2026 PHI PRO

1. Sara Brill, Professor, Fairfield University, USA.
   Title: Extended Minds in Plato and Aristotle.
2. Ryan Drake, Associate Professor, Fairfield University, USA.
   Title:Charm and Counter-Charm in Plato’s Republic.
3. Cecilia Li, Assistant Professor, Huron University at Western University, Canada.
   Title: A Fork in the Road: Politics as the Master Art in Plato’s Gorgias.

1. Thomas Lockhart, Associate Professor, Auburn University, USA.
   Jennifer Lockhart, Associate Professor, Auburn University, USA.
   Title: Constitutivism and the Goodness-fixing Kind Objection.
2. Marta Nagy, Associate Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary.
   Title: Anytime, Anything, Anyone – Forms of Apparent Reality in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and the Phenomenon of Deepfakes.
3. Ronald Weed, Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada.
   Title: Aristotle on Vice: Dishonouring Vices.

1. Emese Mogyorodi, Associate Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary.
   Title: The Pursuit of Truth and the “Usefulness” of Greek Philosophia in Modern Democracy.
2. Samuel Piccolo, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, CUNY, USA.
   Title: From Anxiety to Wonder: Aristotelian and Native American Philosophy.

1. Jennifer Lockhart, Associate Professor, Auburn University, USA.
   Title: The Role of Beauty in Aristotle’s Ethics.
2. Wisam Abdul-Jabbar, Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar.
   Title: Averroism and Intercultural Philosophy: Toward a Deliberative Pedagogy.
3. Vivian Feldblyum, Assistant Professor, Auburn University, USA.
   Title: An Aristotelian Account of Victim-Blaming.

1. Jeffrey Koperski, Professor, Saginaw Valley State University, USA.
   Title: Skepticism about the Multiverse.
2. Alexandru Popovici, Professor, Romanian-American University, Romania.
   Title: The Philosophy of Multilevel Reality and the Morphosynthetic Method, A New Approach to Hegel’s Theoretical Works.
3. Piergiuseppe Sancetta, PhD Student, University of Edinburgh, UK.
   Title: A Philosophical Analysis of Multi-time Wave Functions.

1. Robert Earle, Wilson Ethics Fellow & Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa, USA.
   Title: Classical Rule and Act Utilitarianism: Applying 20^th Century Terminology to the Philosophies of Bentham and Mill.
2. Xavier Mao, Professor, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), India.
   Title: A Critique of Macintyre’s after Virtue.

1. Scott Rubarth, Associate Professor, Rollins College, USA.
   Title: Fate without Fatalism: On the Absence of Resignation in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations.
2. Danielle Ravitzki, Independent Scholar; MA Graduate, Columbia University, USA.
   Title: Family, Forgiveness, and Justice: Challenging the Moral Obligation to Forgive in Families.

1. Ori Z Soltes, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University, USA.
   Title: From Plato’s Cratylus to Panini: The Problem of Language for Philosophy.
2. Jinmei Yuan, Professor, Creighton University, USA.
   Title: The Role of Continuity in Set-Based Thinking: Discovering the Nature of Numbers Taught by the Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art in Ancient China.
3. Magdalena Wolska-Augustyn, Student, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
   Title: Interactivism Imagined: Imagination as a Procedural Cognitive Capacity in Interactivist Model.

1. Robert Bishop, Professor, Wheaton College, USA.
   Title: An Ethic of Createdness and Creation Care.
2. Kenneth Shockley, Professor and Holmes Rolston III Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Colorado State University, USA.
   Ben Hale, Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
   Title: Intervention, Indeterminacy, and Manufactured Risk in Geoengineering the Earth: Lessons from the Chariot of Helios.
3. Alessandro Moscaritolo Palacio, Assistant Professor, Marist University, USA.
   Title: Environmental Philosophies of Some South American Indigenous Peoples: Conflict, Mestizaje, and Cosmopolitics.

