Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy

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.
Todd Jones (Philosophy) gave a presentation titled, “Imaginative Worlds in Literature and Real World Understanding” at the 76th Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference on October 31 in Portland, OR.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published a book titled Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics with Oxford University Press.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) served as consultant and script advisor for the most recent season of the PBS Kids television show Alma's Way. One of the episodes on which she served as a consultant, "To Tell or Not to Tell," aired recently on PBS.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published a guide on migration in the Public Philosophy Network's new series of Guides to Public Philosophy.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Children, Borders, and Adultification" at the Workshop on Migration Justice at Texas State University.
Jesse Fitts (Philosophy) has published the paper, "Relevance in Epistemic Modal Disagreement," in the Synthese Library volume Retraction Matters: New Developments in the Philosophy of Language, edited by  Dan Zeman & Mihai Hîncu. 
James Woodbridge's (Philosophy) co-authored article, "Sentential-Variable Deflationism and Adverbial Quantification," was published (online first) by the journal, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, on May 27, 2025.
James Woodbridge's (Philosophy) co-authored (with Bradley Armour-Garb of SUNY-Albany) book, The Deflationary Approach to Truth: A Guide, was published by Oxford University Press, digitally on July 17, 2025, and in print on Sept. 3, 2025. 
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) delivered an invited presentation, "America Encounters the Absolute," at the European Conference on Pragmatism in St. Gallen, Switzerland. 
Cheryl Abbate's (Philosophy) paper, "'Higher' and 'Lower' Political Animals: A Critical Analysis of Aristotle’s Account of the Political Animal," was re-published in Animal History: History as If Animals Mattered, edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey.
Members of UNLV's chapter of the Nevada Faculty Alliance (NFA) recently elected a new executive board. Sue Wainscott (University Libraries), Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy), and John Curry (History) will serve as president, vice president, and treasurer, respectively. NFA is the independent association of faculty in Nevada since 1983…