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  • Anja Karnein was invited to a panel at the UN. Discussion on how to concretize the "Pact for the Future." Among the participants were two other philosophy professors (Tamar Gendler and Michael Weisberg), several ambassadors, the ex-commissioner for human rights and a prolific sci-fi author (who wrote "The Ministry of the Future" and who got an asteroid named after himself). | Learn More
  • Charles Goodman was invited to give a keynote at Yale. "Buddhist Quasi-Realism and the Lessons of Computer Vision."  This was part of the workshop on his book manuscript with Malcolm Keating, "Buddhist Philosophy and its Critics." | Learn More
  • Mateo Duque published a pater in the Plato Journal, volume 25, pp 45-54. "An-other Socratic Method: Socratic mimēsis in the Hippias Major." | Learn More
  • Mateo Duque spoke at the International Plato Society (IPS) Symposium Platonicum on the Theaetetus in Madrid, Spain. "Imitation (Mimēsis) as the Cleverest Form of Criticism: Socrates’ “Protagoras” in the Theaetetus (166a2–168c2)." | Learn More
  • Mateo Duque was invited to speak at the Sorbonne at a conference about Hippias the Sophist and his reinterpretations. "Socrates’ other, mimetic method vs. Hippias’ exemplum as explanans."
  • Jessica Vargas Gonzalez, 2022 (SPEL graduate) has started a position as Assistant Professor at the Center for International Studies in El Colegio de México (COLMEX).
  • TJ Buttgereit published an article in the Feminist Philosophical Quarterly. "Disability, Self-Representation, and Care: Nothing about Us without Us."| Learn more
  • Spencer Beaudette published an article in the Journal of Critical Philosophy of Race. “Reparative Racial Justice from Wariness in the Rawlsian Original Position.” | Learn more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article (with Xiaoshun Li and Marc Fleurbaey) in the Centre for Economic Policy Research. “How the G20 can prevent the next pandemic.” | Learn more
  • 8th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference Nov. 9, 2024.
    Organized by graduate students in the Social,Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy Program. | Learn more
  • Anthony Reeves's paper, was accepted at Philosopher's Imprint. “Agents of Our Interests: The Moral Claim to Legal Process.”
  • Charles Goodman wrote a chapter which appeared in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy.  “A Cosmopolitan Defense of a Moderate Cosmopolitanism.” He also gave a talk at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing at Harvard and reviewed Meaning and Non-Existence: Kumārila’s Refutation of Dignāga’s Theory of Exclusion for Philosophy East and West. | Learn more
  • T. J. Buttgereit had an article accepted at Feminist Philosophy Quarterly.
  • Mattias Iser and Anja Karnein published a volume with other collaborators. "Die Macht der Rechtfertigung: Perspektiven einer kritischen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit." They also organized a workshop with Rainer Forst at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. | Learn more
  • Rebecca Harrison presented a talk at the University of Melborn.  "Another World Is Possible: Disruptive Protests as Transformative Experiences."
  • Rebecca Harrison presented a paper at Duke University.  "How To Unintentionally Do Things with Words."
  • Nicole Hassoun published a book in the Oxford University Press. "A Minimally Good Life: What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand." | Learn more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article (with Nick Kreuder) in Public Affairs Quarterly. “The minimally Good Life Account of Abortion’s Permissibility.” | Learn more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article (with Kaushik Basu and Larry Gostin) in Health Economics Policy and Law. “Pandemic Preparedness and Response: A New Mechanism for Expanding Access to Essential Countermeasures.” | Learn more
  • Anthony Preus published an article in Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy. "Socrates, Athenian Citizen." | Learn more
  • Charles Goodman published an article in Sophia. "Sengzhao's Philosophy of Time." | Learn more
  • Charles Goodman attended a conference at Harvard.  Presented a talk about, "Do the Successes of Machine Learning Support a Buddhist Philosophy of Perception."
  • Mateo Duque published an article in the University of Illinois Press. "Two Portraits of Protagoras in Plato: Theaetetus vs. Protagoras." | Learn more
  • 7th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference Nov. 4, 2023.
    Organized by graduate students in the Social,Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy Program |Learn more
  • Mateo Duque attended the International Society for Socratic Studies (ISSS) Latin-American Regional Meeting.  Presented a talk about, "The figure of Aspasia in Plato's Menexenus."
  • Rebecca Harrison (and Kai Tanter) jointly published an article in The Philosophical Quarterly.  "Whose Uptake Matters? Sexual Refusal and the Ethics of Uptake." |Read more
  • Spencer Atkins had an article accepted at Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.  "Do You Homework! A Rights-Based Zetetic Account of Alleged Cases of Doxastic Wrongdoing." |Read more
  • Nick Kreuder published an article in The Journal of Value Theory.  "The Good Life and the Life that's Good for you: A Response to the Experience Machine." |Read more
  • Mateo Duque published a chapter in Paideia and Performance.  "Performing Philosophy: The Pedagogy of Plato's Academy reimagined." |Read more
  • Lisa Tessman published an article in The Journal of Ethics.  "When the Heavens Fall: The Unintelligible and Unthinkable." |Read more
  • Michael Walzer published an article.  "Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands." |Read more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article (with Leon Cosler) in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. "Global Health Impact:  Model to Alleviate the Burden and Expand Access to Treatment of Neglected Tropical Diseases." |Read more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article (with Abha Saxena, Brook Baker, Amanda Banda, Anders Herlitz, Jennifer Miller, Karrar Karrar, Marc Fleurbaey, Esther Chiwa, Caesar Alimisnya Atuire, Iwao Hirose) in the British Medical Journal Global Health. "Pandemic preparedness and response: beyond the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator" |Read more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article in the European Journal of Philosophy of Religion.  "Falling from Grace and the Problem of Free Will." |Read more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article (with Lukas Meyer, Thomas Polzler, Alessandro Pinzani, Lawrence Hamilton, Daniel Petz, Frank Nullmeier, Paul Fagan, Delamar Dutra) in Lessico di Etica Pubblica. "The Minimally Good Life Account of What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand." |Read more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article in Law and Economic Development.  "Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Advancing Research, Development, and Ethical Distribution of New Treatments and Vaccines Law and Economic Development." |Read more
  • 6th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference Nov. 12-13, 2022
    Organized by graduate students in the Social,Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy Program |Learn more
  • Charles Goodman participated in a debate at Princeton University. Charles Goodman debates the topic of "Śāntideva: Utilitarian or Eudaimonist?" at Princeton University. | listen here
  • Charles Goodman was interviewed on New Books Network. Charles Goodman was interviewed on the New Books Network and talks about his book, "The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita." | listen here
  • Lisa Tessman is now serving as Vice President/President Elect of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. | learn more
  • 5th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference Nov. 6-7, 2021
    Organized by graduate students in the Social,Political, Ethical, and Legal Philosophy Program |learn more
  • Aaron Schultz published in Asian Philosophy "Vasubandhu, reactive attitudes, and attentional freedom" | read more
  • Robert Patrick Whelan published in Springer "Realizing Freedom as Non-domination: Political Obligation in Kant's Doctrine of Right" | read more
  • Anthony Preus's translation of Pierre Pellegrin's book on Aristotle's Politics has come out at SUNY Press. "Endangered Excellence: On the Political Philosophy of Aristotle" | learn more

