Allison Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship will allow Dr. Piñeros Glasscock to spend the 24-25 academic year at the University of Heidelberg and collaborate with Dr. Philipp Bruellmann, an internationally renowned expert on Hellenistic philosophy. Dr. Piñeros Glasscock will complete work on a book manuscript tentatively titled, Making Good Friends: Stoic Ethics and Seneca on Benefaction. In addition, she received a William M. Calder III Memorial Fellowship in Classical Studies, which is awarded annually to early career, highly qualified Humboldt Research Fellows for research projects related to classical antiquity or to its reception in medieval and modern times.
Juan Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, published his first co-authored journal article with Mike Deigan (U Berlin), "A Fitting Definition of Epistemic Emotions" in Philosophical Quarterly, defending a restrictive account of epistemic emotions like surprise and curiosity in terms of their fittingness conditions. He presented work defending the view that we have a distinctive access to our friends's characters for the Alabama Philosophical Society Annual Conference (Pensacola, Fl), and for the Inquiry Network (online). He was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship to collaborate with Hong-Yu Wong at the University of Tübingen on a project on agential knowledge and skill. In recognition for his research, he was awarded the Ignite Early Career Research Impact Award in the area of Arts & Humanities at GSU.
Jessica Berry, professor of philosophy, hosted a meeting of the International Society for Nietzsche Studies (www.internationalnietzsche.org) at Georgia State in June 2023. Her paper, “‘Poor Mankind!’: Reexamining Nietzsche’s Critique of Compassion,” which is forthcoming in the journal Inquiry, was one of six papers under discussion at the annual event, and she has presented it as an invited colloquium to Philosophy departments at St. Norbert College in September, Western Michigan University in October, and the University of Memphis in November.
Andrew I. Cohen, professor and chair of philosophy, published an anthology he co-edited with Kathryn McClymond (President, Oglethorpe University), Moral Injury and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The book features chapters by leading scholars in the humanities discussing the growing significance of this phenomenon in the ethics of trauma. Among the chapters is one Cohen coauthored, “Theorizing Moral Injury with Reports of Trauma.”
Christie Hartley, professor of philosophy and acting director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, published “The Ties that Bind: Associations and the State” with Lori Watson in Cosmos + Taxis 11 (9&10) (2023): 4-13. With Ashley Lindsley-Kim, she presented “Feminist Commitment and Abortion” at the 7th Annual PPE Meeting in New Orleans on November 3rd.
Eddy Nahmias, professor of philosophy and neuroscience, was coauthor with Oisin Deery of “The Experience of Free Will” in The Blackwell Companion to Free Will. He presented “How to Build a Robot with Free Will” at the Georgia Philosophical Society meeting in October at Georgia College in Milledgeville.
Tim O’Keefe, professor of Philosophy, published the chapter “The Epicureanism of Lucretius” in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy.
Andrea Scarantino, professor of philosophy, published Hess U, Hareli S, Scarantino A. What is it about your face that tells me what you want from me? Emotional appeals are associated with specific mental images. Cogn Emot. 2023 Oct 17:1-10. He also applied for a cooperative grant called COST.
Neil Van Leeuwen, associate professor of philosophy, published his book, Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity with Harvard University Press on November 21, 2023.