Emad Atiq is working on four new papers: one on acquaintance knowledge and moral objectivity; a second on the nature and significance of ‘pain-sharing’ (co-authored with Matt Duncan); a third on how meta-ethical assumptions inform constitutional interpretation; and a fourth on how best to formulate meta-ethical expressivism. He will be presenting work at various venues over the next few months, including in New Orleans, New York and Los Angeles. He continues to make progress on his manuscript titled Contemporary Non-Positivism, under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Tad Brennan co-taught a seminar at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität (Munich), presented a paper at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, published a new paper, ‘Cephalus, Patêr tou Logou,’ in Phronesis, and had a paper on Stoic moral psychology accepted for an Oxford University Press volume.
Rachana Kamtekar published a new paper, ‘Two Concepts of Cause in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy’ (with Shaun Nichols), in Phronesis; delivered a keynote at the Women* in Ancient Philosophy Conference at the Humboldt Universität Berlin; and presented her research in talks in Geneva and at Notre Dame.
Arc Kocurek presented his research in Singapore, Lisbon and Warsaw, and has two papers forthcoming: ‘The Logic of Hyperlogic. Part A’ in Review of Symbolic Logic and ‘What Topic Continuity Problem?’ in Inquiry.
Michelle Kosch has presented work, including the first papers to come out of her book project on Simone de Beauvoir, at New York University, Universität Potsdam, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bryn Mawr, Notre Dame and UNC Chapel Hill.
Kate Manne’s third book, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, is now forthcoming from Crown (in the US) and Penguin (in the UK) in January 2024. Professor Manne was shortlisted for the Advance Global Australian Awards 2022 in the leadership category, and invited to give the Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture at St. Lawrence University and do a mini-residency there. She has recently presented work at UC Berkeley, USC, and the College of the Holy Cross.
Andrei Marmor wrote a paper (‘Grounding Art’) about the metaphysical grounding of artworks and the institutional theory of art. His book, Foundations of Institutional Reality, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Shaun Nichols, in addition to co-authoring ‘Two Concepts of Cause in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy’ with Rachana Kamtekar (see above), published ‘Moral learning and moral representations’ in Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology and (with J. Systma) ‘The meta-wisdom of crowd’ in Synthese. His paper (with J. Thrasher), ‘What does labor mixing get you?’ is forthcoming in Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy.
Carlotta Pavese published ‘Practical Knowledge First’ in Synthese and has two further papers forthcoming: ‘Intelligence and Regress,’ in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, and ‘The Epistemology of Skills,’ forthcoming in Blackwell Companion to Epistemology. She was invited to deliver a keynote at SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory), the premiere conference in semantics in the USA, in 2023.
David Shoemaker published ‘The Trials and Tribulations of Tom Brady: Self-Blame, Self-Talk, Self-Flagellation’ in Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility, ‘Personal Identity’ (co-authored with Kevin Tobia) in Oxford Handbook on Moral Psychology, ‘Disordered, Disregarded, Disabled, Dismissed: Immorality and Exemptions from Accountability’ in Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions, and ‘Response-Dependent Theories of Responsibility’ in Oxford Handbook on Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press), and presented his research in talks in Ithaca, Buffalo and Portland.
Nico Silins completed a project about memory and consciousness, exploring the contemporary relevance of the classical Indian philosopher Dignāga. He plans to present this work at a conference in Montreal, and expand it into a broader project about whether consciousness can be understood in terms of self-consciousness.
Ben Yost published ‘Lowering the Boom: A Brief for Penal Leniency’ in Criminal Law & Philosophy.