Graduate Achievements
Recent publications
Cho, Chris. (forthcoming). “Why Soft-Liners Must Be Responsibility Skeptics or Bite the Bullet”. Philosophical Studies.
Cho, Chris. (forthcoming). “Against Soft-Line Structuralism”. Philosophical Exchange.
Lee, Sanggu. (forthcoming). “Against Modal Humeanism,” Analytic Philosophy.
Oliveira, Felipe. (forthcoming). "Internalism about Mansplaining". Forthcoming in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly.
Freiles, Antonio. (forthcoming). “The Truthmaking Account of Ontological Dependence”. Forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
Xavier de Melo, Thiago. (forthcoming). “Position-Relative Naturalness”. Forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy (https://txdemelo.github.io/assets/pdf/paper-Melo-Position-relative-Naturalness.pdf).
Cho, Chris. (2026). “Deflating and Debunking: A Case for Hard-Line Structuralism”. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.70123).
Oliveira, Felipe. (2026). “Truth Norm’s Time-Indexed Obligations”. Synthese (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05437-1).
Oliveira, Felipe. (2026). "Whitesplaining & Racesplaining: A Philosophical Account". Published in Into the Fire: The Intersection of Race and Communication. Ed. Leland Harper. Vernon Press.
Cho, Chris. (2025). “Towards agent modalist reasons-sensitivity”. The Philosophical Quarterly (https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaf058).
Head, Kellan. (2025). “Resonance, Alienation, and Cognitive Subjectivism about Well-being”. The Journal of Ethics (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-025-09545-5).
Rozas, Matt (co-authored with Oscar Horta). (2025). "Animals and Longtermism”. World Futures, 81(2), 85–95. (https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2024.242471).
Bousquet, Chris. (2025). “Review of F.M. Kamm’s Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics”. Journal of Moral Philosophy (https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-20221205).
Xavier de Melo, Thiago. (2025). “Negative natural properties, categories, and mistakes”. Synthese (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05294-y).
Rozas, Matt. (2024). "How not to Avoid the Very Repugnant Conclusion (Cómo no evitar la conclusión muy repugnante)”. Análisis Filosófico (https://doi.org/10.36446/af.e1019).
Bousquet, Chris. (2023). “Work and Social Alienation”. Philosophical Studies (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-022-01880-9).
Abbas, Aatif. (2023). “Businesses, Technological Innovations, and Responsibility”. Business and Professional Ethics Journal (https://doi.org/10.5840/bpej20231017144).
Bruno, Teresa. (2023). “The Power of Belief: Cognitive Resonance, Objectivism, and Well-being”. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-022-10346-0).
Bousquet, Chris. (2022). “Words that Harm: Defending the Dignity Approach to Hate Speech Regulation”. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (https://doi.org/10.1017/cjlj.2021.18).
Bruno, Teresa. (2022). “Well-Being and Ill-Being”. Midwest Studies in Philosophy (https://doi.org/10.5840/msp2022112529).
Swiderski, Jan. (2022). “Varieties of Metaphysical Coherentism”. Erkenntnis (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00607-w).
D’Angelo, Lorenza. (2022). “Emotional Experience and the Senses”. Philosophers’ Imprint (https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.2115).
Patterson, Adam. (2021). “Getting All Emotional About the Fear of Death”. in Death, Immortality, and Eternal Life, edited by T Ryan Byerly. Routledge.
Dular, Nicole and Fortier, Nikki. (2021). “Epistemic Reasons, Transparency, and Evolutionary Debunking”. Philosophia (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00302-6).
Patterson, Adam. (2020). “Epistemic Slurs: A Novel Explicandum and Adequacy Constraint for Slur Theories”. Erkenntnis (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00288-3).
Recent presentations
Chen, Shiyu. (2026). "What Determines the Value of a Life? Evaluating the Mere Shape and End-of-Life Views." Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress 19th Annual Meeting (poster session), August 6, 2026 - August 10, 2026.
Chen, Shiyu (2026). Comments on Maya Eden and Shlomi Segall's "Random People: A Mixed Strategy Approach to Decision Paralysis in Population Ethics." Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress 19th Annual Meeting (poster session), August 6, 2026 - August 10, 2026.
Chen, Shiyu. (2026). "Can the Mere Upward Shape Itself Affect the Value of Our Lives?". The Society for Philosophy and Psychology 52nd Annual Meeting (poster session), June 17, 2026 - June 20, 2026.
Chen, Shiyu. (2026). "How Can Epistemic Purists Escape the Argument from Akrasia?". The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division 122nd Annual Meeting (colloquium session), January 7, 2026 - January 10, 2026.
