E.M. Dadlez
Department of Humanities and Philosophy
University of Central Oklahoma
100 North University Drive
Edmond, OK 73034
(405) 974-5636
edadlez@uco.edu
Education
PhD Philosophy, Syracuse University Department of Philosophy, 1991.
MA Philosophy, Syracuse University Department of Philosophy, 1986.
MLS Library Science, Syracuse University Dept. of Information Studies, 1982.
BA Creative Writing/English, Syracuse University Department of English, 1978.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy and Literature, Aesthetics, Ethics (especially Biomedical Ethics, Feminist Ethics), Philosophy of Emotion, Hume
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, Modern Philosophy, Introductory Logic and Metaphysics
Publications in Philosophy
Books
Jane Austen’s Emma: Philosophical Perspectives (edited collection).
Oxford University Press. Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series. November 2018.
Reviewed in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, British Journal of Aesthetics
Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume.
Wiley‑Blackwell. New Directions in Aesthetics series. 2009.
Reviewed in: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; Times Literary Supplement; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; Hume Studies; Philosophical Quarterly; Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
What's Hecuba to Him? Fictional Events and Actual Emotions.
Penn State Press. Literature and Philosophy series. 1997.
Reviewed in: British Journal of Aesthetics
Articles
Leveraging Respect from a Pro-Choice Perspective: A Response to Bertha Manninen. Southwest Philosophy Review. 39:2 (2023).
What Bullshit, Kitsch, and Moral Grandstanding Have in Common. Polish Journal of Aesthetics 63 (2021):85-96.
Tattoos Can Sometimes Be Art: A Modest Embellishment of Stephen Davies’ Adornment. Symposium on Davies’ Adornment. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79:4 (2021): 499-503.
Metaphor and Misconstrual: A Defense of Tirrell’s Toxic Speech Metaphor against Shane Ralston’s Criticism. Southwest Philosophy Review 37:2 (2021).
Not Sitting Down for It: How Stand-Up Differs from Fiction and How Neither Is Immune to Ethical Criticism). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78: 4 (Nov. 2020): 513-524.
On the Category of Nonconsensual Sex: A Reply to Shannon Fyfe and Elizabeth Lanphier. Southwest Philosophy Review 36:2 (2020):39-42.
Comment on “Fashion and the Judgment of Taste: Coming to Terms with Kant” by Kenneth L. Brewer. Southwest Philosophy Review 35:2 (2019): 23-26.
“Cakes as Speech and Cakes as Art in Colorado,” The Philosophers’ Magazine 83 (2018): 9-10.
“Kitsch and Bullshit as Aesthetic and Epistemic Transgressions,” Southwest Philosophy Review 34:1 (2018): 59-67.
“Comedy and Tragedy as Two Sides of the Same Coin: Reversal and Incongruity as Sources of Insight,” with Daniel Lüthi. Journal of Aesthetic Education 52: 2 (2018): 81-94.
“Hume Halos, and Rough Heroes: Moral and Aesthetic Defects in Works of Fiction,” Philosophy and Literature 41:1 (2017): 91-102.
Comment on “Solving the Puzzle of Aesthetic Assertion” by Andrew Morgan. Southwest Philosophy Review 33:2 (2017): 39-42.
“Rights of Passage: The Ethics of Disability Passing and Repercussions for Identity,” with Sarah H. Woolwine. Res Philosophica 94:4 (2016): 951-969.
“Disgust, Appreciation, and Hume’s Emotional Conversion,” Southwest Philosophical Studies 38:1 (2016).
“Comment on “Standing Conditions and Blame” by Amy McKiernan,”Southwest Philosophy Review 32:2 (2016): 49-52.
“Fictional Objects, Future Objectives: Why Existence Matters Less than You Think,” with Chelsea Haramia. Philosophy and Literature 39: 1 (2015): A1-A15.
“Ink, Art and Expression: Philosophical Questions about Tattoos,” Philosophy Compass 10:11 (October 2015).
“Thinking Hypothetically about Hypothesis-Testing in the Humanities: Response to Ryan Nichols,” Southwest Philosophy Review 31:1 (2015): 21-28.
“Gender and Moral Virtue in Kant’s Critique of Judgment: The Third Critique as a Template for Identifying Feminine Deficit,” with Sarah Woolwine. Southwest Philosophy Review 31:1 (2015): 109-118.
Comment on James Rocha’s “Forced to Listen to the Heart: Fetal Heartbeat Laws and Autonomous Abortions.” Southwest Philosophy Review 20:2 (2014) pp. 51-54.
“When Complementarianism becomes Gender Apartheid,” with Sarah Woolwine, Southwest Philosophy Review 30:1 (2014): 195-203.
“Literature, Ethical Thought Experiments, and Moral Knowledge,” Southwest Philosophy Review 29:1 (2013): 195-209.
“Not Moderately Moral: Why Hume is not a ‘Moderate Moralist’,” with Jeanette Bicknell. Philosophy and Literature (2013) 37: 330–342.
“Poetry Is What Gets Lost in Translation,” Art and Philosophy 42 (2013) 86-92.
“Fetal Pain Legislation and the Abortion Debate,” (Presidential Address). Southwest Philosophy Review 28 (January 2012) 1-14.
“Not Separate but not Equal: How Fetal Rights Deprive Women of Civil Rights,” with William L. Andrews. Public Affairs Quarterly 26:2 (April 2012): 103-122.
Comment on Duncan Purves’“Still in Hot Water: Doing, Allowing, and Rachels’ Bathtub Cases” Southwest Philosophy Review 27: 2 (2011).
“Ideal Presence: How Kames Solved the Problem of Fiction and Emotion,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 9:1 (March 2011): 115-133.
“Truly Funny: Irony and Satire as Moral Criticism,”Journal of Aesthetic Education45:1 (Spring 2011).
