Our faculty members are – across the board -- incredibly engaged and productive. Below, we highlight just a few notable products from each faculty member’s activities over the past academic year.
Professor Michael Blake published eight new articles, including “Voluntary and Involuntary Migrants: On Migration, Safe Third Countries, and the Collective Unfreedom of the Proletariat,” 37(4) Ethics and International Affairs (2024) 427-451, and he has four new public facing pieces in The Conversation. He’s working on a book on the politics of the meaning of life.
Associate Professor Ben Feintzeig published three peer-reviewed research articles: two in mathematical physics journals and one in a philosophy of science journal. He also completed work on a grant from the NSF -- Quantum Epistemology Beyond Quantum Measurement -- in collaboration with researchers at the University of Minnesota. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal Foundations of Physics.
Associate Professor Carina Fourie published a case study “Moral Distress and the Marginalization of Nurses” (with Gina Campelia) in the American Journal of Bioethics, and signed a contract with Oxford University Press for her book, preliminarily entitled Securing Health Equity: Philosophical Foundations for Equality and Justice in Public Health and Health Care. She is the new leader of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities’ Public Health Ethics Affinity Group.
Associate Professor Paul Franco has three new papers published or accepted, including the forthcoming “A History of Metaethics and Values in Science” in Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown (Tsou, Jonathan Y., Shaw, Jamie, and Fehr, Carla, eds.) Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Springer. Paul also valiantly served as the department’s Graduate Program Coordinator, and taught a new grad seminar on Recent Philosophy: The history of values in science.
Professor Stephen Gardiner published four new articles (with four more forthcoming), and is spearheading a new research project on space ethics, in collaboration with the Space Law and Policy Program run through the UW Jackson School and UW Law School, with funding from the Simpson Center. He’s part of a research group at UW on the science and ethics of geoengineering, and is one of three international partners on a grant on the ethics of net zero from the Australian Research Council.
Professor Sara Goering received two new grants in neuroethics – 1) a supplemental grant on peer support, for the NIH R01 Caring for Brain Pioneers (with colleague Eran Klein and past PhD student Michelle Pham, now faculty at Michigan State University’s Center for Bioethics and Social Justice), and 2) a subcontract for the ethics portion of a University of Southern California based NIH Brain and Behavior Quantification and Synchronization grant, focused on mental privacy and self-trust – and published six papers, including “Can I hold that thought for you? Dementia and Shared Relational Agency” (with Eran Klein) in the Hastings Center Report.
Associate Professor Colin Marshall published “Schopenhauer on the Futility of Suicide” in Mind (their first paper on Schopenhauer since 1917)! In addition to other work, Colin is involved in three editorial projects (an OUP volume on Kant, a CUP volume on Schopenhauer, and a Festschrift for his former advisor, Béatrice Longuenesse, with Routledge), and has two public-facing books in the works: Beyond Manipulation: An Ethical Guide to Persuasion, and Schopenhauer’s Guide to a Tolerable Life.
Associate Professor José Jorge Mendoza published his paper “Go Back to Where You Came From! Racism, White Nationalism, and Xenophobia” in American Philosophical Quarterly, and created two new courses, “The Nature of Race and Racism” and “Latin American Philosophy.” He is Book Review Editor for Radical Philosophy Review, and a new Member at Large for the APA’s Pacific Division Executive Committee.
Assistant Professor Rose Novick co-authored a paper with Karen Kovaka “Relative frequency controversies and the growth of biological knowledge” forthcoming in Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, and is developing a book project, Homology: A Biography of a Concept. She is also finalizing a translation of the inner chapters of the Zhuangzi for publication.
Professor Ian Schnee completed a full revision to the website, textbook and software for his formal logic textbook, The Logic Course Adventure. He also published “Random Discussion Leader in the Philosophy Classroom” (with Kristi Straus, José Guzman, and Ariane Gauvreau) in Teaching Philosophy (2023), and his co-edited book Illuminating Errors: New Essays on Knowledge from Non-Knowledge (co-editor Rodrigo Borges) was published by Routledge (2023).
Assistant Professor Amelia Wirts published “What Does It Mean to Say, ‘The Criminal Justice System is Racist’?” in American Philosophical Quarterly, and that paper was nominated for the annual APA Article Prize. She has also been actively involved in public philosophy, working with the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Providers (KASAP) after their education coordinator read her blog piece, “The Limitations of the Criminal Law’s Ability to Express the Value of Women” last year.
Professor Carole Lee and Associate Professor Conor Mayo-Wilson were on leave this academic year.