The Mentoring Workshop 2023: Cohorts
Date:
June 11-13, 2023
Location:
University of Missouri
Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science | Mentor: Joyce C. Havstad
Room: Strickland Hall 113
o Bondurant, Self-Knowing as an Epistemic Virtue
o Dang, Group Belief Revision and Scientific Change
o Falbo, Inquiry for the Mistaken and Confused
o Koslow, Going on in Not the Same Way
o Thompson, Justifying Participatory Research: Distinguishing Political and Epistemic Reasons
o Zhao, Non-Epistemic Values For Epistemic Gaps
Philosophy of Mind | Mentor: Nico Orlandi
Room: Strickland Hall 115
o Barranco Lopez, Commitment Normativism: A Novel Normativist Approach to the Nature of Belief
o Landers, Sexist Perception
o Rosen, My dream body and me
o Soter, Rethinking (In)voluntarism
o Vaughn, Molyneux’s Question and Common Sensibles
Ethics | Mentor: Anne Margaret Baxley
Room: Strickland Hall 304
o Dean, Food Ethics and the Family
o Donohue, The Scylla and Charybdis of Paternalism and Moral Complicity
o Flowerree, The Ethics of Interpretation
o Johnson King, The Slow Clap Phenomenon
o McDonald, Speech Acts and Normative Powers
Moral Psychology | Mentor: Lisa Tessman
Room: Strickland Hall 305
o Kostochka, A Little Mood Music: Aesthetic Mood and Its Relationship to Psychological Mood
o Phillips-Garrett, Contempt, Self-Respect, and Humanity
o Ren, A Zhuangist Defense of Resilience
o Schmidt, Toxic Positivity and Emotional Mistreatment
Philosophy of Gender | Mentor: Ami Harbin
Room: Strickland Hall 306
o Bell, Playful Resistance: Gender Norms as Games
o Ciurria, Academic Philosophy and White Supremacy Culture: Intersecting Oppressions
o Corredor, Moral Transitions and Bad Sex
o Edell, The scapegoat logic behind anti-transgender legislation
o Sullivan, Zhuangzi and Contemporary Cisheteronormativity: A Critically Eclectic Approach to Trans and Queer Philosophy
Oppression Theory | Mentor: Alison Reiheld
Room: MU Student Center 2206 A/B
o Forbes, On Wooing [epistemic dimension of patriarchal power]
o Greene, John Stuart Mill, the Jamaica Committee, and Racial Whiteness as Property
o Martín, Is Oppression Group-Based? An Alternative Conception of Oppression
o Stewart, To Respond or Not to Respond? Microaggressions and Double-Binds
o Thomas, The Creation of the “Other”: America’s “Sick Civilization” and Epistemic Silencing·
Political and Legal Philosophy | Mentor: Lori Watson
Room: Strickland Hall 309
o Heydari Fard, Diversity, Polarization, and Dynamic Structures: A Structural Turn in Social Contract Theory
o Kling, The Ethics and Politics of Uncivil Obedience
o Lemay, Going With and Against the Tide: the Global Movement Against Gender-Based Violence and Solidarity Theory
o O’Brien, Standing Outside the Law
o Szende, Human Rights and the Exclusion of the Stateless
o Wirts, Mixed Messages: The Risks and Failures of Expressivist Justifications for Criminal Law Responses to Gender-Based Violence
Bioethics | Mentor: Karen Stohr
Room: Strickland Hall 311
o Clune-Taylor, Arguments for a Ban on Intersex Surgeries: A Dis/Analogy with Jehovah Witness Blood Transfusion
o Fice, Privilege and Vaccine Resistance
o Finley, Mad Pride, Mental Disorder, and Identity
o Kennedy, Pregnancy in the Face of Partial Ectogestation: A Choice or a Moral Obligation?
o Rees, Agential Corrosion and the Business of Medicine
o Valentine, Reparations for Racialized Reproductive Oppression
Continental Philosophy | Mentor: Cynthia Willett
Room: Student Center 2204
(*Note: Working group will be held in Student Center 2206C in the Monday, 6/12, 1:00pm block).
o Anthony, Figures of Suffering: Dionysus, Apollo, and Silenus
o Barillas, On Being Stuck: Powerlessness as Impotentiality
o Polish, Simone Weil’s Decreative Deduction
o Wieseler, Why ‘Impairment’ is Insufficient for Describing Embodied Experience
