Research
General description of the department's research areas of strength.
Summary of current major projects/grants.
Mention of recent notable/prominent achievements, publications.
Then a list by year of publications, under toggles as below (there is pre-existing content in 2012)
Notable Research, 2017
Notable Research, 2016
Notable Research, 2015
Notable Research, 2014
Notable Research, 2013
Research update 2012
- MA student Alanna Dyck presented her paper "Ethical Ramifications for a Proposed FTA Between India and the EU" at the 2012 Gobal Studies Conference. This same paper is being published in the Spring 2013 issue of Perspectives on Global Developments and Technology.
- Endre Begby had five papers appear in print in the last half year: "Concepts and Abilities in Anti-Individualism" in Journal of Philosophy, "The Ethics of War, Part I: Historical Trends" and "Part II: Contemporary Authors and Issues" (both co-authored with Gregory Reichberg and Henrik Syse) in Philosophy Compass, "Collective Responsibility for Unjust Wars" in Politics, and "Semantic Minimalism and the 'Miracle of Communication'" in Philosophical Studies. He gave talks at the University of Chicago, the University of Victoria, SFU, and the 2012 European Society for Philosophy and Psychology meeting in London.
- Mark McPherran has had five papers accepted for publication so far this year. The book chapter "Socratic Theology and Piety" will appear in the Continuum Companion to Socrates. "Virtue, Luck and Choice at the End of the Republic" also appears as a book chapter in The Cambridge Critical Guide to the Republic (edited by Mark McPherran) as well as in Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Honor of David Keyt. Other articles include "Socrates' Refutation of Gorgias: Gorgias 447c-461b" in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, "Socrates and Aesop in Plato's Phaedo" in Apeiron, and "Comments on Chung-ying Cheng's 'World Humanities as Based on Self-Reflection of the Human Person and Global Interaction of Traditions'" in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy. Dr. McPherran was a commentator at the 2012 SFU Symposium on World Humanities, and was an invited presenter at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA in Seattle.
- Lisa Shapiro's paper "Cartesian Selves" was presented at Cornell University in March and will appear in revised form in Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide, ed. Karen Detlefsen, Cambridge UP. The final proofs for Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, co-edited with Martin Pickavé are done, and the volume will be appearing with Oxford University Press in November. "The Outward and Inward Beauty of Early Modern Women" appears in a special issue on 17th Century women philosophers in Revue philosophique in late 2012.