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J.B. Delston
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Assistant professor of philosophy @UMSL: ethics, applied ethics, social and political philosophy, feminism. Author of Medical Sexism. https://sites.google.com/view/jdelston/
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I'll make some exceptions
June 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The only person I call King
Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Friday and Saturday!
Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry Res Philosophica Conference at Saint Louis University April 25-26, 2025 Pere Marquette Gallery, Saint Louis University Friday, April 25 9:00 – 9:15 Opening remarks 9:15 – 10:00 Holly Andersen, Simon Fraser University “Pragmatist Measurement and Positive Possibility” 10:00 – 10:45 Commentator: Marina DiMarco, Washington University and Q&A Chair: Aja Watkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison 10:45 – 11:00 Break 11:00 – 11:45 David Stump, University of San Francisco “Lessons from Pragmatism for Philosophers of Science: Nine Teachings and a Cautionary Tale” 11:45 – 12:30 Commentator: Tom Kaspers, University of Chicago and Q&A Chair: William Rehg, SJ, Saint Louis University 12:30 – 2:15 Lunch 2:15 – 3:00 Sharyn Clough, Oregon State University “Peace and Pragmatism: Responding to Polarized Science Policy.” 3:00 – 3:45 Commentator Ge Fang, Washington University and Q&A Chair: Sahar Joakim Resch, St. Louis Community College, Meramec 3:45 – 4:00 Break 4:00 – 4:10 Introduction to Wade Memorial Lecture by Scott Ragland, Chair, Saint Louis University Department of Philosophy 4:10 – 5:00 Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University “Scientific Practice and Radical Naturalism” (Wade Memorial Lecture) 5:00 – 5:30 Q&A Chair: Kent Staley, Saint Louis University 5:30 – 6:30 Reception 6:45 Conference Dinner: Salsa Rosada/Mayo Ketchup, 3135 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63103 Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry Saturday, April 26 9:30 – 10:15 Sabina Leonelli, Technical University of Munich “Contrasting Visions of Inquiry in an Open Society” (via Zoom) 10:15 – 11:00 Commentator: Anya Plutynski, Washington University and Q&A Chair: Jill Delston, University of Missouri St. Louis 11:00 – 11:15 Break 11:15 – 12:00 Matthew Brown, Southern Illinois University Carbondale “What is Pragmatist about the New ‘Pragmatist’ Philosophy of Science?” 12:00 – 12:45 Commentator: Zachary Mayne, University of Pittsburgh and Q&A Chair: Anna Marmadoro, SLU 12:45 – 2:30 Lunch
April 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Coming up! #philsky #medicalsexism #bioethics
April 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Looking forward to giving two talks today and to the student presentations tomorrow! #medicalsexism #philsky #bioethics
April 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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We are looking forward to hosting Dr. Robert Lippert from the National Park Service on Thursday at 1pm in MSC Chamber for Engaged Philosophy Speaker Series. The exhibit will be on view April 1-15 on MSC Bridge #philsky #UMSLproud
Thursday April 3rd @1pm @MSC Chamber, History of Slavery in St. Louis: A talk with Dr. Robert Lippert presented by Philosophy and the Engaged Philosophy Speaker Series. Make sure you check out the full exhibit on the MSC Bridge April 1-15th. Sponsored by the UMSL Museum, Heritage, and Public History Programs
April 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Our Black History Month celebration at #UMSL Philosophy Department is today at 5pm! We'll be serving soul food from Adina's Vegan Cuisine and have invited Rev. Michelle Higgins to speak. Join us! #philsky
February 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Looking forward to this session today at the C-APA #philsky
February 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Presented today with Dr. Annah Bender on Missouri's terrible policy not to let pregnant women get divorced and the ways in which it connects to IPV and #medicalsexism at the Central APA. Virtual APA has had some snags but very impressive feat overall #philsky
February 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Check out #UMSL #Philosophy MA graduate, Lav McKittrick-Sweitzer's C-APA session tomorrow (1.8.T Teaching Hub: High School Philosophy Program 2 Friday February 21st, 9:55 - 11:50 CST) #philsky
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Looking forward to seeing #UMSL Philosophy undergrad Eleanor Grissom's poster at the C-APA tonight. (1.6.T Teaching Hub Student Research and Faculty SoTL Poster Session Thursday February 20th, 6:55 - 8:10 CST)
February 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Congratulations @michciurria.bsky.social for your the Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize, announced at this year's Central Division of the APA! #philsky
February 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Announcing the Munson Prize, which is being revived after a brief hiatus! All submissions will be sent out to be externally refereed. All currently enrolled #UMSL students are eligible to submit. Deadline 3/30/25