• Dr. Robert Bishop (Head, Philosophy Unit, Athens Institute & Professor, Wheaton Collete, USA)
• Dr. Oidinposha Pulatovna Imamkhodjaeva (Deputy Head, Philosophy Unit, Athens Institute & Assistant Teaching Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA)

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1. Tennyson Samraj, Professor, Burman University, Canada.
   Title: Belief Quotient as the Matrix of Doxastic Intelligence.
2. David Laraway, Todd A. Britsch Professor of the Humanities, Brigham Young University, USA.
   Title: Factual Belief, Religious Credence, and Unamuno’s Puzzle of the Pious Skeptic.
3. Takashi Sasaki, Adjunct Lecturer, Kansai University, Japan.
   Title: The Will to Believe or the Will to Doubt: William James and Bertrand Russell on Faith, Science, and Epistemic Attitude.

1. Maria Majorie Purino, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of San Carlos, Philippines.
   Title: Buddhism and A.I. Grief Bots: Heideggerian Thanatology Perspectives.
2. Charles Louis Jayme, Dean of Studies & Vice Rector, San Carlos Seminary College, Philippines.
   Title: Interconnectedness: A Moral Imperative in the Light of Murray Bookchin’s Social Ecology.
3. Silvia Fazzo, Associate Professor, University of Eastern Piedmont “Amedeo Avogadro”, Iatly.
   Title: The Communion of Saints and the Shared Intellect: From Aristotle’s Nous to the Experience of Artificial Intelligence.
4. Maria Rosaria D’Acierno Canonici Cammino, Associate Professor, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
   Title: Nietzsche: A Musician, A Poet, A Philosopher.

1. Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva, Teaching Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
   Title: Ecocide and Epistemicide: The Aral Sea as a Clash of Soviet Technofix and Situated Ecological Wisdom.
2. Don Thomas Deere, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, USA.
   Title: Édouard Glissant’s Decolonial Landscape and Abyssal Racial Reason.
3. Jomilin John, Researcher, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
   Title: Reimaging the Philosophy of Collective Responsibility as Response- able Stakeholderism.

1. Zoltan Gyenge, Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary.
   Title: Time, Moment and Eternity Kierkegaard’s Theory of Time.
2. Jonah Tyan, PhD Candidate, National Central University, Taiwan.
   Title: The Structure of Meaning at Work: Existential Analysis of Care Through Being and Time.
3. Juanita Meyer, Associate Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa.
   Title: Ethics of Being: Towards a Theological Framework for Pastoral and Spiritual Care in Africa.

1. Xavier Pavie, Professor, ESSEC Business School, France.
   Title: From Subject to Citizen-Actor: Reinventing Democracy through Civic Innovation and Creative Resistance.
2. Eduardo Ruiz Vieytez, Professor, University of Deusto (Bilbao), Spain.
   Title: Local Policies on Religious Minorities: Practical Experiences Applied in Spain.
3. Esma Kayar, Associate Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Türkiye.
   Title: The Methodological Debate between Aristotle and Eubulides.

1. Asimina Galanopoulou, PhD Student, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
   Title: Pain as a Disciplinary and Self-Disciplinary Practice in St. Augustine, M. Foucault and Post-Structural Feminist Thought.
2. Alina Pelteacu, PhD Student, University of Bucharest, Romania.
   Title: Augustine’s Theological Hermeneutics of Incarnation: A Paradigm for Healing in the Era of Excarnation.
3. Grigol Bendeliani, PhD Student, Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary, Georgia.
   Title: The Processes of Raising and Educating Children in Georgian Ancient Monasteries.

1. Nadja Furlan Stante, Professor, Science and Research Centre of Koper, Slovenia.
   Title: Emotion, Gender, and Relationality: From Biblical Narratives to AI-Mediated Life.
2. Jennifer Ang, Associate Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore.
   Title: Limits of Artificial Moral Reasoners.
3. Matt Matherne, Adjunct Faculty, Saint Edward’s University, USA.
   Title: The Epistemic Value of Outsourcing to AI.

1. Ullrich Kleinhempel, Research Fellow, University of the Free State, South Africa.
   Title: The Genesis of Hesychasm by the Neoplatonic Reception of Yoga in Antiquity – Common Features, the Reception, and Consequences for Interpretation.
2. Alice Reininger, Independent Researcher, Austria.
   Title: The Unheard Cry of Laocoön.
3. Alexandru Socaciu, PhD Candidate, University of Bucharest, Romania.
   Title: The Mission of the Military Priest: A Small Canonical, Patristic, and Biblical Analysis for the Current Context.