Eva Dadlez, Ph.D.

E.M. Dadlez is a professor of philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma. She received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She writes on issues at the intersection (often at the collision) of aesthetics, ethics and epistemology. She has written two books on the preceding: What's Hecuba to Him? Fictional Events and Actual Emotions (1997) and Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume (2009), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She has also edited a collection entitled Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives for Oxford University Press. Dadlez is a feminist ethics dilettante and occasional novelist. She has indulged in the composition of a mean-spirited academic satire (The Sleep of Reason) that lampoons higher education in America. She also draws a lot.

• 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)
• Writing and Philosophical Analysis (PHI 102, Syracuse University)
• Writing Studios I and II (WRT 105/205, Syracuse University)
• General Essays, Literature, Poetry (ENG 101/102, Syracuse University)

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.

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

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.

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.

Books

Jane Austen’s Emma: Philosophical Perspectives (edited collection). Oxford University Press. Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series. November 2018. 

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

On the Category of Nonconsensual Sex: A Reply to Shannon Fyfe and Elizabeth Lanphier. Southwest Philosophy Review (2020). Forthcoming.

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 Education 45:1

(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

“Fear and Loathing in Fictional Worlds: Quasi-Emotion, Nonexistence, and the Slime Paradigm.” Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton. Edited by Sonia Sedivy. Routledge. Forthcoming.

“Thoughtful Films, Thoughtful Fictions: The Philosophical Terrain between Illustrations and Thought Experiments.” The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. Edited by Noel Carroll, Laura Teresa Di Summa-Knoop, and Shawn Loht. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.

“Introduction.” In Jane Austen’s Emma: Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by E.M. Dadlez. Oxford University Press (2018): 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.

 “Building Character: Shakespearean Characters and Their Instantiations in the Worlds of Performances.” In The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy. Edited by Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne. Routledge (2018): 555-565.

“Legislating Pain Capability: Sentience and the Abortion Debate.” With William L. Andrews. In Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Edited by Gregg D. Caruso. 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): 3-10.

“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.

 

 

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.

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

 

Conference Papers and Lectures

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. 2^nd 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.

5^th Annual William Alston Lecture. Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. 9/17.

Post-Abortion Syndrome: Pro-Life Fiction. With William Andrews. 2^nd 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. 21^st 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. 19^th 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. 38^th 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, 5^th 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. 37^th 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.