“Post-Abortion Syndrome: Creating an Affliction,” with William L. Andrews. Bioethics 24:9 (November 2010): 445-452.
“Federally Funded Elective Abortion: They Can Run, but They Can’t Hyde,” with William L. Andrews. International Journal of Applied Philosophy 24:2 (Fall 2010): 169-184.
“Seeing and Imagination: Emotional Response to Fictional Film,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, “Film and Emotions,” Volume XXXIV: 1 (2010): 120-135.
“Kames on Ideal Presence: Revisiting the Problem of Fiction and Emotion,” Southwest Philosophy Review (January 2010).
Comment on Rachel Zuckert’s “Kames’s Naturalist Aesthetics and the Case of Tragedy,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy Forum 7.2 (2009).
“Rape, Evolution, and Pseudoscience: Natural Selection in the Academy,” with William L. Andrews, Courtney Lewis, and Marissa Stroud. Journal of Social Philosophy 40:1 (2009): 75-96.
“Comment on Deborah K. Heikes’ Let’s Be Reasonable: Feminism and Rationality,” Southwest Philosophy Review (July 2009).
“Form Affects Content: Reading Jane Austen,” Philosophy and Literature. 32.2 (Oct. 2008): 315-329.
“Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen.” Journal of Aesthetic Education 42.1 (Spring 2008): 46-62.
“Only Kidding: the Connection between Amusement and Our Attitudes.” In Southwest Philosophy Review, 22: 2 (2006): 1-16.
“Dense Insensibility: Hume's Vices and Virtues in the Work of Jane Austen.” Included in an invited collection edited by myself and James W. Mock for the annual 1650-1850, v. 12 (2006): 147-174.
“Spectacularly Bad: Hume and Aristotle on Tragic Spectacle.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63:4 (2005): 351-358.
“Knowing Better: The Epistemic Underpinnings of Moral Criticism of Fiction.” Southwest Philosophy Review, 21:1 (2005): 35-44.
“Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure.” Hume Studies, 30:2 (November 2004): 213-236.
“A Common Sense and Point of View.” 1650-1850, v. 8 (2002): 1-20.
“The Vicious Habits of Entirely Fictive People: Hume on the Moral Evaluation of Art.” Philosophy and Literature 26 (2002): 38-51.
“Of Two Minds: Plato's Analogy between Painting and Poetry.” Southwest Philosophy Review 18 (2002): 187-192.
“Quasi Fearing Fictions.” Film and Philosophy 5/6 (2001/2): 1-13.
“The Beautiful and the Good.” Southwest Philosophy Review 15 (1999): 99-106.
“Plato” (encyclopedia entry). Magill's Ready Reference: Censorship. Salem Press (1997).
“Fiction, Emotion, and Irrationality,” British Journal of Aesthetics 36 (1996): 292-306.
Chapters
“Jane Austen, Humility, and the Doctrine of the Mean.” In Humility (Oxford Philosophical Concepts series). Edited by Justin Steinberg. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
“Wim Delvoye, Tim: The Life and Death of an Artwork.” With Laura Sizer. In Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics case studies. Bloomsbury Press. Forthcoming.
“Fear and Loathing in Fictional Worlds: Quasi-Emotion, Nonexistence, and the Slime Paradigm.” In Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton. Edited by Sonia Sedivy. (NY: Routledge, 2021): 75-93.
“Ashamed of Ourselves: Disabling Shame and Humility.” With Sarah Woolwine. In The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Humility. Edited by Mark Alfano, Michael Lynch, and Alessandra Tanesini (London: Routledge, 2021): 117-126.
“Being Betty: Tattoos and Transfiguration.” In Opposite: Poems, Philosophy & Coffee. Edited by Helen Mort and Aaron Meskin. Valley Press (2019): 45-46.
“Thoughtful Films, Thoughtful Fictions: The Philosophical Terrain between Illustrations and Thought Experiments.” The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. Edited by Noel Carroll, Laura Teresa Di Summa-Knoop, and Shawn Loht. Palgrave Macmillan (2019): 469-490.
“Building Character: Shakespearean Characters and Their Instantiations in the Worlds of Performances.” In Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy. Edited by Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne. Routledge (2019): 555-565.
“Introduction.” In Jane Austen’s Emma: Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by E.M. Dadlez. Oxford University Press (2019):1-24.
“Love and Friendship: Achieving Happiness in Jane Austen’s Emma.” With Neera Badhwar. In Jane Austen’s Emma: Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by E.M. Dadlez. Oxford University Press (2018): 25-54.
“Legislating Pain Capability: Sentience and the Abortion Debate.” With William L. Andrews. In Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Edited by David Boonin. Palgrave Macmillan. (2018): 661-676.
“The Practical Advantages of Pride and the Risks of Humility: The Defense of Pride Occasionally Found in the Work of David Hume and Jane Austen.” In The Moral Psychology of Pride (Moral Psychology of the Emotions series). Edited by J. Adam Carter and Emma C. Gordon. Rowman and Littlefield (2017): 235-249.
“Virtual Reality and ‘Knowing What It’s Like’: The Epistemic Upside of Experience Machines.”
In Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds. Edited by Mark Silcox. Rowman and Littlefield (2017): 75-86.
“Valar Morghulis: Arya Stark as Humean Rough Hero.” In The Ultimate Game of Thrones and Philosophy. Edited by Eric J. Silverman and Robert Arp. Open Court (2017).
“Jane Austen on Moral Luck.” In Jane Austen and Philosophy. Edited by Mimi Marinucci. Rowan and Littlefield (2016).
“A Humean Approach to the Problem of Disgust and Aesthetic Appreciation.” In Essays in Philosophy (2016) 17:1, 55-67.
