Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Grecia Sánchez from Unlearning Filosofía, co-presented a webinar entitled "Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands" for the Philosophy of Education Society's Public Engagement program.
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) has edited and contributed an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of Emotion, which focuses upon Mariana Alessandri’s Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Times.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy), Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville), and Avery Kolers (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) presented a webinar entitled "Medicine and Resistance Under Non-Ideal Conditions," which was hosted by the American Philosophical Association and the North American Society for Social Philosophy. The webinar focused on…
James Woodbridge (Philosophy) has his article (co-authored with Bradley Armour-Garb of SUNY-Albany), "The 'Unacceptability' of Alethic Nihilism," published (online first) by the journal, Analysis, on Sept. 30, 2026.
Klaus Ladstaetter (philosophy) presented a paper, “This Is So,” at the 47th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, hosted by the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. The paper will be published in the Proceedings of the International Wittgenstein Symposia by De Gruyter.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her recent book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "What Trump gets wrong About 'birth tourism': Mexican mothers on the border tell a different story about the attack on birthright citizenship" in The Boston Globe (Ideas Section).
Dave Beisecker’s (Philosophy) co-edited volume, Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, has been published by Springer, as part of its series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (LNCSAI).
Natalie Hsiao and William Ramsey (both Philosophy) published their paper, "A Different Type of Framing Effect." In this paper, Hsiao and Ramsey argue that the way in which philosophical thought experiments (like the trolley problem) are typically presented in the literature can influence peoples’ intuitive judgments about what the thought…
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.