Emad Atiq published "Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Value" in Synthese, "The Uncertain Foundations of Public Law Theory" (with Jud Mathews) in Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, and "The Philosophy of Contract Law" (with Daniel Markovits) in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Two papers came out in print in 2020: "There are No Easy Counterexamples to Legal Anti-positivism," in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and "Supervenience, Repeatability, and Expressivism" in Nous.
Tad Brennan gave the Ackrill Memorial Lecture at Oxford University in 2020 and published a book chapter, “Reading Plato’s Mind”. He submitted two papers, "Plato on the Object of Desire" and "The Role of Magnitude in the Emotions in de Finibus" and gave two talks, "Hard-hearted Peripatetics: A Defense of Literalism about touch" and "The Unexamined Life, Enlightenment, and Vaccines."
Charles Brittain gave the Michael Frede Memorial Lecture at the British Academy in Athens, “Protagorean hermeneutics” in 2021 and worked on concept formation in Hellenistic philosophy.
Professor Emerita Gail Fine published Essays in Ancient Epistemology (Oxford University Press) and she also published three articles: 'Knowledge and Truth in the Greatest Difficulty Argument: Parmenides', International Journal for the Study of Skepticism; 'Epistêmê and Doxa, Knowledge and Belief, in the Phaedo', in Themes in Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic Philosophy: Keeling Lectures 2011-2018; ' An Epistemological Troika' Methexis 33.
Harold Hodes published two papers in the Journal of Philosophical Logic “One-step modal logics, intuitionistic and classical: part 1”; and “One-step modal logics, intuitionistic and classical: part 2”.
Karolina Hübner published “Representation and Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza’s Philosophy” in the Journal of the History of Philosophy and “Spinoza on the Limits of Explanation” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Her edited volume, Human is forthcoming in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series. She has a couple more publications forthcoming: "Spinoza on Expression and Grounds of Intelligibility", with Robert Matyasi, in Philosophical Quarterly, and "Spinoza on Knowledge and Mind" in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Rachana Kamtekar published ‘Weaving together Natural Courage and Moderation’ in Dimas, Lane, Meyer (eds.), Plato’s Statesman (Oxford University Press); (with Raj Anderson, Shaun Nichols and David Pizarro), ‘“False positive” emotions, responsibility, and moral character’, in Cognition; and a Précis and Response to Critics for a book symposium on her (2017) Plato’s Moral Psychology in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Arc Kocurek published “Does Chance Undermine Would?” in Mind, and (with Carlotta Pavese) “The Dynamics of Argumentative Discourse” in Journal of Philosophical Logic.
Michelle Kosch published ‘Fichte’s Theory of Drives,’ in Journal of the History of Philosophy and ‘Fichte on summons and self-consciousness,’ in Mind. She joined the editorial board of JHP and presented a new paper on recognition in Hegel and Fichte at a number of venues, including as a keynote at the Australian Association of Philosophy.
Scott MacDonald's “Memoria in Augustine’s Philosophy of Mind” will appear in Res Philosophica, and “Augustine's Early, Abandoned Proof for the Immortality of the Soul,” Philosophic Exchange. He delivered two public lectures on Augustine’s Confessions under the aegis of the Croghan Distinguished Professorship at Williams College and two public zoom lectures for international conferences on Augustine's Soliloquia. In 2020 and 2021 he hosted the annual Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, a major international scholarly event on Zoom.
Kate Manne published her second book, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, in August 2020, which was judged one of the year's 15 best books by The Atlantic. Manne also wrote some pieces about feminist topics in her home country of Australia and gave her talk "What is Gaslighting?" for the "All this Rising: The Humanities in the Next Ten Years" lecture series at Stanford University.
Julia Markovits published (with Kenneth Walden) “Kantian Constructivism,” in the Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason, ed. by Ruth Chang and Kurt Sylvan, and “Normativity from Rationality—A Comment on John Broome”, in Australasian Philosophical Review, is forthcoming 2021.
Andrei Marmor published ‘Privacy in Social Media’, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics, C. Veliz ed., (Oxford University Press) and is revising his book Foundations of Institutional Reality for OUP.
Shaun Nichols published Rational Rules (Oxford University Press), the culmination of many years of research on how we learn moral rules. Nichols also was awarded a grant (Templeton Foundation, $250,000) to study the extent to which the principle of sufficient reason is presupposed in people across cultures.
Carlotta Pavese published (with Arc Kocurek) ‘The Dynamics of Argumentative Discourse’ forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical Logic, ‘Practical Knowledge without Luminosity’ (with Bob Beddor) in Mind, ‘Lewis Carrolls’ Regress and the Presuppositional Structure of Arguments’ in Linguistics and Philosophy, and ‘Practical Concepts and Productive Reasoning’ in Synthese.
David Shoemaker published “The Forgiven,” in Michael McKenna, Dana Nelkin, and Brandon Warmke, eds., Forgiveness and Its Moral Dimensions (Oxford University Press), and (with Manuel Vargas) “Moral Torch Fishing: A Signaling Theory of Blame,” in Nous.
Nico Silins, as an editor of the Philosophical Review, assessed hundreds of submissions, as well as publishing a couple of papers of his own: "The Evil Demon in the Lab” in Synthese, and "Reading the Bad News about Our Minds" in Philosophical Issues.
Will Starr published “Conditional and Counterfactual Logic”, in M. Knauff & W. Spohn (eds.), Handbook of Rationality (MIT), “A Preference Semantics for Imperatives” in Semantics & Pragmatics, and (with Sarah Murray) “The Structure of Communicative Acts”, in. Linguistics & Philosophy.
Adjunct Professor Ben Yost published a co-edited volume (with Brandon Hogan, Michael Cholbi, and Alex Madva) The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press) on the shelves this month! Yost’s chapter, “Penal Leniency for Black Offenders” also appears in this volume.
Klarman Fellow Toni Alimi gave a talk at the American Academy of Religion on John Calvin, Plagues, and Political Theology and another talk at the Society of Christian Ethics on realism about aesthetic and ethical judgments. His current research, on Augustine and slavery, is the subject of his talk, co-sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies, the Political Theory Workshop, and the Arete Initiative of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, at Duke University.
Klarman Fellow James Walsh won the Sacks Prize from the Association for Symbolic Logic for “the most outstanding dissertation in mathematical logic worldwide.”