Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently delivered the Presidential Address for the New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Association at Baylor University. The address was  “Truth and the Topology of Assertion.”
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Are Exit Controls for Women Migrant Workers Justified in Theory? A Response to Patti Lenard," commentary for The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas Project, Migration Policy Center, European University Institute. 
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a virtual keynote presentation, "Pregnant and Socially Undocumented: Mujeres Fronterizas en Resistencia," for an event organized by the Latin American Graduate Students Association at the University of Kansas.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) received a Fulbright García Robles grant for 2022-23. She will use her Fulbright grant to co-develop a pre-college philosophy program at a teacher training college in Hidalgo, Mexico. She also will undertake a collaborative research project that seeks to incorporate local Indigenous philosophies into pre-college…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Animals, Humans and the Right to Privacy" (virtually) to the More-Than-Human Relations in Times of Violence conference at the University of Idaho.
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently presented a paper, "Dewey, Harris, and the Continued Working of the 'Hegelian Bacillus'" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in Rollins College, Florida. The paper was also co-authored by Joe Ervin (Academic Success Center) and Jasmin Özel (Philosophy).
David Forman (Philosophy) published "Kant on the Moral Law as the Causal Law for Freedom" in the journal Kant-Studien.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Border Crossing for Abortion: A Feminist Challenge to Border Theory" in the Journal of Social Philosophy.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) virtually presented "Intimate Boundaries: Toward a Feminist Theory of Borders" to the Kegley Institute of Ethics at the California State University, Bakersfield. 
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) published a book chapter, "Racialized Sexual Discrimination: A Moral Right or Morally Wrong?" in the Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics (edited by David Boonin).
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Intimate Boundaries: Toward a Feminist Theory of Borders" to the Center on Ethics and department of philosophy at San Jose State University.
Amy Reed-Sandoval, Gloria Lara, and Pablo Ponce (all Philosophy) co-delivered a virtual keynote presentation based on their paper "Filosofía Infantil y La Pedagogía Influida por el Trauma: Lecciones de la Iniciativa de Filosofía Infantil de Las Vegas Durante La Pandemia COVID-19" ("Philosophy for Childrena and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy:…