Emad Atiq published "Legal Positivism and the Moral Origins of Legal Systems" in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and "Reasonable Moral Doubt” in the NYU Law Review; and has a manuscript titled “Contemporary Non-Positivism” under contract with Cambridge University Press for their Elements in the Philosophy of Law series. In May, he organized a Mind and Value conference on the topic of “Acquaintance” and presented a paper entitled “Knowledge by Acquaintance and Impartial Virtue”
Charles Brittain’s translation of Michael Frede’s ‘Doxographical, philosophical and historical forms of the history of philosophy was published in Ierodiakonou (ed.) The historiography of philosophy (OUP 2022).
John Doris’ state-of-the-art Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (co-edited with Manuel Vargas) was published. Doris also published “The Limits of Virtue: Moral Psychology and Military Conduct.” (ed. Barrett, Moral Virtue and Moral Injury. Naval Institute Press); and, with Dominic Murphy, “Skepticism about Evil: Atrocity and the Limits of Responsibility.” (eds. Nelkin and Pereboom, The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility. Oxford University Press 2022); and with R. Woolfolk, S. Hanna and R. Wasserman, “Attributions of Responsibility for Military Misconduct: Constraint, Identification, and Severity.” (Military Psychology 33).
Harold Hodes published “Cut-Conditions on Sets of Multiple-Alternative Inferences” in Mathematical Logic Quarterly, Vol. 68.
Karolina Hübner presented new work on 17th century philosopher Margaret Cavendish’s metaphysics of mind at Princeton and at a New Narratives conference. Her piece on Spinoza on the luminosity of ideas is forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the new Journal of Spinoza Studies. A session at the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division meeting was devoted to Hübner’s edited collection, Human (OUP 2022).
Rachana Kamtekar published ‘Experience and Preconception in Epicurus’ Refutation of Determinism’ in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy vol. 60; ‘Plato: Moral Psychology’ (in Doris and Vargas eds. Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology); ‘Law in Plato’s Political Thought’ (with Rachel Singpurwalla, in Ebrey and Kraut eds. The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed.); and ‘Plato and the Pleonectic Conception of Human Nature’ in Human (ed. Hübner, Oxford University Press 2022).
Arc Kocurek’s paper, “The Logic of Hyperlogic. Part A: Foundations” was accepted to Review of Symbolic Logic.
Kate Manne published an op-ed in the New York Times about diet culture (Diet Culture is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral) and is working on a book provisionally entitled Cut to Size: The Violence of Fatphobia. Her paper “What is Gaslighting?” will be published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
Julia Markovits gave a talk on genetic engineering and slippery slope arguments at the A&S Arts Unplugged event this spring, “The Science of the Very Very Small”. Markovits, together with Emeritus philosopher Terry Irwin and Cornell PhD David Brink, are working on publishing Nick Sturgeon’s collected papers (now under contract with Oxford University Press).
Andrei Marmor prepared his new book, Foundations of Institutional Reality (now in press at OUP), and wrote “Interpretation in law and elsewhere: meaning, object and truth", a lecture to be delivered at the University of Vienna, as well as the opening lecture for the German IVR conference, on the nature of normative powers.
Shaun Nichols was awarded a small grant from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences to begin a project on the psychological basis for private property. His latest paper on Buddhist philosophy of mind with Monima Chadha, "Self-Control without a Self", is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Carlotta Pavese published Reasoning and Presuppositions in Philosophical Topics 49, and her paper, Skills as Knowledge (first author) is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Pavese’s book, The Practical Mind has been offered a contract by Cambridge University Press.
Derk Pereboom’s book, Free Will, was published with Cambridge University Press; the Cornell Chronicle had a story on this. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility, which Pereboom co-edited with Dana Kay Nelkin, also appeared this spring, and he has two articles in this volume, “Moral Responsibility, Alternative Possibilities, and Frankfurt Examples,” and “Manipulation Arguments against Compatibilism,” co-authored with Michael McKenna. He also published “A Forward–Looking Account of Self–Blame” in Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility, Cambridge University Press, edited by Andreas Carlsson.
Dave Shoemaker published “Disordered, Disregarded, Disabled, Dismissed: Immorality and Exemptions from Accountability,” in Psychological Disorders and Responsibility (ed. King and May, Oxford University Press, 2022), and “Response-Dependent Theories of Responsibility,” (eds. Nelkin and Pereboom, Oxford Handbook on Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Nico Silins wrote a chapter on attention and aesthetic experience which he also presented to the Cognitive Science talk series at Cornell University. He is starting a new project about memory and consciousness, exploring the contemporary relevance of the classical Indian philosopher Dignāga.
Will Starr gave a talk “Wear a Mask! A case study in the social dynamics of imperatives” in the SPAGAD series at ZAS in Berlin, exploring the interaction of linguistic and social forces in the interpretation of imperative utterances. A chapter based on this talk will appear in Imperative Dynamics (Oxford University Press). The framework for semantic and pragmatic analysis in this book is part of a more general project on speech acts co-authored with Sarah Murray (Cornell Linguistics). With Jessica Rett (UCLA Linguistics), Starr will be presenting "Decomposing ‘As If’” at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32 in Mexico City, June 8–10. With Cornell PhD student Alejandro Vesga, Starr is writing a paper on what makes a conversation cohere, titled “Non-Literal Communication and Goal-Based Coherence” for Preyer (ed.), Coherence in Discourse (Oxford University Press).
Ben Yost’s “Lowering the Boom: A Brief for Penal Leniency,” was published in Criminal Law & Philosophy winter 2021.