Ding, Wentao. (2026). “New Grounding Account of Governance". Asian Philosophy of Science Association Conference, July 22, 2026 - July 24, 2026. Also presented at the Society for Metaphysics of Science Annual Conference, May 25, 2026 - May 27, 2026.
Ding, Wentao. (2026). "The Humean Account of Moral Laws (for Non-naturalism)". Frankfurt Metaethics Conference, June 19, 2026 - June 20, 2026. Also presented at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (workshop session, online), April 2026.
Lee, Sanggu. (2026) “Against Two Truthmaker Accounts of Ontological Commitment”. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (workshop session, online), April 2026.
Kuciel, Aleksandra. (2026). “Rescuing the Desire to Know Account of Curiosity”. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Conference, March 2026. Also presented at the Indiana Philosophical Association, November 2025.
Chen, Shiyu. (2025). "Is It Irrationally Akratic to Act Against Our Belief About Objective Obligation?". The Society for Philosophy and Psychology 51st Annual Meeting (poster session), June 19, 2025 - June 21, 2025.
Freiles, Antonio. (2025). “The Truthmaking Account of Ontological Dependence”. Papers in Progress Workshop at the Eastern American Philosophical Association, New York, January 2025. Versions of the paper were also presented at the following: (i) Ontological Dependence, Grounding and their Applications, Padova, IT, May 2024; (ii) 2023 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society, London, UK, July 2023.
Freiles, Antonio. (2025). “Comments on Maegan Fairchild’s ‘Sentimental Kinds’”. Metaphysics in the Blue Ridge, Blacksburg, VA, June 2025.
Freiles, Antonio. (2025). Comments on Owen Clifton’s, “Does the Value of Rational Activity Explain the Badness of Human Extinction?”. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, New York NY, January 2025.
Kuciel, Aleksandra. (2025). “Dualism, Physicalism, and the Hard Problem of the Many”. Presented at the following: (i) Alabama Philosophical Society 60th Annual Meeting, September 2025, (ii) Arche Graduate Conference: University of St Andrews, October 2025, (iii) University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate Conference, November 2025, (iv) Vilnius University Graduate Conference, November 2025.
Nalty, Sean. (2025). "Species Essences with Evolved Character". American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting (held online).
Pan, Tong. (2025). “Essence, Supervenience, and Non-Naturalism”. Presented at the Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference, Toronto, CAN, October 2025.
Bousquet, Chris. (2024). “Interests on Stilts”. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting (Symposium paper), February 2024. Also presented at the 21st Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, September 2023.
Cho, Chris (2024). “Responding to Cyr: A Defense of Historicism”. University of Iowa Graduate Philosophy Conference.
Cho, Chris (2024). “Towards Agent Modalist Reasons-Sensitivity”. Florida State University Free Will and Agency Conference.
Freiles, Antonio. (2024). “Material plenitude for Fineans”. Metaphysical Mayhem, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2025. Also presented at the following: (i) 2025 USC-UCLA Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Los Angeles CA, April 2025; (ii) Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference, Toronto CAN, October 2024; (iii) American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, New York NY, January 2024.
Freiles, Antonio. (2024). Comments on Yasha Sapir’s, “Vague Assertions”. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, New Orleans LA, February 2024.
Harrison, Autumn. (2024). Comments on Andrew Smith, “Hope for the Future: MacAskill’s Argument for Optimism in What We Owe the Future”. Illinois Philosophical Association, October 2024.
Harrison, Autumn. (2024). “Gender Without Gender Identity and the Risk of Misgendering”. Illinois Philosophical Association, October 2024.
Harrison, Autumn (2024). “Gender Without Gender Identity and the Risk of Misgendering”. 85th Virginia Philosophical Association Annual Conference, October 2024.
Head, Kellan. (2024). “Lucky Doxastic Justification”. Simon Fraser University Workshop on Luck and Achievement.
Head, Kellan. (2024). “Against Veritism”. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. Also presented at the following: (i) 168th Meeting of the Creighton Club, NYS Philosophical Society (Co-winner of the Graduate Student Presentation Award); (ii) Edgington Lectures Workshop, Birkbeck, University of London 2023.
Head, Kellan. (2024). “Internalist Perspectives on Moral Encroachment?”. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, 2024. Also presented at the following: (i) Understanding Value Conference XI, University of Sheffield 2023; (ii) Mark L. Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference, Brown University 2023.
Head, Kellan. (2024). Comments on Cristina Ballarini’s “Uncertainty in Credence and Belief”. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, 2024.
Ho, Hwan. (2024). “Coincidence objects and the Principles of Plenitude”. Presented at the Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference, Toronto, CAN, October 2024.