The 2025 Competition The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the annual competition for the Ronald Munson Essay Prizes in Philosophy. Two prizes will be given: one for the best philosophy paper by an UMSL undergraduate, and one for the best philosophy paper by an UMSL graduate student in philosophy. Each prize comes with a $150 award. The essay prizes are named in honor of Ronald Munson, a distinguished medical ethicist and philosopher of science who taught in UMSL's Department of Philosophy from 1967 until his retirement in 2010. Eligibility To be eligible for the Undergraduate Essay Prize, you must currently be enrolled as an undergraduate at UMSL. (You need not be a philosophy major or minor.) To be eligible for the Graduate Essay Prize, you must currently be enrolled in the Philosophy M.A. Program. You are allowed to submit only one paper per annual competition. The paper may be a paper you wrote for a course, a revised version of a seminar paper, part of a thesis project, or something you have written independently. There is no minimum length requirement, but papers exceeding 8,000 words will not be considered. You are welcome to write on any topic in philosophy. Format, Deadline, and Review Process Please submit an electronic copy of your paper by email attachment to Jill Delston at delstonj@umsystem.edu. The paper must be formatted so that it can be sent out for anonymous review. Your name should not appear anywhere in the attached file but do include both your name and your preferred e-mail address in your initial e-mail. Also, please include “Munson Prize” in the subject line of your email and indicate whether you are submitting for the graduate or undergraduate prize. Create a title page for your paper with both a full title and a word count. Papers should be double-spaced. Any style of citation is acceptable, so long as that style is used consistently throughout the paper. Improperly formatted papers may not be considered. Papers …
February 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Thank you @michciurria.bsky.social for assigning my (unpublished!) work and inviting me to speak to your students. What a thoughtful and dynamic classroom you have fostered!
WashU at night
February 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Minorities and Philosophy at UMSL Department of Philosophy is hosting a Black History Month celebration on February 25th at 5pm with guest speaker Reverend MichelleHiggins. We'll have pizza! Join us!
Minorities and Philosophy at UMSL Department of Philosophy is hosting a Black History Month celebration on February 25th at 5pm. We'll have pizza! Join us!
February 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Excited to be the keynote at Pacific University's 27th annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference! CFP below. Send your students!! www.pacificu.edu/about/events...
CALL FOR PAPERS 27th ANNUAL PACIFIC UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE April 18-19, 2025 Pacific University Forest Grove, Oregon The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for the presentation of philosophical work of undergraduates to their peers. Submissions: Papers are required to be of philosophical content, but there are no specific restrictions on subject matter within the arena of philosophical discussion itself. Papers should be approximately 2,500-3000 words. Electronic submissions are required and should be sent to Ramona Ilea at ramona.ilea@pacificu.edu by February 15th , 2025. Submissions should include both the full paper and an abstract of no more than 200 words. Please send your paper, prepared for anonymous review, as an email attachment. The attachment should be a single word document with title, abstract, paper, and bibliography. In the body of the email, please include the title of your paper, your name, and your university. This is strictly an undergraduate conference, with only undergraduates allowed on the conference program. The single exception is the keynote speaker. Past keynotes speakers have included: Paul Churchland, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, Keith Lehrer, Catherine Elgin, John Perry, Hubert Dreyfus, Jerry Fodor, Alvin Plantinga, Cora Diamond, James Sterba, Peter Kivy, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Daniel Dennett, Elliott Sober, Alva Noë, L.A. Paul, Susan Haack, John Martin Fischer, and Manuel Vargas. The 2025 Keynote Speaker will be Jill Delston “Medical Sexism and Reproductive Health Care” For more information, see https://sites.google.com/view/jdelston/ For further information about the 27th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, see https://www.pacificu.edu/about/events/camps-conferences-workshops/undergraduate-philosophy-conference For questions, contact Ramona Ilea via email (ramona.ilea@pacificu.edu)
February 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Suerynn Lee in the New Yorker
“This is most likely caused by the stress of having your symptoms constantly dismissed, but I wouldn’t worry about it.” New Yorker Cartoon by Suerynn Lee
January 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Looking forward to presenting a longer version of our restorative justice paper with Annah Bender at WashU's WPES next month. Check out the flyer, full of great talks