“Fiction and Negative Emotions.” In The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Literature. Edited by Noel Carroll and John Gibson. Routledge, 2016. Part 3: 22.
“Make-Believe Wickedness v. Wicked Making-Believe: RPGs, Imagination and Moral Complicity.” In How to Make-Believe: the Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts. Edited by J. Alexander Bareis. De Gruyter, Narratologia (2015): 309-323.
“Eighteenth Century British Philosophers on Tragedy.” In The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the 18th Century. Edited by James Harris. Oxford University Press, 2013. 19.
“Being Evil.” In Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy. Edited by Jon Cogburn and Mark Silcox. Open Court (2012): 65-74.
“Paradox and Transcendence in Alien3: Ripley Through the Eyes of Simone de Beauvoir.” In Meanings of Ripley:The Alien Quadrilogy and Gender. Edited by Lisa Robson and Elizabeth Graham. Cambridge Scholars Press (2010): 117-126.
“It Don't Come Easy v. Taking It Easy: Two Radically Different Reflections on Utilitarianism and the Blues,“ with Michael F. Patton, Jr. In The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Grotesque: The Subjective Turn in Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present. Edited by Michael Matthis. Cambridge Scholars Press (2010): 85-98.
“Going to the Devil: Lewis' Science Fiction and Academic Postmodernism.” In The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Grotesque: The Subjective Turn in Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present. Edited by Michael Matthis. Cambridge Scholars Press (2010): 117-126. “Museum as Moral Agent.” In The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Grotesque. Edited by Michael Matthis. Cambridge Scholars Press (2010): 99-106.
“David Hume and Jane Austen on Pride: Ethics in the Enlightenment.”In Theory and Practice in Eighteenth Century Britain: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature. Edited by Christina Lupton and Alex J. Dick. Pickering and Chatto Publishers Ltd. (2008): 123-137.
Blog Posts
“The Inhumanity of the ‘Pro-Life’ Movement.” With Neera K. Badhwar. What’s Wrong? The not quite official blog of cu-boulder’s center for values and social policy. 5/22/19. https://whatswrongcvsp.com/2019/05/22/the-inhumanity-of-the-pro-life-movement/
“There Are Two Different Types of Jane Austen Fans.” OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Insights for the Thinking World. 12/9/18. https://blog.oup.com/2018/12/jane-austen-fan-types/
“Can We Separate the Art from the Artist?” Aesthetics for Birds: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art for Everyone 12/6/18. https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2018/12/06/can-we-separate-the-art-from-the-artist/
“Flaws, Aesthetic and Moral.” Philosophers on the Art of Morally Troubling Artists. Daily Nous 11/21/17. http://dailynous.com/2017/11/21/philosophers-art-morally-troubling-artists/#Dadlez
Reviews
Review: Game of Thrones. The Philosophers’ Magazine 86 (2019): 111-112.
Review of Waxler, Robert P. The Risk of Reading: How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World. (Bloomsbury). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 74:3, 2016.
Review of Hagberg, Garry L. and Walter Jost, eds., A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (Wiley-Blackwell). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70:2, 2012.
Review of Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, ed., A Companion to Hume (Blackwell). Religion in the Age of Enlightenment v. 1, 2009.
Review of Richard Jenkyns, A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen ( Oxford University Press). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64:3, 2006.
Review of D.A. Miller, Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style ( Princeton University Press). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64:3, 2006.
Review of Frank Kermode, Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon ( Oxford University Press). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64:2, 2006.
Honors and Awards
2022 NEH Award. Institute on David Hume in the 21st Century: Perpetuating the Enlightenment (Elizabeth Radcliffe, Angela Coventry). Portland, OR. 7/22-8/22.
2020 NEH Review Panel Appointment. Member of Review Panel for 2020 NEH Fellowship Competition (Philosophy II). Panel Service: 6/20.
2020 Trustee, American Society for Aesthetics, 2020-2023, 2008-2010.
2015 Aesthetics for Birds “Fab Flock Five” Award (recognizing excellent work in aesthetics)
2015 Hubert Griggs Alexander Memorial Award. New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society.
2014 Liberal Arts Outstanding Scholarship Award. University of Central Oklahoma.
2013 Faculty Merit-Credit Award, University of Central Oklahoma.
2013 Scholarship Merit Award, University of Central Oklahoma
2010 NEH Review Panel Appointment. Member of Review Panel for evaluation and selection of NEH awards for Faculty in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts. Panel service: 8/10.
2008/9 Faculty Merit-Credit Award: Scholarly/Creative Activity, University of Central Oklahoma.
2008/9 Liberal Arts Outstanding Scholarship Award. University of Central Oklahoma.
2007 NEH Award. Summer Seminar on the Aesthetics of the Scottish Enlightenment and Beyond (Rachel Zuckert and Paul Guyer). St. Andrews University, Scotland. 7/07-8/07.
2005/6 Liberal Arts Faculty Member of the Year. University of Central Oklahoma.
2006 Liberal Arts Conference Travel Grant. University of Central Oklahoma.
2005 Sabbatical Leave. One year duration. University of Central Oklahoma.
2005 Faculty Merit-Credit Award, University of Central Oklahoma.
2004 NEH Review Panel Appointment. Member of Review Panel for the Humanities Faculty Research Awards competition. Panel Service: 8/04.
2004 AAUP Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Central Oklahoma Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
2002 NEH Review Panel Appointment. Member of Review Panel for evaluation and selection of NEH Seminars and Institutes to be held in the year 2003. Panel Service: 5/02.
2000 Faculty Merit-Credit Award, University of Central Oklahoma.
1999 Hauptman Fellowship Award for the College of Liberal Arts, Research Advisory Council, University of Central Oklahoma.
