Research Accomplishments 2022
The Philosophy Department at 杏吧原创 University is home to an active research community. Members of the department publish in various subdisciplines of philosophy, including philosophy of mind and language, theoretical and practical ethics, feminist philosophy, the history of philosophy, philosophy of science, aesthetics, and other areas. Over half of our permanent faculty members hold, or have held, external research grants. Department members have published books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Rowman and Littlefield, and MIT Press. Philosophy students at 杏吧原创 often have the opportunity to engage in advanced research, in collaboration with and under the mentorship of faculty members.
Many department members are involved in interdisciplinary and collaborative research; we have close working relationships with colleagues in Cognitive Science, English, the School for Studies in Art and Culture, the College of the Humanities, Sociology/Anthropology, and Political Science, among other units. The department is also home to 杏吧原创 University’s Centre on Ethics and Values, an interdisciplinary research centre that takes advantage of 杏吧原创’s location in the national capital by fostering conversations about issues in ethics and public policy between academics and members of the public sector.
Research Accomplishments from 2022, early 2023, or forthcoming
Research Grants:
Gabriele Contessa
Insight Development Grant, SSHRC, Public Trust in Science: A Social Approach, ($32,020),SSHRC, 2022鈥2024.
Jay Drydyk
SSHRC Connections Grant: Development Ethics Forum. $12,000. 2022.
Melissa Frankel
FASS Mid-Career Research grant, 鈥淒reams in Early Modern Philosophy鈥: 10,000 CDN. 2021-22.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews:
Andrew Brook
Transcendental Self and Intelligible Self, Russia Kant Conference, April 2022, in Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy.
Proposal for Commentary: Clark, H. H. and K. Fischer, Social Robots as Depictions of Social Agents, with Marina Nekrasova and Josh Redstone. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Submitted April 2022.
Kyla Bruff
鈥淚ntroduction,鈥 co-authored with Sean J. McGrath and Joseph Carew, The Palgrave Schelling Handbook, co-edited with Sean J. McGrath and Joseph Carew, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (forthcoming).
鈥淪chelling and the Frankfurt School,鈥 The Palgrave Schelling Handbook, Sean J. McGrath, Kyla Bruff, and Joseph Carew, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (forthcoming)
Thomas Buchheim, 鈥淪chelling鈥檚 Late Philosophy,鈥 co-translated with Majk Feldmeier, The Palgrave Schelling Handbook, Sean J. McGrath, Kyla Bruff, and Joseph Carew, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (translation from German; forthcoming)
鈥淭he State as Second Nature in Schelling鈥檚 System of Transcendental Idealism,鈥 Life,Organism and Human Nature: Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy, Luca Corti andJohannes-Georg Sch眉lein, eds., Berlin: Springer Nature, 2023 (in press)
鈥淓nlightenment and Revolution,鈥 The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism, Daniel Whistler and Tilottama Rajan, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Gabriele Contessa
鈥業t Takes a Village to Trust Science: Towards A (Thoroughly) Social Approach to Public Trust in Science鈥, Erkenntnis, forthcoming.
Book Review of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People鈥檚 Economy,38: 315鈥320. 2022.
鈥楽hopping for Experts鈥, Synthese, 200, 2022: 1-21.
