Category: Philosophy

Recent UD Philosophical Research & Publications

April 10, 2026 Written by Department of Philosophy

Faculty publications and presentations over the last year

Since the Department of Philosophy's last spring newsletter, University of Delaware faculty have published on a wide variety of topics and discussed their research in a variety of venues. 

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Carla Merino-Rajme

Carla Merino-Rajme

Carla Merino-Rajme, assistant professor, presented “On Dynamism” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and commented on a paper at the New England Workshop on Metaphysics at Rhode Island College.

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Joel Pust

Joel Pust

Joel Pust, professor and chair, published a short article on intuitions in philosophy in Filozofuj!, a Polish philosophy magazine for the public.

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Thomas Powers

Thomas Powers

Thomas Powers, associate professor, was featured on Morning Wave Busan (a Korean English-language radio station with a video feed). Watch their discussion on “Moltbook and the rise of AI-only Social Networks.”

He published “Deontology in AI” in the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy of AI (Wiley-Blackwell), “Understanding Sociotechnical Systems” in Computer Ethics Across the Disciplines (Springer), and, with co-authors, “Leveraging Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Knowledge Graphs to Identify Latent Patterns in Veteran Suicide Risk,” and “Roadmap for Responsible Robotics.”

Powers also gave several presentations on data science and AI, including one at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and one for the Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance.

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Katherin Rogers

Katherin Rogers

Katherin Rogers, professor, published “Optimism in Plato and the Neoplatonic Tradition” in Optimism and the Best Possible World (Routledge), “Can Libertarian Free Will be Reconciled with Divine Providence?” in Theologica, and “Saint Anselm on Individuality and Community” in The Saint Anselm Journal. She gave a talk on Anselm and atonement at the Rutgers Analytic Theology Seminar.

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Noel Swanson

Noel Swanson

Noel Swanson, associate professor, published a book review in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Review of Books. He also presented “Against Parochial Observables” at Princeton University and “Unistochastic Quantum Fields: Challenges and Opportunities” at the American Institute of Mathematics Indivisible Quantum Mechanics Workshop in the Bahamas.


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