Amandine Catala
Amandine was a fellow at the Center for Humanities and the Arts and also an honorary fellow with the Belgian American Educational Foundation.

Dan Demetriou
Dan co-authored with Graham Oddie a review of Mark Kalderon's Moral Fictionalism, which appeared in Mind 116 (April 2007). Dan and Graham also co-authored "The Fictionalist's Attitude Problem," forthcoming in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

Dan presented his paper "The 'Geach-Frege' Objection to Non-Cognitive Fictionalism" at the 2007 Southwest Graduate Conference in Philosophy (Arizona State) and his paper, "When Monkeys Bark Up the Wrong Tree: A Defense of Grice's Natural Meaning," has been accepted to the 2007 St. Louis University Graduate Student Conference.

Dan won 2007-2008 Emerson-Lowe Dissertation Fellowship

Jason Hanna
Jason’s paper on punishing failed attempts was published in Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 2. Jason also presented a paper, "Democracy and Children's Suffrage," at the Center for Values and Social Policy and the Pacific Division APA.

Peter Higgins
Peter presented a number of conference papers:

• “A Partial Method for Constructing Just Immigration Policies,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division, APA Committee on Hispanics special session on immigration, Chicago, IL., April 2007.
• “Open Borders and the Right to Immigration,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA., April 2007.
• "A Partial Method for Constructing Just Immigration Policies” Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies (FEMMSS) Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ., February 2007.
• “Open Borders and the Right to Immigration,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division – North American Society for Social Philosophy Group Session, Washington D.C., December 2006.

Peter also won a Thomas Edwin Devaney Dissertation Fellowship (Fall 2007 - Spring 2008).

Diana Hseih
Diana published "Egoism Explained: A Review of Tara Smith's Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist" in the Spring 2007 issue of The Objective Standard.

Mary Krizan
Mary presented several conference papers:

• "Conception, Deception, Reflection: Spinoza on Finite Modes" at the Central Division APA, Chicago, April 21, 2007.
• "Corpses, Seeds, and Statues" at the SAGP session of the American Philological Association, San Diego, January 2, 2007.
• "A Defense of Diairesis in Plato's Gorgias" at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordam University, October 22, 2006.

P. J. Lomelino
PJ was the lead GTPI and the graduate student assistant for the Center for Values and Social Policy.

She also presented the following conference papers:

• “Crossing Species Boundaries: A Feminist Critique of Creating Human-Nonhuman Chimeras,” Pacific American Philosophical Association Annual Conference (April, 2007)
• “Women’s Empowerment As It Relates to the New Millennium Goals,” Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Conference (February, 2007)
• “Should the United States Legalize Torture?” Canadian Society of Women in Philosophy Annual Conference: Trent University (October, 2006)
• “Crossing Species Boundaries: An Ethical Analysis of Creating Human- Nonhuman Chimeras,” Pacific Society for Women in Philosophy (October, 2006).
• “Human Rights for All Persons,” 2006 Social Philosophy Conference: University of Victoria (August, 2006).
• “Environmental Justice: A Proposal for Addressing Diversity in Bioprospecting,” International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: New Orleans (June, 2006).

In addition, PJ published the following papers:

• “Environmental Justice: A Proposal for Addressing Diversity in Bioprospecting,” International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Volume 6, Issue 2 (2006).
• “Individuals and Relational Beings: A Call for Expanding Universal Human Rights” Social Philosophy Today, Volume 23 (2007)

Cindy Schoepner
Cindy published the following papers:

• "Administrative Procedures Act," "Vatican Bank", in Encyclopedia of Business, Ethics, and Society, Sage Publications, Inc. (September 4, 2007)
• "Transubstantiation in Aquinas and Ockham," Student Organization for the Study of Religion Journal, forthcoming.

Cindy also gave the following presentations:

• "Teaching Business Ethics with Film," invited panelist, Teaching Business Ethics Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder June 8, 2006
• "Bringing the Power of Film to Business Ethics Education," Society for Business Ethics Annual International Conference, juried selection of panel August 11, 2006
• "Bringing the Power of Film to Business Ethics Education," Academy of Management Annual International Conference, juried selection of panel August 16, 2006
• Comment on "Probability and Utility: Pascal's Wager Defended", Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference, April 20-21, 2007

Tait Szabo
Tait presented a paper, "Sex and Commerce: Feminist Approaches," by invitation of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming, November 2006.