1999 Outstanding Achievement in Scholarly Activity: Nominee and Finalist for the Distinguished Scholar Award of the University of Central Oklahoma Chapter of the AAUP.
1999 NEH Review Panel Appointment. Member of Review Panel for evaluation of Seminars and Institutes to be held in the year 2000. Panel Service: 5/99.
1997 NEH Award, Summer Seminar on Objectivity and Emotion in Practical Reasoning (Simon Blackburn). University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC. 6/97-8/97.
1997 Faculty Merit-Credit Award, University of Central Oklahoma.
1992 Doctoral Prize, Syracuse University Graduate School.
1987 All-University Masters Thesis Prize, Humanities, Syracuse University Graduate School.
1987 Teaching Fellow Appointment (recognition of achievements in teaching). Teaching Assistant Program of the Syracuse University Graduate School.
Conference Papers and Lectures
Comment on “Seeing the Funny Side: Sexist Humour, Attention and Harm” by Zoe Walker. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Arlington, VA. 11/23.
American Dystopia: Fetal Rights and Gender Apartheid. 8th Annual International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. 9-10/23.
Comment on “Susan Sontag and the Moral Impacts of Photographs of Violence and Suffering” by Kuizhi Lewis Wang. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO.8/23.
Sad Bangers and Emotional Mash-Ups: Affective Dissonance and Catharsis. With Laura Sizer. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/23.
Jane Austen, Humility, and the Doctrine of the Mean. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 4/22.
Comment on “Rough Heroes” by Chris Williams. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Portland, OR. 11/22. Comment on “Respecting Fetal Life within Pro-Choice Advocacy” by Bertha Manninen. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. 11/22. Masculinity, White Supremacy, and the Tattoos of the January 6 Insurrectionists. 7th Annual International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. 9-10/22. The Queen’s Gambit: The Original and Adaptation as Distinct Works. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/22. Why Delilah? When Music and Lyrics Move Us in Different Directions. With Laura Sizer. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. Vancouver, Canada. 4/22. Is Art Only Skin-Deep? The Case of Tim and ‘Tim’. With Laura Sizer. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. 11/21. Beauty and Ugliness in The Queen’s Gambit. Sixth Annual International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. 9-10/21. Two Takes on The Queen’s Gambit. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO.8/21. Human Billboards? How the Capitol Insurrectionists and Their Compatriots Instantiate Propaganda. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/21. Tattoos Can Sometimes Be Art: A Modest Embellishment of Stephen Davies’ Adornment. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Moved online. 11/20. Hume on Envy, Contempt and Malice as Motivated by Pride, (and as Illustrated in contemporary politics). Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. Moved online. 8/20. Beyond Setting the Table: Tabletop RPGs and Aesthetic Improvisation. Workshop on the Philosophy of Games. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. 4/20. (Paper accepted. Conference delayed) Make-Believe, Quasi-Emotion, and Nonexistence. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. Chicago, IL. 2/20. Comment on “Why Ethical Sex Demands [the category of] Nonconsensual Sex” by Shannon Fyfe and Elizabeth Lanphier. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Fort Worth, TX. 11/19. Kitsch and Bullshit: Transgression and Imposture in Aesthetics and Epistemology. Keynote, Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Edmond, OK. 10/19. Upstanding Stand-Up. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Phoenix, AZ. 10/19. How Stand-Up Differs from Fiction and How Neither Is Immune to Ethical Criticism. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/19. Film as Thought Experiment. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/19. Comment on “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” by Becca Rothfeld. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. Vancouver, BC. 4/19. The Outer Limits: Film and Fiction as Low-Stakes Thought Experiment. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting. Denver, CO. 2/19. Comment on “Fashion and the Judgment of Taste: Coming to Terms with Kant” by Kenneth L. Brewer. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. 11/18. Peter Kivy on the Philosophy of Literature. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Toronto, 10/18.. Kitsch and Bullshit as Aesthetic and Epistemic and thereby Ethical Transgressions. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/18. Jane Austen and the Nay-Sayers. Manuel Davenport Keynote Address. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/18. Comment on Margrethe Bruun Vaage’s The Antihero in American Television. 2018 Society for the Cognitive Study of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference. Bozeman, MT. 6/18. Building Character. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 4/18. Comment on “Cosmetics and Makeup” by Stephen Davies. American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Meeting. Pacific Grove, CA. 4/18. Comment on “Understanding Fictional Characters” by Ira Newman. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. 11/17. Kitsch and Bullshit as Aesthetic and Epistemic Transgressions. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Baylor University. Waco, TX. 11/17. Tattoos: Ink, Art, Ethics, and Expression. University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. La Crosse, WI. 10/17. Invited lecture. The Pure and the Fallen: Metaphors and Norms Deployed by Purity Culture. With Sarah Woolwine. 2nd Annual Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. University of Central Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, OK. 9/17. Comment on “Evidentialism and the Diachronic Nature of Epistemic Evaluation” by Thomas D. Senor. 5th Annual William Alston Lecture. Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. 9/17. Post-Abortion Syndrome: Pro-Life Fiction. With William Andrews. 2nd Annual Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. University of Central Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, OK. 9/17. Virtual Reality and ‘Knowing What It’s Like’: The Epistemic and Aesthetic Upside of Experience Machines. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/17. Kitsch and Bullshit as Cases of Aesthetic and Epistemic Bad Faith. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/17. Kitsch and Bullshit as Cases of Aesthetic and Epistemic Bad Faith. Canadian Society for Aesthetics. Toronto, ON. 5/17. Kitsch and Bullshit as Cases of Aesthetic and Epistemic Bad Faith. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 4/17. The Practical Advantages of Pride and the Risks of Humility. Omaha Emotion Workshop. University of Omaha. Omaha, NE. 4/17. Comedy and Tragedy: Two Sides, Same Coin. With Daniel Lüthi. Ethics and Aesthetics of Stand-Up Comedy Conference. Bucknell University. Lewisburg, PA. 4/17. Comedy, Tragedy and Reversal: Two Sides, Same Coin. With Daniel Lüthi. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. 11/16. Comment on “Solving the Puzzle of Aesthetic Assertion” by Andrew Morgan. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Corpus Christie, TX. 11/16. Rights of Passage: The Ethics of Disability Passing and Repercussions for Identity. With Sarah Woolwine. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/16. Valar Morghulis: Arya Stark as Humean Rough Hero. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/16. Incongruity and Reversal: The Similar Sources of Insight in Comedy and Tragedy. With Daniel Lüthi. Fifth Dubrovnik Conference on Philosophy of Art. Dubrovnik, Croatia. 4/16. Rights of Passage: The Ethics of Disability Passing and Repercussions for Identity. With Sarah Woolwine.“Ability and Enhancement Colloquium,” a workshop hosted by the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. Richmond, VA. 4/16. Comment on “Solving the Puzzle of Aesthetic Assertion” by Andrew Morgan. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting. San Francisco, CA. 3/16. Luck and Character in Jane Austen. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Oklahoma City, OK. 2/16. Comment on “Standing Conditions and Blame” by Amy McKiernan. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Nashville, TN. 11/15. Ink, Art, and Expression: Philosophical Questions about Tattoos. Invited presentation. Furman University, Greenville, SC. 10/15. Rough Heroes and Immoderate Moralists: On Fiction and Moral Criticism. Keynote Address. West Canadian Philosophical Association. Saskatoon, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. 10/15. Hume, Halos and Rough Heroes. Invited paper. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Fayetteville, AR. 9/15. Ink, Ethics and Expression: Philosophical Questions about Tattoos. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/15. The Aesthetics of Ink: Unique Aesthetic Questions Raised by Tattoos. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/15. Villainous Heroes: Moral and Aesthetic Defects in Works of Fiction. International Association for Aesthetics. Revisions of Modern Aesthetics. University of Belgrade. Belgrade, Serbia. 6/15 (Served as representative of the American Society for Aesthetics to the IAA). Fictional Narratives and Moral Ambiguity: The Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluation of Fiction. International Exploratory Workshop: Fictionality, Narrativity, Literariness: Speculative Approximations. University of Basel. Basel, Switzerland. 6/15. Gender and Moral Virtue in Kant’s Critique of Judgment. With Sarah Woolwine. Exploring Collaborative Contestations and Diversifying Philosophy. Hypatia and APA Committee on the Status of Women. Villanova, PA. 5/15. Disgust, Appreciation, and Hume’s Emotional Conversion. American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Meeting. Pacific Grove, CA. 4/15. Disgust, Appreciation, and Hume’s Emotional Conversion. New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Houston, TX. 3/15. Comment on “Kitsch and Bullshit” by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Houston, TX. 3/15. Ink, Art and Expression: Philosophical Questions about Tattoos. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 3/15. Relishing Rough Heroes. Invited paper, Friends of the Forms, Philosophy Department, Oklahoma State University, 2/11/15. Thinking Hypothetically about Hypothesis-Testing in the Humanities: Reponse to Ryan Nichols. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Lawrence, KS 11/14. Gender and Moral Virtue in Kant’s Critique of Judgment. With Sarah Woolwine. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Lawrence, KS 11/14. Hume, Halos and Rough Heroes: Moral and Aesthetic Defects in Works of Fiction. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX. 10/14. The Robustness of Immoralism: A Reply to Anne Eaton. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/14. The Aesthetics of Disgust. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/14. Gender and Moral Virtue in Kant’s Critique of Judgment. With Sarah Woolwine. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/14. A Non-Identity Solution to the Problem of Fiction. With Chelsea Haramia. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/14. Fictional Objects, Future Objectives: Why Existence Matters Less than You Think. With Chelsea Haramia. American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Meeting. Pacific Grove, CA. 4/14. Fictional Objects, Future Objectives: Why Existence Matters Less than You Think. With Chelsea Haramia. 21st Century Theories of Literature Conference. Warwick University, UK. 3/14. Comment on “Forced to Listen to the Heart” by James Rocha. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Fredricksburg, TX 11/13. When Complementarianism becomes Gender Apartheid, With Sarah Woolwine. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Fredricksburg, TX 11/13. Comment on “The Content of Ethical-Aesthetic Value Interaction Claims” by Aleksey Balotskiy. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. 10-11/13. Make-Believe Wickedness v. Wicked Making-Believe. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/13. Poetry Is What Gets Lost in Translation. 19th International Congress of Aesthetics. International Association for Aesthetics. Jagellonian University. Krakow, Poland. 7/13. (Served as representative of the American Society for Aesthetics to the IAA). Poetry and Translation. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/13. Fictional Objects, Future Objectives: Why Existence Matters Less than You Think, with Chelsea Haramia. Canadian Society for Aesthetics. Victoria, BC. 6/13. Make-Belive Wickedness v. Wicked Making-Believe. American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Meeting. Pacific Grove, CA. 4/13. Comment on “How Can a Skeptic Have a Standard of Taste?” by Susan Hahn. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 3/13. Fiction, Thought Experiments, and Moral Knowledge. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. 11/12. Literature, Ethical Thought Experiments, and Moral Knowledge. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. 10/12. Fetal Sentience and Legislation. Society for Analytical Feminism. Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN. 10/12. Fetal Sentience and Legislation. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/12. Wit as an Aesthetic Property of Persons. