Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy

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…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) discussed Philosophy for Children and philosophical parenting on the podcast Nurturing Minds: The Psychology and Philosophy of Parenting, co-hosted by Rachel Riskind and Vance Ricks.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her forthcoming book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics as part of an author-meets-critics panel on her book at the 2025 North American Society for Social Philosophy conference held in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Her commentators included Lori Gallegos (Texas State…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) organized and facilitated a bilingual public philosophy workshop in El Paso, Texas entitled "Exploring Social Justice with U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Children and Youth." The event was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Association Berry Public Philosophy Fund.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Claudia Sheinbaum has a story to tell - and we need to listen" in Salon.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Peter Higgins (Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University) published "Gender and Migration" in Handbook of Migration Ethics, edited by Andreas Niederberger, Uchenna Okeja, and Johanna Gordemann.
Amy Reed-Sandoval's (Philosophy) paper, "Socially, Not Legally, Undocumented," was published in The Latinx Philosophy Reader (Routledge, 2025), edited by Lori Gallegos, Manuel Vargas, and Francisco Gallegos.