Scott Wisor
Scott won the Stahl Prize, awarded by the Philosophy Department for service to the community. Scott was honored for his remarkable activism to halt the genocide in Darfur.

Jason Wyckoff
Jason presented his paper, "Solving the Problem of Timing Maxims in Kantian Ethics," both at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 6, 2007 and at the Center for Values and Social Policy, CU-Boulder, January 26, 2007.

Jason was awarded the Jentzsch Prize for "On the Failure of the Fair Play Account of Political Obligation."

Julie Adeshchenko
Julie presented her paper, "Innocence and Guilt within the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict," at the Center for Ethics and Social Policy, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 24, 2006.

Dan Demetriou
Dan and Graham Oddie presented a paper, "A Problem with Moral Fictionalism" at the annual Australasian Philosophy Conference in Dunedin New Zealand, December 2005. Dan received the Graduate School's GPTI Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2005-2006.

Barrett Emerick
Barrett presented a paper, "Russell, Tables, and the Promise of Fallibilism," at CUNY's graduate conference on Feb. 25, 2006, in NY.
Barrett will present his paper, "Understanding Across Difference: Empathy and Intersubjective Dialogue," co-authored with Audra King, at the following venues:

• The annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, August 3-5, 2006.
• The NASSP sponsored session at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, held in Washington D.C. from Dec 27-30, 2006. This presentation will be part of a panel is entitled, "Reflections on Social Positioning: The Implications for Theory and Practice." Other panel members will be current graduate student Peter Higgins and past graduate student Theresa Weynand Tobin.

Jason Hanna
Jason presented a paper, "Science, Wonder, and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature," at CU's Center for the Humanities and Arts Colloquium, "The Powers of Wonder," held at CU-Boulder on March 9, 2006.

Peter Higgins
Peter published one article this year and has several publications forthcoming:

• "Sexual Disorientation: Moral Implications of Gender Norms," Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy, edited by Lisa Gurley, Claudia Leeb, and Aloisia Moser, (New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group), 2005.
• "What is Poverty?"(co-authored with Audra King and April Shaw), Global Ethics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, edited by Peggy DesAutels and Rebecca Whisnant, (forthcoming).
• Book Review of The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens by Seyla Benhabib, Human Rights Review, vol. 8, issue 2, 2006 (forthcoming).
• Book Review of Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights by Carol Gould, Human Rights Review, volume 7, issue 4, 2006 (forthcoming).

Peter has also given several conference presentations and has more scheduled: "What is Poverty?" (co-authored with Audra King and April Shaw)

• Presented at the fall meeting of the Pacific Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy, Chico, CA., September 2005.
• Presented at the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) Biennial Meeting, Clearwater Beach, FL., January 2006.
• To be presented at the Conference on Ethics and Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2006.

"Open Borders and the Right to Immigrate: Why Liberal Cosmopolitanism Must Attend to Social Difference"

• To be presented at the 23rd Annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Victoria, B.C., Canada, August 2006
• To be presented in the session sponsored by NASSP at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, held in Washington D.C. from Dec 27-30, 2006. The panel includes other past and present CU-B Philosophy students and is entitled, "Reflections on Social Positioning: The Implications for Theory and Practice."

Heri-Young Kang
Heri-Young presented "Rethinking the 'Circumstances of Global Justice' in Non-Ideal Conditions," in a colloquium on "Rawlsian Liberalism and the Circumstances of Justice," at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), New York City, December 2005

She presented "Rethinking the Circumstances of Global Justice from a Transnational Feminist Justice Perspective," at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST), Clearwater Beach, FL: January 2006.

Heri-Young has been invited to revise and resubmit her manuscript, "Women's Transnational Collectivities as Agents of Global Justice Claims," to The Journal of Social Philosophy.

Derek Kern
Derek presented a paper, "Must Primary Qualities be Inseparable for Locke?" at the Southwestern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, held at the University of New Mexico, February 25, 2006.

