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33rd Annual �鶹��ѡPhilosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th

Saturday, March 28th, 2026

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Lanei Rodemeyer 

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Duquesne University

Prof. Matthew Coate, Program Coordinator

Logistics

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Free parking is available for conference participants in the Student Center visitor lot (free on weekends). View a map .  Details, scroll down to "Kent Student Center Visitors"

If you have questions please contact: philconf@kent.edu

32nd Annual �鶹��ѡPhilosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th 

Saturday, March 1st, 2025

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Graham Priest 

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
CUNY Graduate Center

Prof. Matthew Coate, Program Coordinator

Logistics

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Free parking is available for conference participants in the Student Center visitor lot (free on weekends). View a map .  Details, scroll down to "Kent Student Center Visitors"

If you have questions please contact: philconf@kent.edu

31st Annual �鶹��ѡPhilosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th 

Saturday, March 16th, 2024

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Anthony Steinbock 

Professor of Philosophy
Stony Brook University

Prof. Matthew Coate, Program Coordinator

Logistics

For directions, please visit the �鶹��ѡ website.

Free parking is available for conference participants in the Student Center visitor lot (free on weekends). View a map .  Details, scroll down to "Kent Student Center Visitors"

If you have questions please contact: philconf@kent.edu

• Vincent Tanzil — Intuition as Evidence
• J.A. Littler — The Jesus Who Cannot Save
• William Schumacher — Reasonableness Requires Good Reasoning
• Marlon Rivas Tinoco — Believing Rationally Given Your Actual Beliefs
• Najii Wilcox — Refusal and Double Consciousness
• Colby Clark — What is the Right Unit for the Ecological Resilience Concept?
• John Nolt — The Long-term Non-anthropocentric Ethics of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss (Keynote)

• Yifan Wang — Old Wine in New Bottle? A Marxist Critique of the Trend of Sustainable Brands
• Steven Winterfeldt — The Content of Perception: Inadequacy and Transcendence
• Sterling Hall — Haraway at the Crossroads: On Two Types of Materialism in the ‘Cyborg Manifesto’
• Isaac Shur — Should Private Property Rights Have Term Limits?
• William Burgess Applegate — Making the Implicit Explicit: The Narrative Self in Cavarero's Relating Narratives
• Jordan Myers — Replacing Retribution with Reactivity: How Restorative Justice Reduces Offender Harm
• Laura Hengehold — Locating Gendered Affects in the Political Imaginary (Keynote)

• Katherine Brichacek — A Tale of Two Movements: Hannah Arendt’s Inconsistently Nonideal Political Action in Zionism and the Civil Rights Movement
• Eric Shoemaker — The Equal Opportunity to be a Legislator: Why Randomly Selecting Legislators is More Democratic than Electing Them
• Andrew Stewart — The Life and Death of the State of Nature
• Emmanuel Cuisinier — Challenges and Contentions to Romantic Love in Spinoza’s Ethics
• Bowen Chan — Fairness, Friendship, and Proportionality
• Shoshana McClarence — Existentialism and Mysticism: Bridging the Divide Between the Individual and the Interconnectivity
• Sherri Irvin — Policing, Racialization, and Resistance: An Aesthetic Analysis (Keynote)

• Grady Stuckman — The Scope of Religious Freedom: Is There Room for Conscientious Objection in Healthcare?
• Alex K. Sell — Algorithmic Storytelling: the Narrative of Predictive Analytics
• Ayoob Shahmoradi — Seeing As Seeing-as and Thinking As Thinking-as
• David Cortright — Memory and Meaning: �鶹��ѡafter 50 Years (Keynote)
• Dovie Jenkins — Sexism as Epistemic Negligence
• Clint Hurshman — Longino's Forgotten Virtue: The Epistemic Necessity of Novelty
• Matthew Turyn — Emotions & Motivations in Tappolet's Perceptual Theory

• Sofia Paz — A Defense of Hume's Theory of Action
• David DeMatteo — Practical Identity and Practical Principles: Kant contra Korsgaard
• Cullin Brown — Toleration and Equality in Public Institutions
• Troy Seagraves — Reasons and Virtue: an Aristotelian Constructivism
• Jenny Marsh — Kant on the Justification of Empirical vs. A Priori Concepts
• Marcia Baron — Reasonableness (Keynote)
• Julian D. Rios Acuña — Imagining Politics Otherwise: Ontology, Globalization and Absolute Locality in Adriana Cavaero
• Bailey Szustak — Captain America, Nazi: Why Identity Conditions for Fictional Characters Matter

• Adam White — Constitutional Revision: Term Accountability
• James Darcy — Grounding Necessitation and Composition
• Colin Bodayle — Hegel on Infinite Judgments
• David Wood — The End of the World as We Know It (Keynote)
• Min Tang — Poetry, Aesthetic Truths, and Transformative Experience
• Zach Thanasilangkul — Anarchism in the Wake of Marx: Subjectivity, Self-Activity, and Emancipation
• Javiera Perez-Gomez — Microaggressions

• Ross Colebrook — Does it Matter Whether Morality is Objective?
• Bryan Maddox — Active Interpretation: Arendt’s Hermeneutics of Dissent
• Michael Gregory — The Ontological Foundations of Holism
• Rachel McNealis — Hetero-Next-uals: Rupturing Straight Time in Cringeworthy Phases of Sexual Experimentation
• Walter Reid — Suffering, Self-Knowledge, and the Limits of Pessimism
• Evan Woods — The Wrongful Inclusion Problem and Jenkins' Analysis of Gender Concepts
• David Danks — Trust and the Ethics of Autonomous Machines (Keynote)
• Ryan Felder — Moral Responsibility and Liability of Defensive Harm
• Camille Charette — Art Before Science: A Deweyan Analysis of Artwork as a Model and Means of Growth
• Joseph Dunne — Here I Stand: Religious Conscience and Legal Exemptions