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Jeffner Allen to give a paper presentation at the Caribbean Philosophical Association, XVII Conferencence, Shifting the Geography of Reason, "Dignity, Power and Place in the Caribbean,"

The title of the paper is "A Reef of Tongues: Riddles of Power and Place". The conference will be held April 1-4, 2020, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix

Jenn Dum published in Journal of Philosophy of Education

“Relational Goods and Educational Justice" by Jenn Dum | read more

Melissa Zinkin to be a Faculty Mentor

Melissa will be a faculty mentor at the Athena in Action mentoring conference at Cornell in June.
 

Huseyin Kuyumcuoglu published in Journal of Business Ethics

Sweatshops, Harm, and Interference: A Contractualist Approach by Huseyin Kuyumcuoglu | read more

Lisa Tessman published in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Moral distress in health care: when is it fitting? by Lisa Tessman  | read more

Mattias Iser published in Justification and Emancipation. The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst

"Objectionable Objections. On Toleration, Respect, and Esteem," by Mattias Iser | read more

Lisa Tessman speaks at SUNY Oswego

Lisa Tessman gave this year’s Warren Steinkraus Lecture

"Setting Ourselves Up for Moral Failure" | read more

Tony Reeves published in Ratio Juris

"Impunity and Hope, "by Tony Reeves  | read more

Andrey Darovskikh published in Journal of Ethical Urban Living

“Evaluating Biomedical Enhancement: A Non-ideal Approach” by Andrey Darovskikh | read more

Max Pensky published in Philosophy and Social Criticism

Jewishness and jurisgenesis: On Seyla Benhabib’s Exile, Statelessness and Migration by Max Pensky | read more

Eric Dietrich published in Axiomathes

When Science Confronts Philosophy: Three Case Studies by Eric Dietrich | read more

Katrina England and James Lethbridge awarded the Graduate Student Excellence Award in Teaching for 2019!

ROBERT PATRICK WHELAN published in Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia

Granting Amnesty for Peace: Assessing the Possibility of a Just Peace in Kant’s Doctrine of Right by Robert Patrick Whelan | read more

Max Pensky edited

A Campanion to Adorno

Max Pensky edited the book, A Companion to Adrono published April 2020. | read more

Lisa Tessman gave the  Keynote Lecture

Lisa Tessman gave the Keynote Lecture “Moral Distress at the Edge of Culpability,” at the 33rd European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, University of Oslo, Norway -         July 2019  | read more

Nicole Hassoun will launch the Global Health Impact Index at Princeton University on May 10, 2019. | read more

Robert Guay on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

Robert Guay's book, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment was published in May 2019.
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Lisa Tessman was interviewed on the Tapestry Show    

Lisa Tessman was interviewed on the Tapestry Show, which is a CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) show.  She talks about moments when doing the right thing is impossible. | Listen here

Christopher Morgan-Knapp in The Philosophical Quarterly

Christopher Morgan-Knapp's paper, "Comparative Pride" was published in the Philosophical Quarterly in October 2018. | read the paper 

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Max Pensky on Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Thinking

Max Pensky's book, Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Thinking was published in November 2018.| read more

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Nicole Hassoun discusses consumption and social change in her article recently published in the Economics & Philosophy journal.
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Nicole Hassoun discusses efforts to implement universal health care. | read more

Nicole Hassoun hopes her research into wealth distribution will influence public discussion both locally and worldwide. | read more

Melissa Zinkin on Kantian Constructivism

Melissa Zinkin's essay, "Kantian Constructivism, Respect and Moral Depth," was published in Realism and Anti-Realism in Kant's Moral Philosophy: New Essays.

Mollie Teitelbaum on Psychology Today

Mollie Teitelbaum, former Pell honors student and winner of the 2016 Dillon Award, wrote a guest post for Psychology Today while she is working as a research assistant for Aaron Ben-Ze'ev at University of Haifa. | read more

Charles Goodman on Pineal Express

Listen to Charles Goodman talk about Buddhism, compassion, and ethics on Pineal Express podcast here.

Nicole Hassoun on Big Think

Watch Nicole Hassoun's recent short video, "Fair Trade Pharma: A Plan for More Affordable Prescription Drugs" on Big Think here.

Melissa Zinkin in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

Melissa Zinkin's paper, "Two Kinds of Feminist Philosophy," is forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly in 2018. You can access an early view of the abstract and article on Wiley Online Library.

Nicole Hassoun in Journal of Public Health

Nicole Hassoun published "Measuring health burden without discriminating against the disabled" with Lucio Esposito in the September 2017 issue of Journal of Public Health. Read the abstract or the full article on Oxford University Press.

Lisa Tessman on When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible

Lisa Tessman's book, When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible, was published in June. She did a series of interviews and short articles for general audience venues based on the book:

"Rocks and Hard Places." The Forum. July 2017

Interview on Consider This (radio program), July 2017

Interview on Think (NPR radio program), July 2017

Interview on Tell Me Everything with John Fuglesang (Sirius XM radio), August 2017

Interview with The Reporter Group, August 2017

"Sometimes Giving a Person a Choice is an Act of Terrible Cruelty" Aeon, August 2017

Nicole Hassoun: "Diversity in Philosophy Journals"

Nicole Hassoun published "Diversity in Philosophy Journals: Some New Data on Women in Philosophy," with Sherri Conklin and Isaac Wilhelm in Philosophical Studies (forthcoming), which relates to her work on the Data on Women in Philosophy project.

"I'm Only Human" Blog Debuts on Psychology Today

Lisa Tessman has started a blog for Psychology Today called I'm Only Human: Ethics for Real People.

Lisa Tessman on the APA Blog

Read an interview with Lisa Tessman on her Author Meets Critics session at the 2017 Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association here.

Eric Dietrich on New Books in Philosophy

Eric Dietrich was interviewed about Excellent Beauty: The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World on the New Books in Philosophy podcast. Listen here.

Lisa Tessman on New Books in Philosophy

Lisa Tessman gave an hour-long interview on Moral Failure: on the Impossible Demands of Morality on the New Books in Philosophy podcast. Listen here.

Nicole Hassoun on NPR

Professor Nicole Hassoun developed an index ranking the world's largest pharmaceutical companies according to their impact on global diseases and presented it at the at the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) headquarters in Switzerland. | Listen