Graduate Achievements
Recent publications
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).
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).
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).
Swiderski, Jan. (2022). “Varieties of Metaphysical Coherentism”. Erkenntnis (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00607-w).
Recent presentations
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 Megan 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cho, Chris (2023). “Is There a Duty to Adopt? Evaluating the Assistance Argument”. SPEL Conference, University of Binghamton.
Head, Kellan (2023). “Alienation, Idealization, and Judgment Subjectivism”. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, 2023.
"De Melo, Thiago (2023). “Reductive Positionalism”. Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers University, 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.
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).
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 (2021). “The Naturalness of Negative Properties: a case for category-relativism”. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, 2021.
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.
Recent awards
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.