PhD student Alex Asay has returned to the department after a six-month military deployment overseas. He is the recipient of a Fall 2024 UGA Foundation scholarship through the Student Veterans Resource Center and was awarded The Air and Space Commendation Medal by the Air Force for his actions abroad. PhD student Robert Martin presented the paper "In Search of an Epistemic Home for Trust: a Proper Functionalist Journey" at the Gordon H. Clark Symposium: A Christian Philosophy Conference hosted by Covenant College of Lookout Mountain, GA in March of 2024. PhD student Rissa Willis presented the paper “The Aesthetics of Amateur Arts & Crafts” at the American Society for Aesthetics’s Southern Aesthetics Workshop at Auburn University in November. She also attended the National ASA conference recently, giving comments on a paper by fellow UGA philosophy student Mingxi Xu (see below). PhD student Mingxi Xu recently presented “‘Partners in Poor Taste’: Interactive ‘Bad’ Fanfiction, and Shame in Feminist Narratives” at the 82nd ASA Annual Meeting held in Chicago. Fellow UGA student Rissa Willlis was the commentator on this paper (see above). PhD candidate De Yang attended the PPE Graduate Summer Workshop at the Smith Institute for Political Economy & Philosophy Chapman University in July. He also received the Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. Type of News/Audience: Graduate Student News
