Allison Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, presented her work at an invited philosophy department colloquium at UC Berkeley (Jan) and gave comments at the Stanford Metaethics and Ancient Philosophy Conference (Feb). Her review of David Ebrey’s book Plato’s Phaedo was also published in Mind in February. In June, she will begin a year-long Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg in Germany where she will be collaborating with Dr. Philipp Bruellmann, an internationally renowned expert on Hellenistic philosophy, and continuing her research project on Stoic ethics.
Juan Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, received a Dean's Early Career Award, in recognition for "outstanding achievements in research and teaching, and service contributions to Georgia State." Before taking a one-year Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Tübingen, he will present work on philosophy of action for the University of Glasgow's Senior Seminar in May, and will then chair the 2024 annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association in June.
Eddy Nahmias, professor of philosophy and neuroscience, was coauthor with Eyal Aharoni and several others of “Attributions toward Artificial Agents in a modified Moral Turing Test,” forthcoming in Scientific Reports. He chaired two of the four sessions he organized as a member of the program committee for the APA Central in New Orleans in February, one on Public Philosophy and one on Chatbots and AI. Nahmias presented “How to Build a Robot with Free Will” at Agnes Scott College in February and as a keynote at the International Colloquium of Philosophy of Neuroscience in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in April.
Sebastian Rand, associate professor of philosophy, presented “Disinterpretation and Algebra” at the Australian Hegel Society annual meeting (online) in December, as part of a session on Paul Redding’s Conceptual Harmonies (Chicago, 2023), a work on Hegel’s understanding of proportion and ratio. His paper “The Psychical Relation,” on Hegel's discussion of pregnancy, was published that same month as a chapter in L. Corti, J.-G. Schülein (eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature (Springer, 2023). In Spring Semester 2024 he is visiting associate professor across town at Emory University, teaching a graduate seminar on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, alongside his regular teaching at GSU.
Neil Van Leeuwen, professor of philosophy, was a featured author at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology this March, where there was an author-meets-critics panel on his new book, Religion as Make-Believe. He was also a guest recently on the Data Over Dogma podcast and will give a keynote at the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion conference in June.