Emad Atiq’s ’Law, the Rule of Law, & Goodness-Fixing Kinds‘ is forthcoming in Engaging Raz (OUP) and was invited to present the paper at Columbia Law, the University of Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy, and the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy. Other presentations included talks at the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, UCLA, Rhode Island College, Fordham, and the Ranch Metaphysics Workshop in Arizona. Emad’s contribution to CUP’s Series in the Philosophy of Law, titled ‘Contemporary Non-Positivism’ is nearing completion. In August, he co-organized the second iteration of the Cornell Workshop on Mind and Value.
Tad Brennan co-authored an article on Boethius with Peter Adamson of the LMU, Munich.
Rachana Kamtekar gave the 2023 Ackrill Memorial Lecture at Oxford University, and presented her paper, “Commensuration and currency in Plato” at several workshops. Her “What kind of responsibility is compatible with divine providence?” was published in the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility (ed. Kiener) and her “Causal pluralism in Plato and Vasubandhu” is forthcoming in Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries, eds. Carpenter and Harter (OUP 2024).
Michelle Kosch presented two new papers on Fichte’s political philosophy (at conferences in Buenos Aires and Freiburg im Briesgau) and a new paper on Beauvoir’s ethical thought (at a colloquium at Freie Universität Berlin and a conference at New York University). Her paper ‘Fichte on the Value of Rational Agency’ was published in Rethinking the Value of Humanity (Oxford University Press).
Kate Manne’s third book, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, is forthcoming with Crown in the US and Penguin in the UK. Kate was the keynote speaker for a Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies symposium at Illinois State University, gave a public lecture at Union College, and was the keynote speaker for a conference on Food Justice, Aesthetics, and Morality at Hamilton College. She presented her paper ’Moral Gaslighting’ at the Aristotelian Society meeting in London in July, and it has now been published in their Proceedings.
Shaun Nichols was appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Philosophy. In spring 2023, he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield. He also published three papers in Cognition: ‘Which kind of sameness?', ‘Ownership and convention’, and ‘No brute facts’.
Carlotta Pavese was a keynote speaker at the premiere conference in linguistic semantics, SALT 33. The paper based on that talk, ‘Arguments, Suppositions, and Conditionals’, is forthcoming in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 2023. She was also a keynote speaker at the 12th Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency Conference at Florida State University, with a talk on the role of skill in a theory of intentional action. Her experimental paper ‘The Know-How Solution to Kraemer Puzzle’ (first author, with Paul Henne) has just appeared in Cognition.
Nico Silins presented his work ad conferences in Oxford, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bled Slovenia, and New York City. The highlight was doing a talk/celebrity roast at a conference celebrating his graduate school advisor. He also finished a paper on consciousness and self-awareness for Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, and is working on a related paper on ‘Consciousness as the Lamp that Lights Itself’.
Ben Yost published ‘The Impermissibility of Execution’ in The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment, and an entry on ‘Capital Punishment’ in Springer’s Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.