Eros Corazza
Contextual Minds. (with J茅r么me Dokic) (forthcoming)
Mind, World, and Knowledge: The Rationalist Program and its Origins (forthcoming)
鈥淪ome Notes on The Indexical Point of View鈥. Manuscrito (forthcoming)
(with C. Genovesi & J. Hesse). 鈥淢etaphorical Proper Names and the Continuity
Hypothesis鈥. Journal of Semantics (2023)
鈥淭he Name-Notion Network: On How to Conciliate Two Approaches to Naming andReference-Fixing鈥. Topoi (2023)
鈥淔rege on Identity and Co-Reference鈥. Organon F 29 (1): 26-46 () (2022)
鈥淪ome Notes on Cognitive Dynamic: Inspired by Y. Bozickovic鈥檚 The Indexical Point
of View鈥. Manuscrito 45 (3): 84-98 (2022)
Gordon Davis
鈥溍塼hique et impersonnalit茅: Identit茅 personnelle et cons茅quentialisme chez Sartre et le Mahayana鈥, a chapter co-authored with P. Hoyeck & N. Ramlakhan, forthcoming in G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds), Le souci sans soi : deux traditions philosophiques en dialogue
鈥淟es vertus du consequentialisme et le consequentialisme de la vertu chez Hume, 脿 travers le prisme bouddhique鈥, a chapter co-authored with Charles Goodman, forthcoming in G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds), Le souci sans soi : deux traditions philosophiques en dialogue
鈥淟umi茅re naturelle et luminosit茅 axiologique chez Descartes et Vasubandhu鈥, forthcoming in G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds), Le souci sans soi : deux traditions philosophiques en dialogue
Why would a Buddha lie? Varieties of Buddhist Consequentialism鈥, in M. Hemmingsen (ed), Ethical Theory in Global Perspective (SUNY, forthcoming)
G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds), Le souci sans soi : deux traditions philosophiques en dialogue (2022)
Jay Drydyk
With Susanna Price. Introduction. In Resettlement with People First: Counterfactual Pathways, ed. Susanna Price and Jay Drydyk, pp. xx-yy. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, forthcoming.
With Diana Velasco and Kerry O鈥橬eill. Empowerment and Poverty. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, ed. Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak.9399 words, in press.
Development Ethics. In Elgar Encylopedia of Development, ed. Matthew Clarke, 3692 words. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, in press.
Melissa Frankel
鈥淢aterialism and Immaterialism,鈥 in The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley, ed. Samuel Rickless, Oxford University Press: 107-127 (2022)
Christine Koggel
鈥淔eminist Philosophy and Poverty鈥 in Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, edited by Gottfried Schweiger and Sedmak Clemens. Routledge. (Forthcoming 2023)
鈥淚ndigenous Voices and Relationship: Insights from Care Ethics and Accounts of Hermeneutical Injustice鈥 in Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives, edited by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald, and Fiona Robinson. Rutgers University Press. (Forthcoming 2023)
鈥淔eminist Relational Theory: Introduction鈥 in Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches and Applications. Co-edited by Ami Harbin, Christine Koggel, and Jennifer Llewellyn. Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics, 2022: 18 (1).
Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches and Applications. Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics. Guest-edited by Ami Harbin, Christine Koggel, and Jennifer Llewellyn. Volume 18, Issue 1, 2022.
Annie Lariv茅e
Forthcoming. 鈥淲hat Socrates Learned from Parmenides. Part 1. Parmenides鈥 Gymnasia and Socrates鈥 Intellectual Virtues,鈥 in Eleatic Ontology: Origin and Reception. Anais de Filosofia Classica, vol. 1 (d) of The EON Project: Eleatic Ontology in Plato. A. Lefka & C. Luchetti (eds). Invited chapter.
Forthcoming. 鈥淲hat Socrates Learned from Parmenides. Part 2. Hypothesis, Antilogy, and Philosophical Self-Defense in the Phaedo.鈥 in Eleatic Ontology: Origin and Reception. Anais de Filosofia Classica, vol. 1 (d) of The EON Project: Eleatic Ontology in Plato. A. Lefka & C. Luchetti (eds). Invited chapter.
Forthcoming. 鈥淎ncient 鈥楶hilosophy as a Way of Life鈥 Examined. Clearing up the Confusion between 鈥榃ay of Life鈥 and 鈥楢rt of Life鈥.鈥 Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments, M. Faustino & H. Telo (eds.), 鈥楶hilosophy as a Way of Life: Texts and Studies鈥 series, Leiden, Brill. Invited chapter
Forthcoming. 鈥淧latonicienne chez les bouddhistes. Contrastes entre deux traditions philosophiques du point de vue de la pratique,鈥 Identit茅 et la philosophie du sujet dans deux traditions philosophiques : Ontologies occidentales et bouddhiques 脿 la lumi猫re des enjeux 茅thiques, G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds.), Paris, Hermann. Invited chapter.