  • Charles Goodman and Aaron Schultz  jointly published a translation in the Journal of Indian Philosophy. "A Translation of a Major Part of Prajñākaramati’s Canonical Commentary on the Perfection of Patient Endurance Chapter of Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra." | learn more

  • Nicole Hassoun published an article in Oxford University Press blog
    "How Protecting Human Rights Can Help Us Increase Our Global Health Impact"| read more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article in The Conversation
    "Philosophy and Psychology Agree - Yelling at People Who Aren't Wearing Masks Won't Work"| read more
  • Nicole Hassoun published an article in Psyche
    "What Is a Minimally Good Life and Are You Prepared To Live It?"| read more
  • Nicole Hassoun was interviewed on The Conversation   
    Nicole Hassoun was interviewed on the The Conversation and talks about who should get a COVID-19 vaccine first. | Listen here
  • Nicole Hassoun shares her opinion on The Hill
    Jonathan Mann's human rights blueprint for global health must guide COVID-19 response | read more

  • Nicole Hassoun on Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines
    Nicole Hassoun's book, Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines, was published in July. 

  • Nicole Hassoun shared some highlights from her book,
    "Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines" | read more

  • Robert Patrick Whelan published in the Journal of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
    "The Costs and Benefits of Prosecution: A Contractualist Justification of Amnesty" by Robert Patrick Whelan | read more

  • Nicole Hassoun published an article in The Conversation
    "How Can We Get Pharma Companies To Do More for Global Health? Try Ranking Them" | read more

  • Nicole Hassoun shared some thoughts on COVID-19 during an interview with Fox 40 News,
    "How Businesses Should Consider Employee Health When Returning to Work." | Listen here

  • Jenn Dum published in Journal of Philosophy of Education
    “Relational Goods and Educational Justice" by Jenn Dum | read more

  • 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

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