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/12. Hume and Tragedy in the Eighteenth Century. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 4/12. Program Co-Chair and presenter. At Wit’s End. American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Annual Meeting. Asilomar Conference Center. Pacific Grove California. 4/12. Being Evil: RPGs, Imaginative Immersion, and Moral Complicity. Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy. Stillwater, OK. 4/12. Invited lecture. Role-Playing, Make-Believe, and Moral Complicity. International Conference on How to Make-Believe: The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts. University of Lund, Sweden. 3/12. Presidential Address. Fetal Pain Legislation and the Abortion Debate. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Austin, TX. 11/11. Thought Experiments and Intuition Pumps: How Aesthetics Can Inform Ethics. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL. 10/11. Not Separate but not Equal: How Fetal Rights Deprive Women of Civil Rights, with William L. Andrews. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/11. Comment on “Mixed Feelings, Mixed Metaphors: Hume on the Pleasure of Tragedy” by Amyas Merivale. Hume Society. 38th International Hume Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. 07/11. Do Vampires Have More Fun? Role-Playing, Imaginative Immersion, and Moral Complicity. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/11. Not Separate but not Equal: How Fetal Rights Deprive Women of Civil Rights, with William L. Andrews. Midwest Ethics Society, 5th Annual Meeting. Missouri State University, Springfield, MO. 4/11. Being Evil: RPGs, Imaginative Immersion, and Moral Complicity. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting. SanDiego, CA. 4/11. Being Evil: RPGs, Imaginative Immersion, and Moral Complicity. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 4/11. Seeing and Imagination: Emotional Response to Fictional Film. American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. 3/11. Comment on “The Arts, Affect, and Evolution” by Noel Carroll. American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. 3/11. Comment on “Still in Hot Water: Doing, Allowing, and Rachels’ Bathtub Cases” by Duncan Purves. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Memphis, TN. 11/10. Comment on “Why Hume Is not a Moderate Moralist” by Jeanette Bicknell. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Victoria, BC. 10/10. Film, Emotion, and Imagination. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Washington, PA. 10/19. Federal Funding of Elective Abortion: They Can Run, but They Can’t Hyde, with William L. Andrews. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/10. Eighteenth Century British Philosophy on Tragedy. Hume Society. 37th International Hume Conference. Antwerp, Belgium. 07/10. Seeing Theory v. Thought/Imagination Theory. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 4/10. Seeing and Imagination.American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Annual Meeting. Asilomar Conference Center. Pacific Grove California. 4/10. Eighteenth Century Philosophers on Tragedy. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting.Salt Lake City, UT. 2/10. Session co-chair (two sessions) and presenter Kames on Ideal Presence: Revisiting the Problem of Fiction and Emotion. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Dallas, TX. 11/09. Comment on “Aristotle: the Ascendance of Character” by Ira Newman. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. 10/09. Comment on “Tolstoy and Nussbaum on Innocence” by Svetlana Beggs. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Reno, NV. 10/09. Spinning the Harm Principle: Post-Abortion Syndrome, with William L. Andrews. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/09. Revisiting the Problem of Fiction and Emotion. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/09. Kames on Ideal Presence.American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Annual Meeting. Asilomar Conference Center. Pacific Grove California. 4/09. Comment on “Hume and the Value of the Beautiful” by James Shelley. American Philosophical Association. Vancouver, BC. 04/09. Martha Nussbaum on Literature and Moral Philosophy. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 4/09. Ideal Presence: Fiction and Emotion in the Eighteenth Century. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting.Corpus Christi, TX. 2/09. Session co-chair (two sessions) and presenter. Comment on “Let's Be Reasonable: Feminism and Rationality,” by Deborah K. Heikes. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Kansas City, MO. 11/08. Martha Nussbaum on Ethics and Literature. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Fort Hays, KS. 10/08. Austen and Aristotle and Hume. Midwest American Society for Eighteenth‑Century Studies.Oklahoma City, OK. 10/08. Rape Is Not an Evolutionary Strategy, co‑authored with William L. Andrews, Courtney Lewis and Marissa Stroud. Oklahoma Women's and Gender Studies Workshop. Future Directions: New Generations. University of Oklahoma. 9/08. Comment on “No Seriously, That’s not Funny: A Defense of Sentimentalism about Humor,” by Andrew Jordan and Stephanie Patridge. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. Boulder, CO. 8/08. “Alien3” and its Heroine through the Eyes of Simone de Beauvoir. Also chair of proposed panel on Philosophy and Film.American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 7/08. The Useful and the Good: Utility in the Philosophy of David Hume and the Fiction of Jane Austen. 35th Conference on Value Inquiry, College of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ. 4/08. Comment on “Without Taste: Psychopaths and the Appreciation of Art” by James Harrold and Heidi Maibom. American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Annual Meeting. Asilomar Conference Center. Pacific Grove California. 3/08. Jane Austen, David Hume, and Virtue Ethics Utilitarianism in Philosophy and Literature. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. 2/08. Session co-chair (two sessions) and presenter. Taking it Easy: A Utilitarian Endorsement of the Blues. Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Far West Popular and American Culture Associations, University of Nevada. Las Vegas, NV. 1/08. Fiction, Philosophy and Epistemic Normativity: Epistemic Norms in David Hume’s Philosophy and Jane Austen’s Fiction. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. 11/07. Comment on “It Don’t Come Easy: Toward a Utilitarian Aesthetics” by Michael F. Patton, Jr.. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. University of Denver, Denver, CO. 9/07. Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen. Hume Society. 