Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) was interviewed by Fox5 during a rally she co-organized in response to the current Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups of Nevada's wild horses and burros.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Overturning Birthright Citizenship in a Post-Roe United States: A Specter of Dehumanization," in The Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory, edited by Brooke A Ackerly, Luis Cabrera, Monique Deveaux, Fonna Forman, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Gina Starblanket, and…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Conversion to Judaism: A Model of Ethnoracial Identity Change" at the virtual workshop Race at the Margins: Context, Contingency, and Identity.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented comments on the book Matthew Lipman and the Educational Role of Philosophy, co-edited by Megan Laverty and Maughn Gregory, at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, held this year at UNLV.      

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave the 2026 Ann Gary and Sharon Bishop Endowed Lecture in Feminist Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her lecture was entitled "Borders as Intimacy Violation: Toward a Feminist Theory of Borders".

Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited talk titled "Taking Feline Well-Being Seriously" at the Cat/People Symposium at Southern Methodist University. In this talk, Abbate argued that promoting animal well-being (human and nonhuman, felines included) involves more than just promoting happiness; it also involves treating and viewing animals…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) participated in an "author meets critics" panel on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the 2026 American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Her commentators included José Jorge Mendoza from University of Washington, Allison Wolf from Universidad de los Andes,…

Dave Beisecker's (Philosophy) article, "America Encounters the Absolute" has been published in the latest issue of Pragmatism Today. The article traces the emergence of American pragmatist philosophy out of revolutionary German Idealism.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published a public philosophy article titled, "Minneapolis exige una coalición feminista," ("Minneapolis demands a feminist coalition") in El País.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published a public philosophy article titled, "Antisemitism damages Mexico protests" in Salon.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Doctors as Immigration Agents: An Ethical Challenge" in Forced Migration and Health Care Justice (Oxford University Press), edited by Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Verina Wild, Anna Gotlib, Ryoa Chung, and Deborah Zion.

Jesse Fitts (Philosophy) has published the paper, "Access Denied: An Argument Against King’s Propositional Access Principle," in the journal Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.