Forthcoming. 鈥淧armenides鈥 gymnopaedia. The role of Eleatic dialectics in Socrates鈥 philosophical education鈥 in Eleatic Ontology: Origin and Reception. Anais de Filosofia Classica, vol. 1 (d) of The EON Project: Eleatic Ontology in Plato. A. Lefka & C. Luchetti (eds). Invited chapter.
A French version of above will appear simultaneously in the same collection, online (鈥淟a gymnop茅die de 笔补谤尘茅苍颈诲别. Le r么le de la dialectique 茅l茅ate dans l鈥櫭ヾucation philosophique de Socrate.鈥) Invited chapter.
Forthcoming. 鈥淧latonicienne chez les bouddhistes. Contrastes entre deux traditions philosophiques du point de vue de la pratique,鈥 Identit茅 et la philosophie du sujet dans deux traditions philosophiques: Ontologies occidentales et bouddhiques 脿 la lumi猫re des enjeux 茅thiques, G. Davis & S. Hinzelin (eds.), Paris, Hermann. Invited chapter.
2023. Entry on 鈥淕ender,鈥 The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato (2nd edition), Gerald Press and Mateo Duque (eds.), London, Bloomsbury Press. Invited entry.
2022. 鈥淪ocrate en devenir. Le d茅veloppement du jeune Socrate dans le 笔丑茅诲辞苍 comme cl茅 herm茅neutique du 笔补谤尘茅苍颈诲别,鈥 Selected Papers of the XIIth, Symposium Platonicum on Plato鈥檚 Parmenides (Paris). L. Brisson, A. Mac茅, O. Renaud (eds.), Sankt Augustin, Academia Verlag. Peer-reviewed.
2022. 鈥淐learing Up the Confusion Between Art of Life and Way of Life: A Challenge to Hadot鈥檚 Main Interpretive Concept.鈥 Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments, M. Faustino & H. Telo (eds.), 鈥楶hilosophy as a Way of Life: Texts and Studies鈥 series, Leiden, Brill. Invited chapter (in preparation).
Ian Maclean-Evans (former MA Student, current Acting Graduate Program Administrator)
MacLean-Evans, Ian (2023). “External Conditions, Internal Rationality: Spinoza on the Rationality of Suicide.” Journal of Spinoza Studies vol. 1, no. 2.
MacLean-Evans, Ian (2022). Review of Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love, by Michael Strawser. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 30, no. 3.
David Matheson
鈥淢eaning in the Pursuit of Pleasure.鈥 The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, DOI: 10.1017/apa.2021.19 (2022), pp. 1鈥15.
Myrto Mylopoulos
鈥淪killed Action and Metacognitive Control鈥 in Advances in Experimental Philosophy, Eds. Paul Henne & Sam Murray, Routledge Press (2023)
鈥淭he Proprietary Nature of Agentive Experience鈥 in Consciousness (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy Series), Eds. Joshua Weisberg and David Rosenthal, Wiley Blackwell (2023)
鈥淢otor Qualities鈥 in The Philosophy of David Rosenthal, Ed. Joshua Weisberg, Cambridge University Press (2023)
鈥淣eurobiological Theories of Consciousness鈥 in Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience, eds. Carolyn Dicey-Jennings and Benjamin Young, Routledge Press (2022)
鈥淥ops! I Did it Again: The Psychology of Everyday Action Slips鈥, Topics in Cognitive Science, 282-294 (2022).
Vida Panitch
The Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Vida Panitch and Elodie Bertrand, eds. (Forthcoming: London, Routledge).
Exploitation, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Christopher Melenovsky, ed. (London: Routledge): 217-226 (2022).
Decommodification as Exploitation, in Exploitation: Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Matt Zwolinsky and Benjamin Fergusson, eds. (forthcoming Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Joshua Shepherd
Bodily skill (forthcoming). Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness, Adrian Alsmith and Matthew Longo (eds.). Routledge.