34th International Hume Conference. Boston, MA. 8/07. Going to the Devil: Lewis’ Science Fiction and Academic Postmodernism. Chair of proposed panel on The Academic Novel and Its Discontents.American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 07/07. Paradox and Transcendence in Alien3: Ripley Through the Eyes of Simone de Beauvoir. American Philosophical Association, Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts. Chicago, IL. 4/07. Sentiment and Virtue in the Philosophy of David Hume and the Fiction of Jane Austen. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Annual Meeting. Phildelphia, PA. 04/07. Comment on “Humean Critics: Real or Ideal?” by Stephanie Ross. American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Annual Meeting 2007. Asilomar Conference Center. Pacific Grove California. 3/07. Pride in the Philosophy of David Hume and the Literature of Jane Austen. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. Tulsa, OK. 2/07. Session co-chair (two sessions) and presenter. David Hume, Jane Austen, and the General Point of View. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Marquette University/Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI. 10/06. Comment on “The Moral Metaphysics of the Human Embryo“ by Mark Brown. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Washburn University, Topeka, KS. 9/06. Dense Insensibility: Hume's Ethics in the Work of Jane Austen. Hume Society. 33rd International Hume Conference. Universität Koblenz‑Landau. Koblenz, Federal Republic of Germany. 8/06. Envy, Malice, and the Principle of Comparison: The Depiction of Vices in the Philosophy of David Hume and the Fiction of Jane Austen. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 07/06. Jane Austen on Aesthetics: Kantian and Humean Perspectives. American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Annual Meeting 2006. Phildelphia, PA. 04/06. Mirrors to One Another: David Hume and Jane Austen on Sympathy. American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Annual Meeting 2006. Asilomar Conference Center. Pacific Grove California. 3/06. ‘Lovers,’ ‘Friends,’ and Other ‘Endearing Appellations’: David Hume and Jane Austen on Marriage. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. Cocoa Beach, FL. 2/06. Session co-chair (two sessions) and presenter. Comment on “Hume’s Aesthetic: The Value of a Developed Taste” by J.W. Mock. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO. 10/05. Ethics in Jane Austen: Why Austen Is neither an Egoist nor a Kantian. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting 2005. Hotel Saint Francis. Santa Fe, NM. 7/05. Hume’s Ethics in the Work of Jane Austen. Hume and His Critics. Baylor University. Waco, TX. 4/05. Empiricism and Civility. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. St. Simon, GA. 2/05. Session co-chair (three sessions) and presenter. Knowing Better: The Epistemic Underpinnings of Moral Criticism of Fiction. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. 11/04. Comment on “Two Kinds of Artistic Content,” by John Dilworth. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. University of Houston, Houston, TX. 10/04. Fiction and Moral Criticism. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Fort Hays, KS. 10/04. Hume and Aristotle on Tragic Spectacles. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting 2004. Hotel Saint Francis. Santa Fe, NM. 7/04. Only Kidding: The Connection between Amusement and Our Attitudes. OSU. Invited paper. Stillwater, OK. 4/04. Hume on Eloquence. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 2/04. Session co-chair (two sessions) and presenter. Spectacularly Bad: Hume and Aristotle on Tragic Spectacle. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. 10/03. Comment on “The Gravity of Moral Fiction” by Jan Thomas. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. 9/03. Knowing Better: Epistemic Underpinnings of the Moral Criticism of Fiction. Knowing Art Symposium. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. 8/03. Feeling with the Fictional. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting 2003. Hotel Saint Francis. Santa Fe, NM. 7/03. Museum as Moral Agent. American Philosophical Association, American Society for Value Inquiry. Cleveland, OH. 4/03. Hume and Aristotle on Spectacle. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. Fort Worth, TX. 3/03. Session co-chair (two sessions) and presenter. Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on Response to Tragedy. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Miami, FL. 11/02. Comment on “Progress and Prejudice in Hume's Moral Philosophy” by Timothy Costelloe. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. 10/02. When Galleries Go Bad. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting 2002. Hotel Saint Francis. Santa Fe, NM. 7/02. Merry and Tragical. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. South Padre Island, TX. 2/02. Session co-chair (two sessions) and presenter. Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on Response to Tragedy. Kansas Philosophical Association Annual Meeting. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. 2/02. Of Two Minds: Plato's Analogy between Painting and Poetry. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Dallas, TX. 11/01. Comment on “Desecrating the Temple? The New Museum and the Boundaries of Art,” by Larry Shiner. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 10/01. Comment on “Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations of Other People's Icons,” by Sarah Worth. American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 10/01. Comment on “Moral Vice, Cognitive Virtue: Jane Austen on Jealousy and Envy,” by Thomas Williams. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. 10/01. Program Chair and commentator. Of Two Minds: Plato's Analogy between Painting and Poetry. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting 2001. Hotel Saint Francis. Santa Fe, NM. 7/01. Hume and Gendler on Imaginative Resistance. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. Fayetteville, AR. 3/01. Session co-chair and presenter. The Role of Emotion in David Hume's 'Standard of Taste'. International Conference on Madness and Bliss in Literature and the Visual Arts. West Georgia College, Atlanta, GA, 11/00. The Vicious Habits of Entirely Fictive People. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Washburn University. Topeka, KS. 10/00. The Vicious Habits of Entirely Fictive People. Central States Philosophical Association 2000 Annual Meeting. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lincoln, NE. 10/00. The Vicious Habits of Entirely Fictive People. American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting 2000. Saint John's College. Santa Fe, NM. 7/00. The Vicious Habits of Entirely Fictive People. North Texas Philosophical Association 2000 Spring Meeting. Southern Methodist University. Dallas, TX. 4/00. Life Resembles Art. Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy. Stillwater, OK. 4/00. Invited. The Hideous Strength of Postmodernism. C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Conference. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. 4/00. Immoral Art. South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting. Baton Rouge, LA. 3/00. Session co-chair and presenter. Fear and Loathing in Fictional Worlds. Texas Tech University, Department of Philosophy. Lubbock, TX. 2/11/00. Invited paper. Emotions and Fiction. Texas Tech University, Department of Philosophy.Lubbock, TX. 2/10/00. Invited. Offred All Too Often: Atwood's Dystopia Meets Reality. International Conference on Utopia and Dystopia in Literature and the Visual Arts. West Georgia College, Atlanta, GA, 11/99. Comment on “What Is Wrong with Adultery” by Don Marquis. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO. 10/99. Biomedical Ethics in Today's Healthcare Settings. Integrated Specialty Hospital Ethics Committee, Edmond, OK, 5/99. Invited presentation. A Comparison of Hume's Ethics and Kant's Aesthetics. South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting. Shreveport, LA. 2/99. The Beautiful and the Good. Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Stillwater, OK. 10/98. The Beautiful and the Good. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. 10/98. Local Arrangements Chair and presenter. Genethical Dilemmas...or Good-Bye Dolly. Panel Discussion and Radio Broadcast at the University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. 2/98. Panelist. Mirth and Morality. Twenty-Sixth Conference on Value Inquiry. University of Montevallo. Montevallo, AL. 4/98. Feeling as Believing: Kendall Walton on Fiction and Emotion. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. University of Colorado. Colorado Springs, CO. 10/97. Machiavelli and Moral Politics. With James W. Mock. International Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference. Villanova University. Villanova, PA. 9/97. Humor and Hostility in Fiction. International Society for Humor Studies Conference. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. 7/97. Session chair and presenter. Hume on Moral Truth and Beauty. South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting. Edmond, OK. 2/28/97. J.S. Mill's Subjection of Women: A Reply to Moira Gatens. University of Wichita. Department of Philosophy. Wichita, KS. 11/22/96. Invited paper. Dystopic Duality: Desire and Despair in Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. With James W. Mock. International Conference on Despair and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts. West Georgia College, Atlanta, GA, 10/96. J.S. Mill's Subjection of Women: A Reply to Moira Gatens. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Stillwater, 10/96. Fear and Loathing in Walton's Worlds of Make-Believe. American Philosophical Association, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Seattle, WA, 4/96. Comment. Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference. Santa Fe, NM. 10/95. Fiction and the Limits of the Imagination. International Conference on the Sacred and the Profane in Literature and the Visual Arts. West Georgia College. Atlanta, GA. 10/95. Clearing Fictions. Southern Methodist University. Dept. of Philosophy. Dallas, TX. 11/94. Invited paper. The Engrossing Grotesque. International Conference on the Hideous and the Sublime in Literature and the Visual Arts, West Georgia College. Atlanta, GA, 11/94. Session chair and presenter. Colin Radford: What's Hecuba to Him? Florida International University, Department of Philosophy. Miami, FL. 5/92. Invited paper. The Abortion Debate. Ithaca College, Department of Philosophy and Religion. Ithaca, NY, 3/92. Invited lecture. 2002-present Professor, University of Central Oklahoma, Department of Humanities and Philosophy 1998-2002 Associate Professor, University of Central Oklahoma, Department of Humanities and Philosophy 1993-1998 Assistant Professor, University of Central Oklahoma, Department of Humanities and Philosophy 1992-1993 Assistant Professor, Ithaca College, Department of Philosophy and Religion 1991 Part-Time Instructor, Syracuse University, Department of Philosophy 1990-1991 Philosophy Writing Consultant, Syracuse University, Department of Philosophy 1989-1992 Professional Writing Instructor, Syracuse University Writing Program 1989 Teaching Associate, Cornell University, Department of Philosophy 1988-1989 Part-Time Instructor, Syracuse University, Department of Philosophy 1987-1988 Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, Department of Philosophy 1986 Teaching Fellow, Syracuse University, Graduate School, Teaching Assistant Program 1984-1986 Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, Departments of Philosophy and English The Philosophy of Fiction (PHIL 4913/PHIL 5913/ENG 5913, University of Central Oklahoma) Visions of Dystopia (PHIL 4911, University of Central Oklahoma, Team leader) The Philosophy of Horror (PHIL 4921/ENG 5911University of Central Oklahoma) Major Figures in Aesthetics (PHI 395, Syracuse University) Epistemology (PHIL 4913, University of Central Oklahoma) Theory of Knowledge (PHIL 3993, University of Central Oklahoma) History of Philosophy: Modern (PHIL 2183, University of Central Oklahoma) Philosophy of Emotion (PHIL 3993, University of Central Oklahoma) Ethical Theory (PHIL 3103, University of Central Oklahoma) Ethics and Value Theory (PHI 191, Syracuse University) Contemporary Moral Problems (PHIL 1123, University of Central Oklahoma) Medical Ethics (PHIL 3513/PHIL 5913 University of Central Oklahoma; PHIL 230, Ithaca College; PHIL 245, Cornell University) Dying and Death (PHIL 3533, University of Central Oklahoma) Women and Values (PHIL 4203/PHIL 5913, University of Central Oklahoma; PHIL 276, Ithaca College) Rights and Reproduction (PHIL 4913, University of Central Oklahoma) Women: 1870-1938 (HUM 4911, University of Central Oklahoma, Team member) Scholarship/Leadership (PHIL 2003, University of Central Oklahoma) Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 1113, University of Central Oklahoma; PHIL 101, Ithaca College) Theories of Knowledge and Reality (PHI 187, Syracuse University) Critical Reasoning (PHIL 151, Ithaca College) Philosophical Writing; Writing and Philosophical Analysis (PHIL 4513, UCO; PHI 102, Syracuse) Writing Studios I and II (WRT 105/205, Syracuse University) General Essays, Literature, Poetry (ENG 101/102, Syracuse University) British Journal of Aesthetics Canadian Journal of Philosophy Hume Studies Journal of Aesthetic Education Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Philosophia Polish Journal of Philosophy Southwest Philosophy Review Oxford Routledge Wiley-Blackwell American Philosophical Association American Society of Aesthetics. 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