Allison Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy and law, gave her paper, “Loving Learning: Plato’s philosophical dogs and the education of the guardians”, at the University of Missouri’s Philosophy Department Colloquium (Sep 2021) and will be presenting this paper as a Symposium at the Eastern APA (Jan 2022).
Eyal Aharoni, associate professor of psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, recently published "Correctional “Free Lunch”? Cost Neglect Increases Punishment in Prosecutors," on Frontiers in Psychology.
Andrew I. Cohen, professor of philosophy and Director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, won the Faculty Award for Undergraduate Research sponsored by the GSU Undergraduate Research Conference. He is coediting an anthology (with Kathryn McClymond of Oglethorpe University) on moral injury. Cohen is also soon to publish two new entries in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics on themes related to moral repair.
Bill Edmundson, Regents' professor of law and philosophy, published the book Socialism for Soloists, Cambridge: Polity Press (September 2021). He also published his article, “In Such Ways as Promise Some Success,” The Harvard Review of Philosophy, volume XXVIII (online Sept. 10, 2021). He presented "Political Equality, Epistocracy, and Expensive Tastes,” for John Rawls: Moral Imagination for the XXI Century, Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo, November 11, 2021, and presented “Abraham Lincoln as Political Philosopher,” for Ninth Annual Oxford Studies Workshop for Political Philosophy, University of Arizona, October 14-17, 2021.
S.M. Love, assistant professor of philosophy, gave a colloquium at the University of South Carolina on Friday, November 6, 2021. Her talk was entitled “The Right to Freedom.”
Juan Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, has two new publications: “The Puzzle of Learning by Doing and the Gradability of Knowledge-How”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and “Acquittal from Knowledge Laundering”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
Neil Van Leeuwen, associate professor of philosophy and neuroscience, has a new publication, "To Believe Is Not to Think: A Cross-Cultural Finding," Open Mind, 2021. He will be speaking at the Credition2021 Symposium: Credition - An Interdisciplinary Challenge, in Hannover, Germany, December 2021. He received a grant from the Templeton foundation to cohost the Nature of Belief Seminar Series with Tania Lombrozo, Princeton.
Eddy Nahmias, professor of philosophy and neuroscience, and department chair, published with Eyal Aharoni, David Simpson (MA 2021), and Mario Gollwitzer: “A painful message: Testing the effects of suffering and understanding on punishment judgments” in Zeitschrift für Psychologie. With Aharoni and Corey Allen (PhD in neuroscience 2021), he wrote “Neuro-interventions as Punishment” for the Neuroethics Blog. He was interviewed about free will for the Italian magazine maize. In June he gave a talk “Free Will in the Brain” for the University of Tyumen (alas, online and not in Russia). And in October he gave a talk at Duke University: “What Robots Can Teach us about Whether and Why Consciousness Matters for Free Will.”
Sebastian Rand, associate professor of philosophy, co-organized and presented a paper, “World-historical Technologies,” at a three-day online conference in honor of Terry Pinkard (Georgetown) on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (October 15-17, 2021). The co-organizers were Kate Padgett-Walsh (Iowa State) and Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins). The conference featured 18 speakers, from Australia, Germany, France, the UK, and the US. A collected volume based on the papers presented should appear with Routledge toward the end of 2022. He will be a session chair and discussant in a three-day workshop on Hegel’s Anthropology at the German-Italian Center for European Dialogue, on Lake Como, November 3-5. The workshop is co-sponsored by the German Research Foundation and includes 18 participants, from Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US.
Andrea Scarantino, professor of philosophy and neuroscience, published "Emotional Expressions as Appeals to Recipients", co-authored with Shlomo Hareli and Ursula Hess, Emotion (2021). He published "The Rise of Affectivism", a position paper co-authored with 63 other authors, first authors Daniel Dukes and David Sander, Nature (2021). He also published, “Exploring the Roles of Emotions in Self-Control”. In Surrounding Self-Control, edited by Al Mele, Oxford University Press (2020). He also gave several presentations, including a talk at UGA in October 2021 at the Philosophy Department and Institute for Artificial Intelligence: "Can Robots Have Emotions?", the keynote for the conference "Languaging Diversity" at the University of Lille, France, in October 2021: "How to Do Things with Emotional Expressions," and the keynote for the annual meeting of the Italian Society for Cognitive Sciences in Parma, June 2022: "Emotions Are for Doing, Not for Feeling."