced Culture Studies at the University of Virginia (2016).
• "Women as Readers of Plato's Republic: from Axiothea to Julia Ward Howe," 2016 Association of Core Texts and Courses Conference on Tradition and Renewal.
• "The Woman Drama in Republic V," 2015 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Eastern Division)
• "Plato on the Origin of Cities: The Socratic Methodology of the City of Pigs," Seminar on Articulating Political Philosophy and Anthropological Theory, Method, and Evidence at Tulane University, 2015.

Paul Wilford

• "Hegel's Account of Revealed Religion in the Phenomenology," 2016 American Philosophical Association Meeting (Eastern Division)
• "Review of Hegel's Theory of Responsibility by Mark Alznauer," Review of Metaphysics (September 2014)

Franklin Worrell

• "Negotiations After Hegemony: Buffy and Gender," Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies (2016).
• (with A. E. Denham). "Fragments of the Self: Dissociation, Agency, and Integration," in Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections and New Perspectives, Edited by Daniel Moseley and Gary Gala (Routledge, 2016).
• (with A.E. Denham), "Identity and Agency in Mulholland Drive," in Mulholland Drive, Edited by Zina Giannopoulou (Routledge 2013).