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Recent Graduate Student Presentations and Publications

Keith Bustos

Presentations:

  • "The Nature of Artifacts: An Aristotelian Response to Katz." The Second Annual Joint ISEE/IAEP Meeting, Estes Park, CO, June 2005.
  • “Deontological Eudaemonism.”  Tennessee Philosophical Association Conference, Vanderbilt University, TN, November 2004.
  • “Exploitation & Genetic Use Restriction Technology: Sowing the Seeds of Reason in the Field of the Terminator Debate.” (1) Ethics and the Life Sciences, American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, DE. October 23, 2004. (2) Where are Law, Ethics & the Life Sciences Headed?: Frontier Issues, University of Minnesota Law School, May 20, 2005. (3) Twenty-Second International Social Philosophy Conference, Troy, NY, July 2005.
  • “Expanding Contractualist Morality.” Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2002.

Publications:

  • "Defending a Kantian Conception of Duties to Self and Others." The Journal of Value Inquiry, forthcoming.
  • "Sowing the Seeds of Reason in the Field of the Terminator Debate." Journal of Business Ethics, 2007.
  • “Business, Ethics, and Global Climate Change.” With Denis G. Arnold.  Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 22: 2 (Summer 2005).
  • "Energy."  Co-authored with John Nolt.  In A Land Imperiled:  The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion, John Nolt ed., University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
  • "Water."  Co-authored with John Nolt.  In A Land Imperiled:  The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion, John Nolt ed., University of Tennessee Press, 2005.

Sarah Kenehan

Presentations:

  • "Moving Towards Environmental Sustainability: The Relationship Between Fossil Fuel Consumption and the Preservation of Background Justice in Well-Ordered Society," Twenty-Second International Social Philosophy Conference, Troy, NY, July 2005.
  • "Reconsidering Foster's Aristotelian Environmental Ethic,"The Second Annual Joint ISEE/IAEP Meeting, Estes Park, CO, June 2005.
  • "Moving Towards Environmental Sustainability: The Relationship Between Fossil Fuel Consumption and the Preservation of Background Justice in a Well-Ordered Society," Tennessee Philosophical Association Conference, Vanderbilt University, 2004.

Publication:

  • "Transportation."  Co-authored with John Nolt.  In A Land Imperiled:  The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion, John Nolt ed., University of Tennessee Press, 2005.

Peter Kraslawsky

Presentations:

  • “Autonomy and Informed Consent in an African Context," Global Health Care Justice Symposium, Hiram College June 22-25, 2006.
  • “Religion and Morality in Kant: Against the Traditional Reductivist View," Evangelical Philosophical Society, Washington D.C. November 15-17, 2006.

Walter Riker

Presentations:

  • "Reading (and Misreading) Rawls's Theory of Legitimacy," Southwestern Philosophical Society, Fayetteville, Ar, November 2005.

    "Rawls's Liberal Principle of Legitimacy Revisited," North American Society for Social Philosophy, Troy, NY, July 2005.
  • "Three Approaches to Teaching Business Ethics." The Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, San Antonio, TX, forthcoming 2005.
  • "Rawls's Decent Peoples and the Democratic Peace Thesis."  Mini-Conference on Global Justice, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, CA, March 2004.
  • "Rawls's Decent Peoples and the Democratic Peace Thesis."  20th International Social Philosophy Conference, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Boston, MA, July 2003.

Refereed Publication:

  • “The Democratic Peace Thesis is Not Democratic: On behalf of Rawls’s Decent Peoples.” Political Studies, forthcoming.
  • "Rawls's Decent Peoples and the Democratic Peace Thesis."  Social Philosophy Today, volume 20, July 2004.

Non-refereed Publication:

  • "Food."  Co-authored with John Nolt.  In A Land Imperiled:  The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion, John Nolt ed., University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming 2005.

Other Professional Activities:

  • Textbook review for Wadsworth Publishing, Summer 2002.  Reviewed Louis P. Pojman, Philosophy:  The Pursuit of Wisdom, to make suggestions for 5th edition, published in 2004.