• Anne Eaton has had two papers appear: “Feminist Standpoint Aesthetics,” in A Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd Edition, eds. Stephen Davies Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker, and David E. Cooper. Blackwell, 2009.
  
  and, with Ivan Gaskell, “Do Subaltern Artifacts Belong in Art Museums?” in The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation, James O. Young and Conrad Brunk, eds. Blackwell, 2009: 235–267.
  
  
• Anne Eaton gave a paper titled: "A Lady on the Street But a Freak in the Bed:" On the Social Function of Erotic Art." at the American Society of Aesthetics annual meeting in Denver.
  
  
• Nick Huggett gave a talk called "Passing Time" at the European Philosophy of Science Association meeting in Amsterdam.
  
  
• Sally Sedgwick will be giving a paper entitled "Reason and History: Kant versus Hegel" at the NYU conference on Modern Philosophy, and will be critic on an Author-Meets-Critics session at the Eastern APA on Paul Redding's book Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought.
  
  
• Colin Klein will be giving a talk entitled "Emotions, Reasons, and the Functional Imaging of Moral Deliberation" at the University of Miami on 11/12, at Johns Hopkins on 11/20, and at the Institute for the Humanities on 12/1.
  
  
• Dave Hilbert's piece relating the metaphysics of color to modern art, "Spraying color" has just appeared in the catalog of the exhibition which inspired it: Katharina Grosse: Atoms Inside Balloons.
  
  
• Tony Laden will be giving two talks in September: "What is Public Philosophy and why does it need a new key?" at the American Political Science Assoc. meetings in Toronto on Sept. 5, and "Democratic Authority: Command or Connection" at the Dewey Seminar on Democracy, Justice and Education at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton from Sept. 13-17.
  
  
• Tony Laden has had a paper appear, "Relational Liberalism and Demands for Equality, Recognition and group Rights" in Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy, edited by Tom Christiano and John Christman (Wiley-blackwell).
  
  

Spring 2009

• Sam Fleischacker has received the APA's 2009 Joseph B. Gittler Award for his book On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion
  
  
• Nick Huggett recently gave two talks: "Are Quarticles Discernible" at the University of Western Ontario Philosophy of Quantum Field Theory Conference on April 26th, and "The Past Hypothesis and the Knowledge Asymmetry" at Rutgers University's Foundations of Statistical Mechanics Conference on May 13th.
  
  
• Sam Fleischacker gave a talk entitled "Adam Smith and Self-Deceit," at the Philosophy Department of the University of Pennsylvania in March. He will deliver the talk again in Jerusalem this December at a conference on Anglo-Scottish theories of human nature in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  
  Sam will also give a talk "Sympathy in Hume and Adam Smith: A Comparison, Contrast, and Re-construction," as the plenary address at the Oslo conference marking the 250th anniversary of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, in August.
  
  
• Several of our graduate students recently won awards from the college. Maria Balcells won an Abraham Lincoln Fellowship, and both Josh Norton and Tiziana Vistarini won Provost's Awards to support summer study in Switzerland.
  
  
• Tony Laden will give a series of seminars on 6/23 at John-Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. The three seminars are together titled "Looking Forward: A Democratic Picture of Legitimacy, Authority and Deliberation."
  
  
• Peter Hylton will give a talk entitled "Quine and the Aufbau: the Problem of Objective Knowledge" on 5/16 as part of a Carnap Colloquium being held at the Université Paris.
  
  
• John Whipple recently gave two talks: "Leibniz's Unified Theory of Causation" on 4/9 for a Leibniz and Newton seminar at Duke University, and "Malebranche on Mind-Body Distinction" on 4/10 at UNC.
  
  
• Tony Laden's article "The Trouble with Prudence" appeared in the march issue of Philosophical Explorations.
  
  Tony was also awarded a grant from the Spencer Foundation for the project "Reframing Civic Education: Beyond the Civics Classroom"
  
• Marya Schechtman has become an associate editor of Philosophical Explorations.
  
  
• Colin Klein gave a talk entitled "Phantom Limbs and the Imperative Account of Pain" at University College Dublin on 3/26 and at Northern Illinois University on 4/3.
  
  
• Sam Fleischacker will give three lectures in May at Northwestern University as part of the Brady Scholars Program.
  
  Anne Eaton, Dave Hilbert, Colin Klein, and Dave Wirtshafter (Psychology) received an LAS Interdisciplinary Grant for the project "Pleasure, perception and aesthetic appreciation."
  
  
• Daniel Sutherland's article "Kant, Frege, and the Limits of Conceptual Representation" has appeared in Kant and the Philosophy of Science Today, Cambridge University Press 2008.
  
  
• At the invitation of Professor Vladimir Krasikov, Bill Hart gave several lectures at Kemerovo State University in Siberia in October.
  
  
• Colin Klein has had a paper appear: "Reduction without Reductionism: A Defence of Nagel on Connectability" Philosophical Quarterly (2009) Vol. 59, No. 234, pp. 39-53.
  

Fall 2008

• Burkay Ozturk won a Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship.
  
  
• Anne Eaton has a new essay out: “Feminist Philosophy of Art,” Philosophy Compass 3(5), September 2008:
  873-893.
  
  
• Peter Hylton will be taking part in a conference organized at Harvard to commemorate Quine's centennial, and will give a talk called "Quine's Naturalism Revisited."
  
  
• Sally Sedgwick recently gave a talk entitled "Conditions of Critique: Kant versus Hegel" in Montréal at the "Kant bis Hegel" conference. She will give the same talk to the Modern Philosophy Workshop at the University of Chicago on Friday 10/31.
  
  
• The Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy did a symposium on Anne Eaton's article "A Sensible Antiporn Feminism." Commentaries and author's responses are available online.
  
  
• Colin Klein had a paper appear: “Dispositional Implementation Solves the Superfluous Structure Problem.” (2008) Synthese. Vol. 165, No. 1, pp. 141-153.
  
  
• Anne Eaton edited and wrote an article for the collection Talk to Her, a collection of essays on the Almodovar film of the same name.
  
  
• Neal Grossman has an article in the recently released Mind Before Matter: Visions of a New Science of Consciousness.
  
  
• Sam Fleischacker is contributing to a series of online posts on the Israel/Palestine question.
  
  
• John Whipple will be presenting two papers this semester: "Leibnizian Emanation" at the Duke-Leiden Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy at Leiden University on September 28, and "Leibniz on Divine Concurrence" at the Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy on October 19.
  
  
• Nick Huggett has a new paper out: "Why the Parts of Absolute Space are Immobile" (2008) The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol 59, No 3, pp. 391-407.
  
  
• A volume edited by Sam Fleischacker, entitled Heidegger's Jewish Followers, has been released.
  
  
• Connie Meinwald has a paper on the Philebus in the recently released Oxford Handbook of Plato.
  
  
• In October, W.D. Hart will give a series of three lectures to the philosophy department at Kemerovo State University.
  
  
• Colin Klein has a new paper in print: “An Ideal Solution to Disputes about Multiply Realized Kinds.” (2008) Philosophical Studies. Vol 140, No 2, pp. 161-177.
  
  
• Daniel Sutherland presented an invited paper, "Kant on Number Concepts," at the History and Philosophy of Science Conference in Vancouver in mid-June.
  
  
• Sally Sedgwick has been elected Vice President of the APA central division for 2008-9.

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