Audra King
Audra has presented and plans to present her paper, "What is Poverty?" co-authored with Peter Higgins and April Shaw, in several venues:

• Fall meeting of the Pacific Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy, Chico, CA, August 2005.
• Biennial Meeting of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST), Clearwater Beach, FL., January 2006.
• Scheduled for presentation at the Conference on Ethics and Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2006.

Audra will present her paper, "Understanding Across Difference: Empathy and Intersubjective Dialogue," co-authored with Barrett Emerick, at:

• The annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP). Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, August 2006.
• The NASSP sponsored session at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, held in Washington D.C. from Dec 27-30, 2006. This presentation will be part of a panel entitled, "Reflections on Social Positioning: The Implications for Theory and Practice." Other panel members will be present graduate student Peter Higgins and past graduate student Theresa Weynand Tobin.

Audra's paper, "What is Poverty?" co-authored with Peter Higgins and April Shaw, is forthcoming in Global Ethics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, edited by Peggy DesAutels and Rebecca Whisnant.

Mary Krizan
Mary will present her paper, "Corpses, Seeds, and Statues" at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) session at the American Philological Association meeting in San Diego, January 2007. A slightly more comprehensive version of the paper is available on Mary's website, at http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~krizan/aristotlecapacity2.doc.

P. J. Lomelino
PJ has presented several conference papers this year and has more presentations planned:

• "Whose Nature? Bioprospecting in Third World Countries," University of Kentucky Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, March, 2006.
• "Transcending Woman as Object through Fashion?" Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference: University of Colorado March, 2006.
• "Environmental Justice: A Proposal for Addressing Diversity in Bioprospecting" 6th International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations: New Orleans (June, 2006)
• "Human Rights for All Persons" annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, August 2006.
• "Should the United States Legalize Torture?" Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, (CSWIP) conference on "Security, Trust, Conflict," Trent University, Ontario, Canada, October 26-27, 2006.

Jay Lynch
Jay presented his paper, "Deliberative Democracy after Capitalism," at the graduate student conference on 'Discourse, Democracy, and Justice' at Loyola University, Chicago, March 10-12, 2006. He will present his paper, "Domestic Abuse as Terrorism," at the annual Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, (CSWIP) conference on "Security, Trust, Conflict," Trent University, Ontario, Canada, October 26-27, 2006.

Donna Reeves
Donna presented a comment on "A Menichan Version of Limited Democracy" by Tongdong Bai, in a session on "Confucianism and Democracy: Where Do They Conflict?" sponsored by the Society for Chinese Philosophers in America at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Portland, OR, March 22-25 2006.

April Shaw
April's paper, "What is Poverty?" co-authored with Peter Higgins and Audra King, has been presented at:

• Fall meeting of the Pacific Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy, Chico, CA, August 2005.
• Biennial Meeting of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST), Clearwater Beach, FL., January 2006.
• Scheduled for presentation at the Conference on Ethics and Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2006.
• It will be published in Global Ethics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, edited by Peggy DesAutels and Rebecca Whisnant.

Tony Smith
Tony presented a paper co-authored with Scott Wisor, "Against Citizenship Requirements," at the Center for Ethics and Social Policy, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 7, 2006.

Brian Stern
Brian's paper, "Immigration Restriction in a Liberal Democracy," in John R. Rowan (ed.), Social Philosophy Today. Volume 21: Human Rights, Religion, and Democracy, Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2005:125-135.

Scott Wisor
Scott presented a paper, "Against Citizenship Requirements," co-authored with Tony Smith, at the Center for Ethics and Social Policy, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 7, 2006. Scott will present his paper, "An Argument for the Selection of Government Representatives by Random Lottery," at the Radical Philosophy Association Group Session, Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 27, 2006. Scott will present "Global Justice, Reparations, and the Problem of Wealth Transfer: Refocusing Development on Historical Racial and Gender Injustice" at the Seventh Annual International Development Ethics Association Conference, in Kampala, Uganda, July 19-22, 2006.

Jason Wyckoff
Jason presented his paper, "Individual and Community: Three Conceptions of the Self," at the graduate student conference on "Discourse, Democracy, and Justice" at Loyola University, Chicago. March 10-12, 2006