2025 Promotion and Tenure Awardees
Lauren Ashwell
Promoted to Professor of Philosophy
Terminal degree and institution: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scholarly and creative work: Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology with a focus on self-knowledge of desire, philosophy of language on gendered slurs and hate speech, and feminist philosophy.
Artificial Systems as Disposition Bearers
Gendered Slurs
Introspection and the nature of desire
Conflicts of Desire
Possibilities of misidentification
Projection, Desire, and Transparency
Superficial dispositionalism
Deep, dark...or transparent? Knowing our desires
The metaphysics of desire and dispositions