The University of Miami offers a variety of summer internships in ethics and the professions and general philosophy. Interns, who receive a modest stipend, meet regularly in small groups that include didactic sessions and at which they update faculty and each other on progress in their projects. Students are expected to complete a final, written report at the end of the summer. With rare exceptions, only UM students are eligible for these summer internships.
Established in 1996, the Summer Ethics Internship Program is traditionally sponsored by the University of Miami Ethics Programs, the Department of Philosophy, the College of Arts & Sciences and the Offices of the Provost and Vice Provost for Research.
For more information, contact ethics@miami.edu.
2023
- AKTAS, Duygu
A Two-Dimensional Account of Gender
- CHE, Taekyung
How Representations Provide Understanding
- CHEN, Yukun
Dual process in inference
- HOOGERHYDE, Daniel
The case for Mandatory Post-Mortem Organ Donation
- HUSSAINI, Wali
- KIM, Yeun
Quantum Mechanics Investigation
- LOTA, Kenji
How do we come up with questions?
- MA, Zhiyao
Quantum Mechanics Investigation
- MILLER, Curtis
Mathematical Discourse and the Semantic Analysis of Achievement Verbs
- RYU, Hwan
- TORSOE, Katrina
- VILLA, Katherine
Offense, Emotion Regulation, and Affective Injustice
- WITTOW, Ged
What does it mean to be valuable?
- YANG, Ziren
2022
- AKTAS, Duygu
Presentation: Meaning and Referentiality of Great Apes’ Signals”. Philosophy Research Forum, University of Miami, September 21, 2022.
- CISNEROS, Nicholas
Rioting as Self
- GUTIERREZ VIVANCO, Melisa
Presentation: “Mathematical Grounding.” 17th Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, July 24, 2023. [link]
- HUSSAINI, Wali
Presentation: “Constructing Constructivism: Humeanism vs. Kantianism about Values and Reasons”. Philosophy Research Forum, University of Miami, October 12, 2022.
- KIM, Yeun
Presentation: "Neo Berkeleyan Idealism: Appearance Idealism" Florida Philosophy Association, Sarasota, February 4, 2023. [link]
Presentation: “Making Idealism More Attractive” at Philosophy Research Forum, University of Miami, 2022 Fall.
- MILLER, Curtis
- NICOLA, Nicholas
Presentation: Group Silencing and Testimonial Exclusion, University of Vienna 2021, University of Miami 2021, and Centre for Research in Ethics, Montreal 2023.
- RYU, Hwan
Constitutive Russellian Panpsychism and Subject Combination Problem
- VILLA, Katherine
Do Statues Harm? Blame and Affective Injustice in the Case of Confederate Monuments
- YANG, Ziren
Presentation: "A Matrix of Exploratory Simulations” Philosophy Research Forum, University of Miami, Oct. 12 2022.
2021
No Awards
2020
- CANTALAMESSA, Elizabeth
- CISNEROS, Nicholas
Fusions-in-General
- GUTIERREZ VIVANCO, Melisa
An Account of Natural Numbers Published as “Referential uses of Arabic Numerals.” Manuscrito–International Journal of Philosophy, 43(4): 1–23, 2020, DOI: 10.1590/0100- 6045.2020.V43N4.MV
Presentation: “2+2 = 4 but...I have different data! ” The Chronoscope Corner, Oral Narration and Cultural Management Association, September 7, 2021. Flyer.
Presentation: “Mathematical Truth.” Physics and Feynman, Science Popularization Network, October 15, 2021. Video.
Presentation: “Logic and Metaphysics of Properties.” LogicaMx, January 14, 2022. Video.
- HANSON-PARK, Jared
Presentation: "Structural Realism, Limiting Principles, and Naturalized Metaphysics." Philosophy of Science Association 27th Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, November 12, 2021
Presentation: "Structural Realism and Agnosticism about Objects." Global Philosophy, vol. 33, 2023, online first: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10516-023-09682-2
- HANSON-PARK, Kari
A Proposal for a Contractualist Philosophy of Disability
- LIU, Shih Hao
Presentation: "On the Relation Between Epistemology of Essence and Modal Epistemology." Western Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, September 30, 2022.
