Even in the midst of their studies, our enterprising graduate students continue to find time to develop original contributions to the philosophical literature. The list below demonstrates the depth and variety of both the topics they pursue and the venues their work has appeared in. Only publications by currently enrolled students are listed.

Current graduate students: we would love to see your work appear on this page! Please send your citation information to philosophy@dornsife.usc.edu.

Blok-Esakia Theorems via Stable Canonical Rules; Antonio Maria Cleani & Nick Bezhanishvili (forthcoming)

Journal of Symbolic Logic

Mental Illness Terms and Hermeneutic Hijacking; Rachel Keith (forthcoming)

Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.

Designing an Undergraduate Philosophy Mentoring Program: A Response to the Leaky Pipeline; Rachel Keith, Robert Weston Siscoe, Lesley Walker, and Heather Brant (forthcoming)

Teaching Philosophy.

On the Utility of Research into Geoengineering Technologies for Risk-avoidant Agents; Milana Kostic (forthcoming)

Philosophy of Science:1-16.

Asymmetries of Value-Based Reasons; Philip Li (forthcoming)

Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

The Role of Imagination in Protest; Megha Devraj (2025)

Analysis 85 (1): 38-47.

On Synchronic Direct Intergenerational Reciprocity: A Reply to Corvino; Matthew Wiseman (2025)

Economics and Philosophy: 1-17. 

Resultant Luck and the Target of Epistemic Blame; Jordan Myers (2025)

Synthese 205 (6): 1-20. 

Taking Motivating Reasons’ Deliberative Role Seriously; Levy Wang (2025)

Philosophical Studies 182 (3).

Probabilistic Truth, Relativism, and Objective Chance; Svenja Schimmelpfennig (2023)

Episteme 20 (3): 757-777. 

Debunking Multiform Dimensionality: many, Romance tant-PL, & morpho-syntactic opacity; Antonio Maria Cleani & Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez (2022)

Proceedings of Salt32.

A Theory of Necessities; Jin Zeng & Andrew Bacon (2022)

Journal of Philosophical Logic 51 (1):151-199.

Evil Intuitions? The Problem of Evil, Experimental Philosophy, and the need for Psychological Research; Rebecca Carlson, Ian M Church, & Justin Barrett (2021)

Journal of Psychology and Theology 49 (2):126-141.

The Right and the Wren; Christa Peterson and Jack Samuel (2021)

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 7, 81-103.

Hedging and the Ignorance Norm on Inquiry; Yasha Sapir & Peter van Elswyk (2021)

Synthese 199 (3-4):5837-5859.