Andrew I. Cohen, professor and chair of philosophy, had his work featured in a symposium in the Fall 2024 50th anniversary issue of Reason Papers. Four authors and Cohen contributed articles inspired by his book, Apologies and Moral Repair (Routledge, 2020). Contributing scholars were Bill Wringe, Cindy Holder, Mark LeBar, and Daniel Butt.
Lauren O'Dell, lecturer of philosophy, was an invited guest speaker at University of North Alabama and gave a talk on the use of trust devices in business.
Eddy Nahmias, professor of philosophy and neuroscience, was coauthor with Eyal Aharoni (and two others) on “Punishment after life: How attitudes about longer-than-life sentences expose the rules of retribution,” published in Behavioral Sciences, and “Chatbot Morality?” Nahmias presented “Degrees of Criminal Responsibility: Charting a Middle Path” at Duke University’s Centennial Conference. He was the coach for GSU’s Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl team and the Midtown High School Ethics Bowl team
Allison Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, is currently on a year-long Humboldt Research Fellowship at Universität Heidelberg in Germany where she is collaborating with Dr. Philipp Bruellmann, an internationally renowned expert on Hellenistic philosophy, and continuing her research project on Stoic ethics. This summer she co-presented (with Leonardo Serafini, Yale) a session of Yale’s week-long June Seminar (this year on Plato’s Charmides). She also presented her work on Plato and the Stoics at the Ancient Philosophy Colloquium at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and in two sessions of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar at Universität Heidelberg.
Juan Piñeros Glasscock, assistant professor of philosophy, has started his Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Tübingen. The fellowship has provided focused time for research, as well as opportunities for academic exchanges and dissemination, including his first keynote speech for the Philosophy of Neuroscience (PONS) Group. In addition, he has presented work on Aristotle (online, hosted at the University of Chicago), on modal epistemic principles (at Vanderbilt, for the Southeastern Epistemology Society), and on practical knowledge (at the University of Copenhagen). He is slated to present work on intentions for the Moral Psychology Research Network in December. Finally, Juan made his first podcast appearance for the Pop! Bioethics Podcast, speaking about responsibility for our choices in the context of Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Andrea Scarantino, professor of philosophy, is the editor of Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide, a landmark two-volume work with 62 chapters and 750,000 words, published by Routledge in 2024. His article “Motivational Constructs: Real, Causally Powerful, Not Psychologically Constructed” is forthcoming in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. This year, he presented his research at several international venues, including a workshop series on defining emotions and studying them in infants at Ochanomizu University in Japan (August 1–3, 2024), a talk titled “Can Robots Have Emotions?” at the ISRE Conference in Belfast (July 19, 2024), and a presentation on “The Psychosemantics of Emotions” at the Workshop on Emotions and Values at the University of Dubrovnik in Croatia (June 3–7, 2024).
Eric Wilson, associate professor of philosophy, published “Emotion in the Eighteenth Century,” in Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory, ed. Andrea Scarantino (New York: Routledge, 2024). He also gave a research presentation, “Hutcheson on Emotion Regulation and the Association of Ideas,” at the TEMPO Early Modern Philosophy Conference, Denver, April 2024.
Dan Weiskopf, professor of philosophy, published an article entitled “Panoramas as projections of the unconscious in nineteenth century fiction” in the inaugural volume of the Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook. This essay was co-authored with a group of art historians and artists (James Elkins, Arthur Kolat, and Julie Boldt). He also presented a talk on “Trading Evidence: The role of models in interfield coordination” at the Deep South Philosophy & Neuroscience Workgroup in Pensacola, FL this October.