Previous Graduate Student Conferences

The list below shows previous Philosophy Graduate Student Conference speakers and their presentation topics.

Previous Graduate Student Conference Speakers

2026 Conference Program

Justin Correa — Aristotle’s Second Condition for Particular Injustice
Changshuo Sun — Metaphysical Indeterminacy from Social Construction
Carson (Hye) Kelly — The “Duty of Assistance” and “Structural Injustice:” U.S. Military Intervention in the Development of South Korea
Jack Swick — Speciesism as Avidyā
Colt Hutchinson — Touch and the Limits of Immediacy in Husserl and Derrida
Lanei Rodemeyer — Applications of Phenomenology: An Inquiry into the Structures of Racism and Anti-racism (Keynote)

2025 Conference Program

Cecilia Saez — The Work That Disappears: Land Art, Désoeuvrement, and the Possibility of Expressing Nature
Matthew-Jack Biley — Plato's Ecological Function Argument: Constitutive Virtue for a Modern Environmental Ethics
Austin Meek — A Virtue Responsibilist Approach to Epistemological Extremism
Ethan Shahan — Heidegger's Stoß and the Aesthetic Experience of Late-Modernity
Hyeongyun Kim — Bridging Theories of Social Kinds: From Searle to a Discovery-Invention Continuum
Graham Priest — Social Atomism (Keynote)

2024 Conference Program

Patrick Hall — Plotinus on Beauty and the Significance of Nature
Yusuke Satake — A Theoretical Limit of Modal Dispositionalism
Sam Morkal-Williams — Fact-Insensitive Principles and the Scope of Fundamental Justice
Erik J. Alvarado-Quinteros — What Can We See?
Abigail Whalen — The Necessary Existence of God on a Modal Realist Account: Two Proposals
McGwire Hidden — Phenomenological Absence as the Foundation of Grief
Anthony J. Steinbock — Exemplarity and the Cognition of Value: Feeling, Meaning, and Value in Phenomenology (Keynote)

2023 Conference Program

Vincent Tanzil — Intuition as Evidence
J.A. Littler — The Jesus Who Cannot Save
William Schumacher — Reasonableness Requires Good Reasoning
Marlon Rivas Tinoco — Believing Rationally Given Your Actual Beliefs
Najii Wilcox — Refusal and Double Consciousness
Colby Clark — What is the Right Unit for the Ecological Resilience Concept?
John Nolt — The Long-term Non-anthropocentric Ethics of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss (Keynote)

2022 Conference Program

Yifan Wang — Old Wine in New Bottle? A Marxist Critique of the Trend of Sustainable Brands
Steven Winterfeldt — The Content of Perception: Inadequacy and Transcendence
Sterling Hall — Haraway at the Crossroads: On Two Types of Materialism in the ‘Cyborg Manifesto’
Isaac Shur — Should Private Property Rights Have Term Limits?
William Burgess Applegate — Making the Implicit Explicit: The Narrative Self in Cavarero's Relating Narratives
Jordan Myers — Replacing Retribution with Reactivity: How Restorative Justice Reduces Offender Harm
Laura Hengehold — Locating Gendered Affects in the Political Imaginary (Keynote)

2021 Conference Program

Katherine Brichacek — A Tale of Two Movements: Hannah Arendt’s Inconsistently Nonideal Political Action in Zionism and the Civil Rights Movement
Eric Shoemaker — The Equal Opportunity to be a Legislator: Why Randomly Selecting Legislators is More Democratic than Electing Them
Andrew Stewart — The Life and Death of the State of Nature
Emmanuel Cuisinier — Challenges and Contentions to Romantic Love in Spinoza’s Ethics
Bowen Chan — Fairness, Friendship, and Proportionality
Shoshana McClarence — Existentialism and Mysticism: Bridging the Divide Between the Individual and the Interconnectivity
Sherri Irvin — Policing, Racialization, and Resistance: An Aesthetic Analysis (Keynote)

2020 Conference Program

Grady Stuckman — The Scope of Religious Freedom: Is There Room for Conscientious Objection in Healthcare?
Alex K. Sell — Algorithmic Storytelling: the Narrative of Predictive Analytics
Ayoob Shahmoradi — Seeing As Seeing-as and Thinking As Thinking-as
David Cortright — Memory and Meaning: Kent State after 50 Years (Keynote)
Dovie Jenkins — Sexism as Epistemic Negligence
Clint Hurshman — Longino's Forgotten Virtue: The Epistemic Necessity of Novelty
Matthew Turyn — Emotions & Motivations in Tappolet's Perceptual Theory

2019 Conference Program

Sofia Paz — A Defense of Hume's Theory of Action
David DeMatteo — Practical Identity and Practical Principles: Kant contra Korsgaard
Cullin Brown — Toleration and Equality in Public Institutions
Troy Seagraves — Reasons and Virtue: an Aristotelian Constructivism
Jenny Marsh — Kant on the Justification of Empirical vs. A Priori Concepts
Marcia Baron — Reasonableness (Keynote)
Julian D. Rios Acuña — Imagining Politics Otherwise: Ontology, Globalization and Absolute Locality in Adriana Cavaero
Bailey Szustak — Captain America, Nazi: Why Identity Conditions for Fictional Characters Matter

2018 Conference Program

Adam White — Constitutional Revision: Term Accountability
James Darcy — Grounding Necessitation and Composition
Colin Bodayle — Hegel on Infinite Judgments
David Wood — The End of the World as We Know It (Keynote)
Min Tang — Poetry, Aesthetic Truths, and Transformative Experience
Zach Thanasilangkul — Anarchism in the Wake of Marx: Subjectivity, Self-Activity, and Emancipation
Javiera Perez-Gomez — Microaggressions

2017 Conference Program

Ross Colebrook — Does it Matter Whether Morality is Objective?
Bryan Maddox — Active Interpretation: Arendt’s Hermeneutics of Dissent
Michael Gregory — The Ontological Foundations of Holism
Rachel McNealis — Hetero-Next-uals: Rupturing Straight Time in Cringeworthy Phases of Sexual Experimentation
Walter Reid — Suffering, Self-Knowledge, and the Limits of Pessimism
Evan Woods — The Wrongful Inclusion Problem and Jenkins' Analysis of Gender Concepts
David Danks — Trust and the Ethics of Autonomous Machines (Keynote)
Ryan Felder — Moral Responsibility and Liability of Defensive Harm
Camille Charette — Art Before Science: A Deweyan Analysis of Artwork as a Model and Means of Growth
Joseph Dunne — Here I Stand: Religious Conscience and Legal Exemptions