Rebecca Caithamer will be presenting her paper “Aristotle’s non-Aristotelian account of gender” at the 2026 Canadian Aristotle Society conference this October.
Jake successfully defended his dissertation “The Belief-Independence of Perception: An Essay on the Mind’s Architecture”, on August 13, 2026. Abstract: This dissertation argues that perception is belief-independent, that this property distinguishes perception from…
Tyler Sproule successfully defended his dissertation “Meaningful Beings: An Enactive Account of Meaning”, on July 27, 2026. Abstract: A growing number of philosophers have come to emphasize an important distinction between questions…
Charlie Allen was a son, brother, cousin, nephew and friend to many. Charlie had a smile that drew you in and left an indelible impression on everyone he met. He was a student…
9/29 M Folescu (University of Missouri, Columbia) 10/13 Luvell Anderson (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) 11/10 Veronica Gomez Sanchez (University of California Berkeley) 2/9 Agnes Callard (University of Chicago) 3/30 John Schwenkler (University…
Alex Denley’s paper “Towards an Anti-Oppressive Resolution to Interpsychic Transference” was just accepted to the “Justice in an Unequal World” philosophy graduate conference at the University of Calgary.
The Podcast discusses Anthony Laden’s Networks of Trust. The Podcast and book are linked below. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo238131432.html
The Beautiful Soul in Schiller and Hegel Abstract: This dissertation uses Friedrich Schiller’s description of the “beautiful soul” to develop and defend an account of moral beauty, according to which a person who…