Presentation: "On the Relation Between Epistemology of Essence and Modal Epistemology." Federal University of São Paolo Graduate Student Conference, Online, October 25, 2022.
- LOTA, Kenji
Inquiring without Suspending
- MA, Zhiyao
The Foundation of Moral Principles
- MILLER, Curtis
- NICOLA, Nicholas
Testimony as Joint Activity
- RYU, Hwan
Presentation: "Primitive Arithmetical Terms and Neo-Fregean Epistemology of Arithmetic." UM Philosophy Department Philosophy Research Forum, Miami, September 15, 2020.
- VILLA, Katherine
Presentation: "Cuban Nostalgia and the Moral Cost of Affective Relations to the Past."
- WATTS, Matthew
Presentation: "A World of Niftiness: From Panpsychism to Pan-niftyism" The Science of Consciousness 2023, Taormina, Italy, May 24, 2023 [link]
2019
- NICOLA, Nicolas
Testimony as Joint Activity
- MUSGRAVE, Shea
A Response to Sensitivity-Based Epistemological Objections to Platonism
- LIU, Shih-Hao
Epistemic Goal, Epistemic Teleology and Trade-off Objection
- VILLA, Kate
Freedom, Normativity, and the Importance of Affective Reactions to Injustice
2018
- ALVES MOREIRA, Felipe
From Pyrrhonism to the System of Disputes
- CANTALAMESA, Elizabeth
Intentional Miscommunication, Lexical Effects, and Conceptual Engineering
- DIDOMENICO, David
On the Nature of Good Theoretical Inference
- HANSON-PARK, Jared
Russell's Epistemic Structuralism: From Problems of Philosophy to Human Knowledge
- HANSON-PARK, Kari
Educational Aims and Students with Disabilities
- LANDERS, Casey
Cognitive Penetration Through Imagination
- LOPEZ, Azenet
Phenomenal Consciousness is Necessary for Attention
Presentation: Phenomenal Consciousness is Necessary for Attention, MindGrad 2018: Perception and Perceptual Knowledge, University of Warwick, December 1, 2018.
- MATHIS, Haley
Empathy as Respect and the Objectification of Women
- MCMULLEN, Amanda
Appropriated Uses of Slurs as Status-Relevant Speech Acts
- NICOLA, Nicolas
Implicit Bias, Cognitive Penetration, and Perceptual Learning
Presentation: Implicit Bias, Cognitive Penetration, and Perceptual Learning, New Perspectives on the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception, Turin Italy, December 10, 2018.
- ODITO, John
Maturity, Morality and Authenticity
- SEO, Ji Soo
Husserl’s Method of Free Variation and Thought Experiments
- ODITO, John
Maturity, Morality and Authenticity
- TIPPENS, Daniel
I Remember You Differently
- VIVANCO, Melisa
Numbers as Properties, Dissolving Benacerraf's Tension Presentation: Numbers as Properties, Dissolving Benacerraf's Tension, Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague, August 7, 2019. [https://easychair.org/smart-program/CLMPST2019/]
- WATTS, Matthew
Teaching Ethics in Schools: Importance, Utility, and Methods
2017
- MOREIRA, Felipe G. A.
Historicizing and Rearticulating Ontology and Grounding
Presentation: Historicizing and Rearticulating Ontology and Grounding, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Philosophy and Social Sciences Institute (IFCS), organized by the Logic and Metaphysics Graduate Program and Professor Guido Imaguire, August 2, 2017.
- ASCHLIMAN, Lance
Evidentialism and the No Rewards Principle
- CANTALAMESSA, Elizabeth
Disability Studies, Conceptual Ethics, and Metalinguistic Negotiation
Presentation: Disability Studies, Conceptual Ethics, and Metalinguistic Negotiation, Northern Illinois University, Northern Graduate Conference, October 2017. Also to be presented at the Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2018.
