Philosophy at Cincinnati

06/17/2026

Help us in congratulating Postdoctoral Fellow Donnie Barnett! His paper "In Defense of Epistemic Perceptualism", has been accepted by the journal Acta Analytica!

06/08/2026

We're excited to announce that PhD student Qianrong Gong recently gave her presentation, 'A Critical Review of Demographic Transition Theories’ Explanation for the Fertility Intention-Behavior Gap', at Texas Tech's 18th Annual Graduate Conference!

06/03/2026

Professor Eduardo Martinez has a new publication, "Flexible Partisanship", out in the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. Check it out here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230.2026.2672813

05/28/2026

Check out 2nd Year PhD student Martin Li's newest co-authored publication: "Power Laws in Empirical Eigenvalue Spectra" available open access from the journal Entropy:

The critical brain hypothesis proposes that neural systems operate near a phase transition to optimize information processing. A key method for investigating this hypothesis is the phenomenological renormalization group (pRG), which looks for scale-invariant features across levels of coarse-graining...

05/24/2026

Great work, Cincinnati Ethics Center! So exciting to see the tremendous growth of high school ethics bowl in Cincinnati!

05/19/2026

We're excited to annonance that the Graduate College recently awarded Anthony Chemero a Graduate Mentor Award for his outstanding mentorship of graduate students. Congratulations to Professor Chemero for his dedication to supporting and guiding the next generation of scholars.

05/13/2026

Professor Sarah Stitzlein recently received the University of Cincinnati Distinguished Research Professor Award in April! Professor Stitzlein is a philosopher of education, who uses political philosophy to address pressing problems in schools and democracy.

05/08/2026

We're excited to share that Professor Angela Potochnik was the keynote speaker at the 2026 Ohio Philosophical Association Meeting and that our students, Erik Alvarado and Nadia Jeelani-Socia, presented at the meeting!

05/07/2026

Another video about one of UC Philosophy’s affiliates: Meet Takunda Matose, Assistant Professor in the Ethics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Takunda explores issues at the intersections of bioethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of race. Check out the longer version on YouTube if you want to hear more: https://youtu.be/3FGX7cn5OnA

04/24/2026

Check out professor André Curtis-Trudel's new paper "Explaining AI's successes: A no miracles argument for quasi-representations" open-access and available now in Synthese!

We advance a novel version of the No Miracles Argument (NMA), tailored explicitly for AI, on which predictive success provides support for the existence of