Spring 2018 Workshop

The first of Princeton’s 2018 Compass workshop took place at Princeton University from February 9th through the 11th. The workshop featured a discussion session on the first night on presenting and facilitating seminars and five discussion sessions over the course of the two remaining days, led by undergraduate students, on papers in a variety of sub-disciplines within philosophy. In addition to discussion sessions, the workshop featured two advice sessions with female faculty mentors on the following topics: “Applying to Graduate School” and “How to Get the Most Out of Your Academic Experience”.

Readings

Ishani Maitra: “Silencing Speech”
Rachana Kamtekar: “Social Justice and Happiness in the Republic”
J. L. A Garcia: “The Heart of Racism”
Ruth Chang: “Hard Choices”
Ryan Preston-Roedder: “Faith in Humanity”

Faculty Mentors

Emmalon Davis |  www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/emmalon-davis/
Sukaina Hirji | www.sukaina-hirji.com/
Elliot Paul | philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/elliot-paul
Grace Helton | www.gracehelton.net/
Rachana Kamtekar | philosophy.cornell.edu/rachana-kamtekar
Jessica Moss | as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/jessica-moss.html

Undergraduate Participants

Firdaus Gupte (NYU)
Héctor Hernández (Yale University)
Kylie Long (Cornell University)
Lauren Harcarik (U Mass Boston)
Lorenzo Benitez (Cornell University)
Malley Chertkov (Wellesley College)
Natalie Cernius (Harvard University)
Tez Clark (Harvard)
Xinhue Yong (NYU)
Yanqui Deng (NYU)

Graduate Student Mentors

Aarthy Vaidyanathan (Princeton)
Adele Watkins (Princeton)
Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (Princeton)
Camilo Martinez (Princeton)
Cesar Cabezas Gamarra (Columbia)
Claudia Yau (Princeton)
Dee Payton (Rutgers)
Gabriel Shapiro (Princeton)
Helen Zhao (Columbia)
​Joy Shim (Princeton)
Michael Holmes (Princeton)
​Yarran Hominh (Columbia)

2017 Workshop

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Princeton’s 2017 Compass workshop took place from February 10th through the 12th. The workshop featured a discussion session on the first night on presenting and facilitating seminars and six discussion sessions over the course of the two remaining days, led by undergraduate students, on papers in a variety of sub-disciplines within philosophy. In addition to discussion sessions, the workshop featured two advice sessions with female faculty mentors on the following topics: “Thinking about Graduate School?” and “How to Get the Most Out of Your Academic Experience”.

Readings

Sally Haslanger: “What Are We Talking About? The Politics and Semantics of Social Kinds”
Sarah McGrath: “Causation by Omission”
Elisabeth Camp: “Metaphor and That Certain ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’”
Susan Wolf: “Moral Saints”
Christine Korsgaard: “Skepticism About Practical Reason”
Elizabeth Barnes: The Minority Body, Ch. 4

Faculty Mentors

Sarah McGrath | www.princeton.edu/~smcgrath/
Elizabeth Harman | www.princeton.edu/~eharman/
Jessica Moss | http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/jessicamoss
Grace Helton | http://www.gracehelton.net
Kathryn Tabb | http://www.kathryntabb.com
Susan Brison | http://philosophy.dartmouth.edu/people/susan-j-brison

Undergraduate Participants

Anugya Sood (NYU)
C Mandler (Bard College)
Christina Weinbaum (CUNY – Brooklyn)
Emma Farrell (Brandeis University)
Fani Ntavelou-Baum (Wellesley College)
Isis Davis-Marks (Yale University)
Jazlyn Cartaya (NYU)
Jocelyn Wang (Yale University)
Kate Yuan (NYU)
Khin Oo Khin (Kalamazoo College)
Lauren Spencer (CUNY – Hunter)
Rebecca Kosten (Wellesley College)
Ruby Shao (Princeton University)
Sam August (Rutgers University)
Taylor Tate (St. John’s University)
Zoey Payne (U Mass Amherst)

Graduate Student Mentors

Alisabeth Ayars (Princeton)
Aarthy Vaidyanathan (Princeton)
Claudia Dumitru (Princeton)
Claudia Yau (Princeton)
Domenica Romagni (Princeton)
Elena Di Rosa (Princeton)
Robin Dembroff (Princeton)
Snow Zhang (Princeton)

2016 Workshop

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The 2016 Compass Workshop — the first of its kind — took place at Princeton University on February 6th and 7th. The workshop featured six discussion sessions over the course of two days, led by graduate students, on recent papers in a variety of sub-disciplines within philosophy. In addition to discussion sessions, the workshop featured two advice sessions with female faculty mentors on the following topics: “Thinking about Graduate School?” and “How to Get the Most Out of Your Academic Experience”.

Readings

Michele M. Moody Adams: “Culture, Responsibility and Affected Ignorance
Karen Bennett: “There is No Special Problem with Metaphysics”
Elisabeth Camp: “Metaphor and That Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi”
A.W. Eaton: “Robust Immoralism”
Rae Langton: “Duty and Desolation”
L.A. Paul: “What You Can’t Expect When You’re Expecting

Faculty Mentors

Ruth Chang | www.ruthchang.net/
Elizabeth Harman | www.princeton.edu/~eharman/
Melissa Lane | www.princeton.edu/~mslane/mslane
Sarah Mcgrath | www.princeton.edu/~smcgrath/
L.A. Paul | www.lapaul.org/

Undergraduate Participants

​Maya Adereth (Hunter College, CUNY)
Fior Aviles (Rutgers)
Alex Reblando (Princeton)
Sammy Bensinger (Yale)
Vida Biggins (Columbia)
Julie Chen (Princeton)
Fiona Furnari (Princeton)
Anna Julia Hotter (Columbia)
Kara Hu (Penn)
Fanfang Lee (NYU)
Josephine Mellon (NYU)
Miriam Strom Natvig (Stanford)
Laura Ong (Princeton)
Megan Stater (Columbia)
Elise Sugarman (Stanford)
Jesi Taylor (CUNY Brooklyn College)
Masako Toyoda (Princeton)
Amanda Susan Webster (NYU)
Tina Wei (Princeton)
Rebecca Wellington (CUNY)
Christina Welsh (Princeton)

Graduate Student Mentors

Rachel Cristy (Princeton)
scholar.princeton.edu/rcristy/home
Robin Dembroff (Princeton)
www.princeton.edu/~dembroff
Blake Francis (Stanford)
vpge.stanford.edu/people/blake-francis
Sukaina Hirji (Princeton)
www.sukaina-hirji.com/
Erin Islo (Princeton)
scholar.princeton.edu/erini/home
Yena Lee (Princeton)
scholar.princeton.edu/yenal
Meica Magnani (Stanford) philosophy.stanford.edu/people/meica-magnani
Katy Meadows (Stanford)
philosophy.stanford.edu/people/katy-meadows
Domenica Romagni (Princeton) scholar.princeton.edu/domenica/home