Recent Research by Montclair Philosophy Faculty

Recent Publications

• Meghan Robison’s colloquium essay, “Foundations in J. Matthew Hoye’s Sovereignty as a Vocation: New Foundations Statecraft and Virtue in Hobbes’s Leviathan.” European Hobbes Society Online Colloquium, October 2024.

• Meghan Robison’s symposium essay, “Reanimating Hobbes’s Materialism: Afterthoughts on Samantha Frost’s Lessons from a Materialist Thinker,” was published in Hobbes Studies, October 2024.

• Tiger Roholt’s chapter, “Performance, Technology, and the Good Life,” is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook on the Phenomenology of Music. (Now available at Oxford Academic Online.)

• Jon Morgans paper, “What the Senses Cannot ‘Say’,” was published in Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 73 (2) 2023.

• Meghan Robison’s paper, “Mother Lords: Original Maternal Dominion and the Practice of Preservation in Hobbes,” was published in Hypatia 38 (1) 2023.

• Tiger Roholt’s book, Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones, was published with Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

• Meghan Robison’s paper, “From Expansionist Power to the Erosion of Bios in Arendt’s Interpretation of Hobbes,” was published in Arendt Studies, volume 6, 2022.

• Jon Morgan’s paper, “Content Externalism without Thought Experiments?,” was published in Analysis, Volume 82, Issue 1, January 2022.

• Jon Morgan’s paper, “The Phenomenal Representation of Size,” was published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, volume 99 (4) 2021.

• Tiger Roholt’s paper, “Being-with Smartphones” was published in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, volume 25 (2) 2021.

• Meghan Robison’s paper,  “The Appearance of Power in Hobbes’ Leviathan,” was published in Scienza & Politica: volume 31 (60) 2019.

• Jon Morgan’s essay, “Naïve Realism and Phenomenal Overlap,” was published in Philosophical Studies 174 (5): 1243-1253. 2017.

• Tiger Roholt’s paper, “On the Divide: Analytic and Continental Philosophy of Music,” was published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 75 (1) 2017.

Recent Conference Presentations

• Jon Morgan delivered the paper “Carving Up Phenomenal Space,” at the 111th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Cincinnati, Ohio. March, 2019.

• Meghan Robison delivered the paper, “Mother Lords and the Power of Preserving Life in Hobbes‘s Leviathan,” at the International Workshop on Hobbes and Gender, Institute for Political Science, FAU (Erlangen and Nuremberg, Germany). November 22–23, 2018.

• Meghan Robison delivered the paper, “Human Power Reconsidered: the Point of View of Life,” at Hobbes e il potere, University of Florence. May 17, 2018.

• Meghan Robison delivered the paper, “Life in Hobbes’ Leviathan,” at Colloque International Thomas Hobbes, October 27, 2017, Paris.

• Meghan Robison delivered the paper, “A Motion of Limbs: On the Movement of Life in Hobbes’ Leviathan,” at the Critical Philosophy of Life Conference at Duquesne University, hosted by Duquesne Women in Philosophy, March 24-25, 2017.

• Meghan Robison delivered the paper, “Moving in the State of Nature,” at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, January, 2017.