Postdoctoral Fellows
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Morgan Thompson published ‘Path-Dependence in Measurement: A Problem for Coherentism’ in Philosophy of Science.
Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow Toni Alimi published ‘Augustine on Temporal Law and Virtue’ in Political Theology and ‘Lactantius’s ’Modern’ Concept of Religio’ in the Journal of Religious History. Toni also participated in a ‘Civil Discourse Seminar’ at Duke University and won a small grant to develop and teach a course that has students ‘engage in civil discourse around controversial issues’ for a portion of the class.
Graduate Students
You can read about all of our graduate students by visiting our Current Graduate Students page.
Migdalia Arcila Valenzuela’s paper ‘Los Problemas Probatorios de la Injusticia Testimonial en el Derecho’ (co-authored with Andrés Páez) will appear in Isonomía: Revista de Teoría y Filosofía del Derecho, one of the most prestigious philosophy journals in Latin America. She also presented four other papers: ‘Attachment Theory: Towards an Ethological Approach to Grief’ at the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) Meeting in Toronto, ‘Journey on Foot: The Philosophical Expedition of Fernando Gonzáles’ at the Caribbean Philosophical Association online conference, ‘Grief and the Costly-function Puzzle’ at the 17th Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology in Buenos Aires, and ‘Laugh it off: Moral Admiration and Humorous Humility’ at the Meeting of the Moral Psychology Research Group at Cornell.
Sara De Leonardis presented ’Sightlovers (Rep. 475d1–480a13): A Case of Self-Deception’ at conferences in Athens and central New York, and ‘The Place of the World-Soul in the Myth of Plato’s Statesman and its Ethical Dimension’ at Northern Arizona University.
Gus Turyn published ‘Gender and first-person authority’ in Synthese and ‘Masks, finks, and gender’ in Erkenntnis.
Hannah Winckler-Olick is at the University of Oldenburg for the year on a DAAD fellowship. She will be presenting ‘Forgive but Don’t Forget: Self-Becoming in the Face of Existential Violence’ in the University’s FLINTA*-Kolloquium series and will also speak in their ‘Wozu Philosophie?’ lecture series (which is designed to give students just beginning in philosophy an idea of what kind of things one can do with an education in philosophy). She’ll also be giving comments at a book workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin on Manon Garcia and Kate Kirkpatrick’s new Beauvoir books in December.