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FSU philosophy alumni Kyle G. Fritz and Daniel Miller have had their paper, “A Standing Asymmetry Between Blame and Forgiveness,” accepted for publication in Ethics.

FSU philosophy alum Paul Rezkalla (currently Arete Professorial Fellow at Hillsdale College) has been made a 2021-2022 Philosophy in the Media Fellow. The Marc Sanders Foundation’s Philosophy in Media initiative aims to bring philosophy to the general public by providing selected philosophers with training and media contacts.

Marshall Thompson received the Outstanding Graduate Paper Award for his paper, “Kant, Moral Worth, and the Basing Relation,” presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association.

The 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held at Princeton University from June 10-13th, 2020. The conference is known as one of the leading philosophy and psychology conferences in the country and boasts an acceptance rate that rivals top journals of philosophy. Seven different projects, which include 5 graduate and 2 undergraduate student authors, will be presented at the conference.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Nathanael Stein has been awarded an NEH fellowship to complete a forthcoming book about causation and explanation in Aristotle.

Matthew Jernberg received the Outstanding Graduate Paper Award for his paper, “Is Death Bad for You After You Die?,” presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association.

Original research presented by FSU graduate student Christopher Kalbach at the 45th meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in San Diego was recently awarded the prize for best poster!

Nick Byrd, a doctoral candidate in FSU’s Department of Philosophy, and Paul Conway, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, collaborated on thought-provoking research focusing on the psychology of making moral decisions.  Their paper, entitled "Not all who ponder count costs: Arithmetic reflection predicts utilitarian tendencies, but logical reflection predicts both deontological and utilitarian tendencies", was published in Cognition. 

X-Phi Bern 2019 will be held from September 19-21th, 2019. This international conference will feature major speakers from around the globe, and we are proud of our graduate students for their hard work and international recognition!

Graduate Students from the FSU X-Phi Research Group will be presenting their research projects at one of the most exclusive conferences in the country, the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. With roughly a 5% acceptance rate, we are proud of our student researchers!