Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented a paper, “When Spirit Came to the Comstock: the correspondence of Horatio Jones, Nevada’s first Philosopher," at the Summer Institute in American Philosophy, hosted by Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. 

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Michael Kagan (Law) published "As Jewish Nevadans, Tisha B'Av Calls Us to Remember. Recent Events Call Us to Act" in the Nevada Current.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy), Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville), and Avery Kolers (University of Tennessee) published "Double Binds of Reproductive Injustice: A Response to Kuczewski et al." in The American Journal of Bioethics.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented on an author-meets-critics panel on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics as part of the "Non-Ideal Migration Ethics Workshop" and the 32nd World Congress of the International Association Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy held at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. Other…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the Freie Universität Berlin (in Berlin, Germany).

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Luvell Anderson (Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) co-presented their paper "African American Migration Ethics" at the 2026 Latin American Studies Association congress in Paris, France.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an op-ed titled "The US Immigration Workforce is Overwhelmingly Latino. The Reasons Why Are Rooted in History" in The Hill.

Jesse Fitts' (Philosophy) paper, "ChatGPT Is Not Bullshit, nor Is It Not Not Bullshit," has been accepted for publication in Ethics and Information Technology.

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.