Andrew J. Cohen, professor of Philosophy, was named a Visiting Fellow with the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University. Dr. Cohen will develop a principles-based way to apply ethics in civil discourse around difficult-to-discuss issues in a new book. The book encourages more open and honest discourse about ethically and politically fraught topics with guidance that helps readers to clarify their own views and understand those of others.
Andrew I. Cohen, professor of philosophy and director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, will be publishing a chapter on philosophy of education in an anthology about the humanities, coauthoring with Andrew Jason Cohen an article on censorship and free speech (slated for Public Affairs Quarterly), and, in Spanish, an essay on apologies and the law. Cohen presented some of his recent work on apologies at the 2022 annual meetings of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics.
Allison Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, gave her paper, “Loving Learning: Plato’s philosophical dogs and the education of the guardians”, as a Symposium at the Eastern APA Baltimore (Jan 2022). Her article “Giving Gifts and Making Friends: Seneca’s De beneficiis on how to expand one’s sphere of ethical concern” is forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (Summer 2022). She also received a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Course Development Grant from GSU for Summer 2022.
Juan Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, presented ongoing research in philosophy of action at the Society for the Philosophy of Agency Meeting held at the Central APA in February and stands to present a paper on moral psychology at the Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress in May. In addition, he presented comments on papers at the Eastern APA in February, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in March.
Eddy Nahmias, professor of philosophy and neuroscience, and department chair, was selected to be on the search committee for GSU’s next Provost. In February his article “Why We Have Free Will” was reprinted in a special edition of Scientific American, and he gave an interview for the podcast Plato’s Cave.
Neil Van Leeuwen, associate professor of philosophy, will be a scholar in residence for the month of May at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp. He is also scheduled to speak at the "What is Belief?" workshop at Princeton University on June 13, which he is co-organizing with Dr. Tania Lombrozo of Princeton's Department of Psychology.
Dan Weiskopf, professor of Philosophy, has an article entitled “The Predictive Turn in Neuroscience” forthcoming in Philosophy of Science.