Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was the invited guest on an episode of Nevada Independent en Español's "Cafecito con Luz y Michelle" program, for which she was interviewed about pre-college philosophy and a free, online, Spanish-language pre-college philosophy course she recently launched with financial support from a Whiting…
Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) published a paper, "Regions of Force: Peirce, Frege, Carroll and Bilateral Proof Trees," in the European logic journal, Logique & Analyse. The paper shows how distinct and overlooked diagrammatic insights in the logical notations of three 19th-century logicians are brought together in a novel…
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy), presented an invited (virtual) talk, "It Could've Been Beef: Meat Eating, Moral Responsibility, and COVID-19" for Utah State University's philosophy department. The talk was sponsored by the USU Philosophy Club.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited virtual talk, "Free Roaming Cats and Feline Wellbeing," at Seton Hall University. The talk, which focused on the morality of letting domestic cats roam outdoors, was co-sponsored by Seton Hall's Philosophy Club and The Veggie Society.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) launched a free, Spanish-language, virtual pre-college philosophy course entitled "FilosofÃa Infantil Sin Fronteras," with the support of a Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship. She was interviewed by Telemundo Las Vegas about the project as well.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented on a virtual symposium on her book Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice at the Third Annual International Forum on Migrants, Refugees and Human Rights, organized by Paso de Esperanza A.C. in Monterrey, Mexico.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) is the author of an article, "Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters & Epistemically Unjust Meat Producers," that has been published in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) created and launched the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals's Animal Ethics from the Margins (AEfM) project, which highlights the work of underrepresented voices in the animal ethics literature. The AEfM website features an early career bibliography, classic texts about animals (books and journal…
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) delivered comments on a paper, "Can I Be A Vegetarian Who Eats Meat?" by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby at the 13th annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME). She also co-organized the annual Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals pre-RoME workshop.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) was interviewed for the Wisdom at Work podcast about her work in public and academic philosophy, including her Philosophy for Children outreach in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a chapter, "It's Not Just a Personal Preference: Racialized Discrimination in the Tinder Context," in College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues that Affect You (Oxford University Press).
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Iván Sandoval Cervantes (Anthropology) published an op-ed in Salon, "Who Doesn't Love a Taco? Taste the Nation and the Problem with Neoliberal Immigrant Rights Activism."