Faculty Honors and Achievements
The faculty have been busy publishing articles and books and presenting papers in the US and abroad. Here is just a sample of some of our accomplishments:
Clare Batty In April 2025, Batty presented her paper, “Proust, Memory, and Place,” at the Olfactory Philosophy Workshop at the University of Nevada, Reno, a meeting that brings together leading researchers in the philosophy of smell. The paper, which develops a novel account of odor-evoked memory, will appear with other workshop contributions in a forthcoming issue of Philosophy and the Mind Sciences. In July 2025, Batty served as an instructor at the 10-day summer school “New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Mind,” hosted by Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Looking ahead, she will present “Proust, Memory, and Place” at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in November. Alongside these research activities, Batty continues to lead demonstrations on olfaction in both classroom and community settings. Her work continues to advance philosophical questions concerning the nature and significance of olfactory experience.
David Bradshaw published “An Eastern Orthodox Account of Divine Simplicity” in Divine Simplicity: Five Views from Philosophy and Theology (Bloomsbury Academic), along with comments on the contributions by the four other authors and a reply to their criticisms.
Julia Bursten continues work on the manuscript of her monograph, Thinking Small: Scientific Reasoning at the Nanoscale. This summer, she was appointed General Philosophy of Science Program chair for the 2026 meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. In the fall of 2025, she took her teaching in a new and personally meaningful direction by co-leading a transdisciplinary course, How Horses Shape Kentucky, with Dr. Jackie Wahrmund in animal science in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Lindsey Chambers’ “Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Limits of Beneficence” is forthcoming in the journal Bioethics.
Brandon Look works on early modern philosophy. He has published numerous essays on Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant and other figures from the 17th and 18th centuries. He has also published "Leibniz and the ‘Vinculum Substantiale’ " (Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft 30, 1999); he co-edited and translated "The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence" with Donald Rutherford (Yale, 2006); and he edited and contributed to "The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz" (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2011/2016). Two other collections, "Leibniz and Kant" and the "The Oxford Handbook to Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy," will appear soon for Oxford University Press. At the moment, he is co-editing the second edition of "Leibniz: Philosophical Essays" with Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber for Hackett Publishing and completing a monograph that explores Kant’s reaction to and rejection of Leibniz's philosophy, "Leibniz, Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics."
Natalie Nenadic - In May 2026, Nenadic, presented an invited paper on “Feminist Heidegger” at the 60th Meeting of the Heidegger Circle at Emory University. Her paper “Understanding the Gendered Harms of Deepfake Pornography” is forthcoming in the 2026 Proceedings of the Italian Society for the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. In May 2026, she presented on this topic at the University of Bologna. She also presented “AI and ‘New’ Misogyny: The Case of Sex Robots” at the University of Ferrara’s week-long event, An Interdisciplinary Discussion on the Future of Artificial Intelligence. In June 2026, her paper on deepfake pornography won the Ethics of AI 2026 Award and was presented as a keynote at the Fifth International Conference on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, a European project run by the University of Porto, Portugal. In July 2026, in Porto, she presented “AI Deepfake Pornography: A Gendered Attack on Democracy” at a workshop on the Ethics and Politics of AI.
Philipp Rosemann In spring 2026, Rosemann, Cottrill-Rolfes Chair of Catholic Studies, taught a doctoral seminar on the influential contemporary philosopher Michel Foucault. Throughout his oeuvre, Foucault shows how forms of living and thinking we take for granted are historically contingent, including our conception of reason and our understanding of what it means to be human, which he argues was invented in the 18th century. These constructions are now coming to an end as a result of the digital revolution and artificial intelligence. But what will take their place? Foucault’s late research on ancient “technologies of the self” — strategies of deliberate self-shaping — may hold an answer. On the publication front, Oxford University Press published Rosemann's chapter, “The Young Ratzinger of the Dissertation and the Habilitationsschrift,” in the Oxford Handbook of Joseph Ratzinger. Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, had a reputation for being conservative but was grappling with questions of truth and time similar to those raised by Foucault. The chapter shows how “shockingly” modern Ratzinger was. Rosemann's work was also featured in an episode of the influential Godsplaining podcast, which one can watch here.
James Sares’ book, The Impossibility of Time: Hegel and the Antinomies of Pure Reason, will be released by Bloomsbury Academic next month. He also published “Sartre and the Dialectic of Freedom” in the European Journal of Philosophy. In March, he presented “Reason Is Still Real, and Reality Is Still Rational” at the Metaphysical Society of America conference, co-sponsored by the Yale Department of Philosophy (photo below). He also won the Outstanding Lecturer Award as part of this year’s College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Awards. This summer, he plans to begin his next book on dialectical phenomenology.
Bob Sandmeyer attended the 2026 annual meeting of IAEP, the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, held online this year. While there, he was elected to a three-year term as the association’s treasurer.
Ted Schatzki: A paper co-written by Schatzki and Suraj Chaudhary, who earned his Ph.D. in the department a few years ago, titled “Exposure to Opposing Views on Social Media: A Critical Analysis of Studies, Theory, and the Medium,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Social Philosophy. The idea for the paper originated with Chaudhary, who served as the lead author.
Patrick Skeels' paper, "Dynamic 'Might' and Correct Belief," was published in Inquiry. He also gave a talk called "There Can Be No Dispute" at the 2025 Meeting of the Illinois Philosophical Association, the 2026 Eastern APA and 2026 Meeting of the Kentucky Philosophical Association. Later this month, Skeels is giving a talk "Testing for Coherence” at the Kripke Center at CUNY. In addition, he started the Kentucky Analytic Philosophy working group this semester.
Tim Sundell ’s paper, “Bullshit, Broadly Construed,” is forthcoming in the Philosophical Quarterly.
Anita Superson's paper, "Feminist Ethics" came out in The Oxford Handbook of Normative Ethics, ed. David Copp, Connie Rosati and Tina Rulli (New York: Oxford University Press, 2026), pp. 369-390. Superson also presented a commentary on a paper on "Vicarious Distrust," for a symposium session at the Central APA on Feb. 20, 2026 in Chicago.
Meg Wallace's paper "Choose Your Own Essentia" (co-authored with Jason Bowers) is forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature. In June 2026, she commented on Jonathan Schaffer's "Settling the Question" and L.A. Paul's "The Persisting I" at the Deep Metaphysics Conference in Kralendijk, Bonaire.
Chris Willard-Kyle: In March 2026, Willard-Kyle presented “Interrogative Transmission: Asking Questions Aloud” at the 19th Annual Episteme Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. The paper examines what epistemic rules govern the asking of questions in conversation with particular attention to the phenomena of rhetorical questions. An updated version of the paper is expected to come out in Episteme later this year.