Problems and mysteries of the many languages of thought, with Eric Mandelbaum, Yarrow Dunham, Roman Feiman, Chaz Firestone, E.J. Green, Daniel W Harris, Melissa M Kibbe, Benedek Kurdi, Myrto Mylopoulos, Joshua Shepherd, Alexis Wellwood, Nicolas Porot, Jake Quilty-Dunn (forthcoming). Cognitive Science
Intentional action and knowledge-centred theories of control, with J. Adam Carter (forthcoming). Philosophical Studies
Conscious cognitive effort and cognitive control (forthcoming). WIREs CognitiveScience.
Non-human moral status: Problems with phenomenal consciousness (2023). AJOB Neuroscience
Agency in educational technology: Interdisciplinary perspectives and implications for learning design, with Garvin Brod, Natalia Kucirkova, Dietsje Jolles, and Inge Mollenar (2023). Educational Psychology Review.
Knowledge, practical knowledge, and intentional action, with J. Adam Carter (2023). Ergo.
Disappearing agents, mental action, rational glue (2022). Mental Action, eds. Michael Brent and Lisa Miracchi. Routledge.
Practical structure and moral skill (2022). Philosophical Quarterly. DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqab047.
Flow and the dynamics of conscious thought (2022). Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s11097-021-09762-x.
Human brain organoids and consciousness, with Takuya Niikawa, Yoshiyuki Hiyashi, and Tsutomu Sawai (2022). Neuroethics 15(5). DOI: 10.1007/s12152-022-09483-1.
Human brain organoids and consciousness, with Takuya Niikawa, Yoshiyuki Hiyashi,
and Tsutomu Sawai (2022). Neuroethics 15(5). DOI: 10.1007/s12152-022-09483-1.
Whole Books Authored or Edited:
Jay Drydyk
Resettlement with People First: Counterfactual Pathways, co-edited with Susanna Price. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, Forthcoming in 2024.
Christine Koggel
Relational Theory: Feminist Approaches, Implications, and Applications. Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics. Guest-edited by Christine Koggel, Ami Harbin, and Jennifer Llewellyn. Volume 18, Issue 1, 2022. (most cited articles ever for this journal)
Vida Panitch
The Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Vida Panitch and Elodie Bertrand, eds. (Forthcoming: London, Routledge). (Forthcoming)
Presented Talks:
Kyla Bruff
Invited lecture: 鈥淪chelling鈥檚 Presentation of the State in the 1804W眉rzburger System,鈥 Workshop on Schelling, System der gesammten Philosophie undder Naturphilosophie insbesondere, 1804. Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 12-14, 2023
Invited lecture: 鈥淪chelling’s criticism of Jacobi’s thesis that naturalismmust be a fatalism,鈥 Streit um die Freiheit: Der Disput zwischen Jacobi und Schelling1811-12 , Forschungszentrum f眉r Klassische Deutsche Philosophie / Hegel-Archiv,Ruhr-Universit盲t Bochum, Bochum, Germany, July 7, 2023
鈥淭he Romantic Roots of Schelling鈥檚 Political Philosophy,鈥 Romantic Realisms Panel at the German Studies Association Forty-Seventh Annual Conference, McGill,Montr茅al, Oct. 5-8, 2023
invited lecture: 鈥淧ersonhood beyond the law: transcending the state, natural hierarchy, and the categorical imperative in Schelling鈥檚 political philosophy,鈥 S茅minaire de Recherche du Centre de Philosophie du Droit, Universit茅 catholique de Louvain, Belgium (June 22, 2022).
conference presentation: 鈥淓nvisioning a Different Future: Schelling and the Frankfurt School,鈥 North American Schelling Society Seventh Annual Conference, York University and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (May 26, 2022).
鈥淭he Shifting Concept of the State in Schelling’s Political Philosophy,鈥 XI. Freiburger Graduiertensymposium: Die Klassische deutsche Philosophie und ihre Folgen (online), February 26, 2022.
Gabriele Contessa
鈥楢n Infrastructural Approach to Public Trust in Science鈥, PERITIA Conference: RethinkingExpertise, Trust, and Policy, University College Dublin, Dublin, March 2023.
