Category: Faculty Research

In this 2024 paper in Philosophical Topics, Professor Tuna suggests that bias reduction should be a norm of aesthetic engagement.

In this forthcoming paper in Inquiry, Professor Stone argues for the view that fictional entities like Sherlock Homes are concrete things created by authors.

In this 2024 paper in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Professor Orlandi suggests that visual experience is representational, but not for the reason presented in a recent monograph by philosopher Berit Brogaard.

In this recently published paper in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Professor Lyons defends the idea of reallocating the power and responsibilities that police currently have to other sorts of institutions.

In this forthcoming paper in Journal of Philosophy, Professor Flores develops a new model of belief that accounts for believers being resistant to evidence.

In this 2022 paper in Philosophy Compass, Professor Ellis offers a comprehensive overview of motivated reasoning– reasoning tainted by wishful thinking or self-deception, for example– and its connection to the ethics of belief.

In this 2021 paper in Metaphilosophy, Professor Dinishak argues that autists are vulnerable to hermeneutical injustice, a type of injustice that occurs when marginalized communities are not granted words and concepts to describe their experiences in their own terms.

In this contribution to Companion to World Literature, Professor Bowin offers an accessible and detailed look at Aristotle’s ethical theory.

In this 2024 paper in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Professor Bernstein gives an account of linguistic descriptions whose well-intended positive surface meanings are inflected with biased content.

In this paper forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Professor Achs argues that guilt-tripping is sometimes morally permissible.