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.

Charlie Gustafson-Barrett

• "The  Logos of Agency (or the Agency of Logos): on Plato's Ion," Review of Metaphysics, Spring 2019.
• "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).

Marcus Hunt

• “Conciliationism and the Philosophy of ‘As If’,” 2018 Louisiana State University Graduate Philosophy Conference.
• “Thankfulness, Morality, and the Divine,” 2018 Perspectives on Faith – Boston College Philosophy Graduate Conference.
• “Divorcing Occupation from Just War Theory,” 2018 New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society Conference.
• “A Critique of Fabre on National Right,” 2017 Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference.
• “Strawson, Rawls, and the Political Attitude,” 2017 Alabama Philosophical Society.
• "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

• "On the Difficulty of Beautiful Things: Political Virtue and Wisdom in Plato's Hippias Major," Ancient Philosophy, Spring 2019.
• "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

• “Locke’s Appeal to Heaven.” 2018 American Philosophical Association (Central Division).
• “Between Two Masters: Hobbes’s Views on International Relations.” In Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy, edited by Shane Courtland, Routledge 2017.
• “Religion in the State of Nature: Hobbes’s Image of Trust as the Basis of Political Life.” 2017 Association of Core Texts and Courses Annual Conference.
• "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.

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.

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).