WORKSHOP IN POLITICS, ETHICS, AND SOCIETY Interdisciplinary approaches to political theory since 2002 Jan 31 Enfranchisement and the Rights of Freeborn Englishmen, c.1500–1800 Steve Hindle, History Discussant: Derek Hirst, History Feb 7 Surviving Overkill: Trans Health in Dark Times Tamsin Kimoto, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Discussant: Christina Ramos, History Feb 14 Restorative Justice: Intimate Partner Violence and a Theory of Justice Jill Delston, Philosophy, University of Missouri St. Louis; and Annah Bender, Social Work, University of Missouri St. Louis Discussant: Tonya Edmond, Brown School Feb 21 The Logic of Misogyny in Sport Lucy Vollbrecht, Civil Society Initiative Discussant: Diana O’Brien, Political Science Feb 28 The Myth of Thinking for Yourself Simon Feldman, Philosophy, Connecticut College Discussant: John Inazu, Law Mar 28 Border Fortification and Trust in Political Institutions David Carter, Political Science Discussant: Anne Schult, History Apr 4 Critical Social Theory and the Question of Ontology Martin Saar, Philosophy, Goethe University Discussant: William Rehg, Philosophy, St. Louis University Apr 11 Conceptualizing Structure Mara Marin, Political Science, University of Victoria Discussant: Esther Ng, Philosophy Papers will be distributed one week prior to each session. To receive workshop invitations, please contact wupoliticaltheory@gmail.com. WPES is supported by generous contributions from: Washington University’s School of Arts & Sciences; the Law School; the Weidenbaum Center; the programs in American Culture Studies and Legal Studies; and the Departments of Political Science, Philosophy, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. ~ Spring 2025 ~ Fridays 12:00–1:30 pm at Washington University, Seigle Hall 152 (in the Weidenbaum Center)
January 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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E-APA was a blast. I have to go back to real life now?
January 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I'll be presenting a paper, "Restorative Justice: Intimate Partner Violence and a Theory of Justice" with my colleague Annah Bender at the Eastern Division of the APA in NYC Friday 2-3:50pm. The paper examines interviews with survivors and develops an account of justice using these folk conceptions:
Colloquium: (In)justice Chair: Sharon Fray-Witzer (Boston College) Speaker: Susan Erck (Mississippi State University) “Etiology of Injustice” Commentator: Rachel Finlayson (Columbia University) Speakers: Jill Delston (University of Missouri–St. Louis) and Annah Bender (University of Missouri–St. Louis) “Restorative Justice: Intimate Partner Violence and a Theory of Justice” Commentator: Michael Greer (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
January 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Honored to be the keynote for the upcoming St. Louis Undergraduate Conference in May! Send your students!
www.saharjoakim.net/events.html
Date: May 3, 2025
Venue: Saint Louis University, II Monastero
Keynote: Jill B. Delston, Ph.D. [UMSL]
​Organizer: Sahar Joakim Resch, [sjoakim@stlcc.edu]
May 3 2025: St. Louis Undergraduate Conference Submit by 2/21/2025
December 10, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Learn more about and apply to UMSL Philosophy's new Bioethics Certificate!
APPLY NOW A Bioethics Certificate can help take you where you want to go. If you are clinician, it can give you mastery of ethical concepts and theories that can improve the medical care you provide. If you are a philosopher, it can give you the clinical experience you need to understand and solve bioethical dilemmas. Ethical issues pervade the life sciences in research and medicine. Values-based decisionmaking are central to the medical care we give and receive. Cutting edge technology raises an ever-changing set of moral dilemmas, which, in turn, changes the face of medicine. How can we identify, justify, explain and how can we implement these values? Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates both philosophical concepts as well as scientific and medical principles to better answer these questions. As an interdisciplinary field, the best bioethicists, and those best placed to offer ethical care, will have mastery in both the humanities and the sciences. The Graduate Certificate in Bioethics enables students to incorporate rigorous ethical thinking into their clinical degrees. REQUIREMENTS The Graduate Certificate in Bioethics blends the missions and values of the medical field and social work for equitable service provision, knowledgeable development of ethical policies and just professional decision making at the institutional, local, or state level. This program provides an interdisciplinary exploration of bioethical issues that arise in health care, biological sciences and emerging technologies. It is applicable to students with interests in nursing, social work, law, public policy, public health, philosophy, and theology. Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to: Identify and deconstruct bioethical problems in health care, systems, policies, and laws; Apply ethical principles, norms, and theories in ethically complex situations to facilitate open and informed discussion among multiple stakeholders; Apply ethical theories and methods to real-world bioethical dilemmas; Describe the essential theories and methods that underpin the ethics of public health, clinical care, science, and research; Identify and describe basic clinical concepts and processes in nursing and social work as well as connect them to present and future bio-ethical dilemmas
November 26, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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For my first bsky post, a publication out today on the ethics of precision health, where I take a principilist approach to the issues on research and medicine in that space. Contact me for a copy of the chapter shop.elsevier.com/books/implem...
November 25, 2024 at 3:19 PM