Kuciel, Aleksandra. (2024). Comments on Gabriel Siegel’s Can Basic Perceptual Features be Learned? American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, February 2024.
Patterson, Adam (2024). “Explaining the Unique Well-being Alienations and Deprivations of Group Agents.” Eighth Annual Meeting of The PPE Society, New Orleans, LA.
Cho, Chris. (2023). “Is There a Duty to Adopt? Evaluating the Assistance Argument”. SPEL Conference, University of Binghamton.
De Melo, Thiago. (2023). “Reductive Positionalism”. Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers University, 2023."
Freiles, Antonio. (2023). “If Numbers, then Internal Relations”. ECAP11, Vienna, AT, August 2023.
Harrison, Autumn. (2023). Comments on Kellan Head, “Against Veritism”. Creighton Club, October 2023, https://creightonclub.blogspot.com/2023/.
Harrison, Autumn. (2023). “Which Trans Identities Should We Accept and Which Not?”. Binghamton University Philosophy Graduate Conference, November 2023.
Head, Kellan. (2023). “Alienation, Idealization, and Judgment Subjectivism”. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, 2023.
Kuciel, Aleksandra. (2023). Comments on Nihel Jhou’s A Sarvāstivādin-Style Growing Block Theory. American Philosophical Association Eastern Dividion Meeting, January 2023.
Head, Kellan. (2022). “Sacrificing Epistemic Goods: A New Argument Against Moral Encroachment”. Responsibility for Belief Conference, University of Helsinki. Also presented at the following: (i) Eastern American Philosophical Association, poster session, 2023; (ii) Central States Philosophy Association Conference, 2022; (iii) Graduate Epistemology Conference, University of Rochester, 2022; University of Iowa Graduate Philosophy Society Conference, 2022.
Head, Kellan. (2022). Comments on Brandon Williams’ “Choose Error Theory or Realism”. Central States Philosophy Association Conference.
Head, Kellan. (2022). Comments on Michael Sechman’s “Attitudes: States Not Traits”. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, 2022.
Bousquet, Chris. (2022). “What’s Missing in Interest-Based Theories of Rights”. The 167th Meeting of the Creighton Club, October 2022.
Bousquet, Chris. (2022). “Interest-Based Theories of Rights Gone Wrong”. Conference on Rights, Respect, and Wellbeing at University of Zurich, October 2022.
Bousquet, Chris. (2022). “Work and Social Alienation” . American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting (Symposium paper), January 5-8, 2022. Also presented at the following: (i) Significance of Work Conference at Tilburg University, August 2021; (ii) Rome XIV at University of Colorado, August 2021; (iii) UNC Charlotte Ethics and Applied Philosophy Graduate Conference, April 2021.
De Melo, Thiago. (2022). Naïve Positionalism and Relative Discernibility,'. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver BC, 2022. Also presented at the Conference of the Creighton Club, Hamilton NY, 2022. (Winner of the Graduate Student Presentation Award).
Patterson, Adam. (2022). “Getting All Emotional About Being Dead”. Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying, Melbourne, AU.
Bousquet, Chris. (2021). “Words that Harm: Defending the Dignity Approach to Hate Speech Regulation”. UCLA/USC Graduate Conference in Philosophy, April 2021.
Bousquet, Chris. (2021). “Racist Hate Speech, Speech Act Theory, and the First Amendment”. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, February 2021.
De Melo, Thiago. (2021). “The Naturalness of Negative Properties: a case for category-relativism”. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, 2021.
Patterson, Adam. (2020). “Avoid Avoiding the Wishful Thinking Problem”. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting (Symposium paper).
De Melo, Thiago. (2019). “Within the Predicate: Non-symmetric Relations and Comparative Naturalness”. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Denver CO, 2019.
Recent awards
Freiles, Antonio. (2026) SURE Grant (https://graduateschool.syr.edu/about/awards/sure/).
Freiles, Antonio. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2026.
Lieblein, Liam. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2026.
Sholl, Victor. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2025.
Head, Kellan. Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award. 2025.
Head, Kellen. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2024.
Nalty, Sean. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2024.
Sholl, Victor. Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award. 2024.
Bousquet, Chris. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2023.
De Melo, Thiago. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2023.
Abbas, Aatif. Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award. 2023.
Demirtaş, Huzeyfe. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2021.
Swiderski, Jan. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2021.
Tignor, Joshua. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 2021.
D’Angelo, Lorenza. Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award. 2021.
Demirtaş, Huzeyfe. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2021.
Swiderski, Jan. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2021.
Tignor, Joshua. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2021.