鈥楾he Collectivistic Approach to Public Trust in Science and Our Dysfunctional Socio-EpistemicInfrastructure鈥, SciBeh Virtual Workshop: Collectively Intelligent Science Communication,Online, March 2023.
鈥楶ublic Trust in Science and Our Socio-Epistemic Infrastructure鈥 Political Epistemology NetworkAnnual Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, December 2022.
鈥楶ublic Trust in Science and Our Socio-Epistemic Infrastructure鈥 Philosophy, Politics, andEconomics Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 2022
Gordon Davis
鈥淩eflections on Ninian Smart鈥檚 comparative methodology鈥 (due to be presented at the Twelfth East-West Philosophers Conference, University of Hawaii)
鈥淰irtue and Wisdom in the ninth chapter of Santideva鈥檚 Bodhicaryavatara鈥 (due to be presented at SACP 2022-23)
鈥淲estern and Non-Western Sources of Moral Consequentialism: whether and how to honour pioneers and praecursors鈥, presented to the Department of Philosophy (colloquium), University of Ottawa, 18/03/22
Jay Drydyk
Epistemic Injustice and Oppression: Three Hypotheses. Human Development and Capabilities Association 2022 Conference, Antwerp, September 20, 2022.
Melissa Frankel
鈥淭he principle of motion: Berkeley on motion, minds, and action,鈥 at 鈥淒e Motu: Text, Context and Perspectives,鈥 Universit茅 d鈥橝ix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence (October) (2022)
Christine Koggel
鈥淔eminist Relational Theory: Perspectives on Hermeneutical Injustice鈥 for the Panel, Relational Theory: Feminist Perspectives and Applications, at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), at Oakland University (Rochester, MI), October 28-30, 2022
鈥淕ender Concepts, Capabilities, and Hermeneutical Injustice鈥 for the Panel, Capability and Oppression: The Role of Epistemic Injustice, at the Human Development and Capabilities Association Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, September 19-22, 2022
鈥淩elational Theory: Insights into Oppression in Colonial/Settler Contexts鈥 for the Panel, Relationships: Insights into Issues of Colonialism in Settler Nations, at the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA), Medellin, Columbia, July 2022 (conference postponed from 2020, in-person and virtual July 13-15, 2022)
Annie Lariv茅e
2022. “Interdits: la recette de Platon. Sexualit茅 kata phusin et construction du tabou au livre VIII des Lois,” S茅minaire Platonicien, L. Brisson, P. Caye (organisers). 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure, Paris
David Matheson
鈥淧erfectonism about a Meaningful Life.鈥 To be presented at the First International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, Tohoku University, Japan, June 2023
鈥淎 Naturalist鈥檚 Perspective on Meaning in Religious Pursuits.鈥 Fourth International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2022
Myrto Mylopoulos
鈥淢otor Control as Productive Reasoning鈥, Workshop on the Architecture of Skilled Action, Barcelona, Spain (April, 2022)
Vida Panitch
Gender, Health, and Basic Income, The Health Divided: Basic Income and Health Equity, Brocher Foundation, Geneva, May 23, 2023
Philosophical Anti-Commodification Theory: Corruption, Inequality, and Justice, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, May 18, 2023
Decommodification as Exploitation, Wharton Business Ethics Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Dec 2, 2022
Decommodification as Exploitation, Keynote Address, University of Toronto Graduate Student Conference, University of Toronto, November 3, 2022
Philosophical Anti-commodification Theory: Corruption, Inequality, Justice, Contested Markets: Theories and Controversies, Sorbonne University, June 3, 2022
Joshua Shepherd
Improv and cognitive control, Cognitive Science group, City University of New York, NYC, March 2022
Philosophy at the improv, Workshop on Agency in the Mountains, Brighton, UT, March 2022
Re-orienting the sense of agency, Plenary Symposium at the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Milan, July 2022
Practical reasoning and cognitive feelings, Symposium on Skill and Know-How, SOPhiA
2022, Salzburg, Austria, September 2022
Capacity-based approach to functions of consciousness, Functions of Consciousness
workshop, London School of Economics, September 2022
Improv and cognitive control, Cognitive Science group, City University of New York,
NYC, March 2022
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