- DIDOMENICO, David
On the Priority of Epistemic Basing Events
- HAUPTFELD, Adam
Phenomenal Structure and Phenomenal Content
- LANDERS, Casey
Gestalt properties, Associative Mechanisms, and the Contents of Perceptual Experience
- LOCKE, Theodore
The Role of Counterpossibles in Conceptual Ethics
- MATHIS, Haley
Care Ethics, Reactive Attitudes without responsibility
- MCMULLEN, Amanda
What are we doing when we use Synecdoche?
Presentation: What are we doing when we use Synecdoche?, presented at the University of Iceland at the "Who's Got the Power? A Philosophical Critique of Social and Political Structures" conference, October 2017. Also presented at the Florida Philosophical Association in Ocala, November 2017.
- ODITO, John
The Concept of Maturity
2016
- ASCHLIMAN, Lance
The Epistemic Value of True Belief (or the Lack Thereof)
- CORRIGAN, Daniel
Adjudicating Environmental Disputes in Human Rights Courts: Six Mutually Supporting Benefits
Presentation: Adjudicating Environmental Disputes in Human Rights Courts: Six Mutually Supporting Benefits, MANCEPT Workshop in Political Theory, University of Manchester, UK, September 8, 2016.
- DIDOMENICO, David
Moral Perception, Inference, and Imagination
Presentation: Moral Perception, Inference, and Imagination, Florida Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Melbourne, November 5, 2016; and forthcoming in Balcerak-Jackson, M., Balcerak-Jackson, B., eds. Reasoning. Essays on Theoretical and Practical Thinking. Oxford University Press.
- JHOU, Nihel
Daoist Conception of Time: Is Time Merely a Mental Construction?
- LANDERS, Casey
Inserted thoughts are mind pops: Preserving the subjectivity of consciousness
Presentation: Inserted thoughts are mind pops: Preserving the subjectivity of consciousness, poster, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Summer 2016.
- LOPEZ, Azenet
Non-descriptivism of Emotion and Sensation Attributions
Presentation: Non-descriptivism of Emotion and Sensation Attributions, American Association of Mexican Philosophers, Syracuse, NY, September 2016.
- MATHIS, Haley
A Moral Sentimentalist Account of Punishment
- MCMULLEN, Amanda
What is the Truth-Conditional Content of Slurs?
- MUSGRAVE, Shea
There is No Easy Road to Platonism
- ODITO, John
The Doctrine of Neocentrism
- SCHUMMER, Jordan
Movement and Temporality in Film
2015
- ASCHLIMAN, Lance & SCHUMMER, Jordan
A Contextualist Semantics for Aesthetic Judgments. Published as Lance Aschliman and Jordan Schummer. A contextualist semantics for aesthetic judgments. Inquiry 2016;59(6):632-662.
- DIDOMENICO, David
Moral Perception, Intuitionism, and A Priori Knowledge
- LOCKE, Theodore
Counterpossibles for Modal Normativists
- LOPEZ, Azenet
The Universe Is Not A Fundamental Object
- MATHIS, Haley
Care Ethics and Just Enough Paternalism, (i) Care Ethics' New Theory of Respect, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, UK, Sept. 11-13, 2017; (ii) Care Ethics' New Theory of Respect, Gender and Autonomy Conference, University of Bristol, UK, June 5, 2017; (iii) "Moral Sentimentalism's New Theory of Respect," Inclusive Philosophies Conference, Purdue University, April 21-21, 2017.
- MOREIRA, Felipe G.A.
Images of Philosophy
- THEIXOS, Heleana
Ticking Time-Bomb Torture Cases and Moral Injury
- TZINMAN, Rina
An Argument for Survivalism
2014
- ASCHLIMAN, Lance
Exploitation and Research on the Vulnerable. Also, grant supported and influenced work on 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference: Biomedical Epistemology and Bioethics, 16-18 October 2014, University of Miami.
- Corrigan, Daniel
Political Conceptions of Human Rights and Corporate Obligation. In The Political-Moral Controversy Over Human Rights [working title], eds. Maliks, R, Schaffer, JK; under review.
- EL ALI, Rami
A New Solution to the Gamer’s Dilemma. The Philosophy of Computer Games, 13 November 2014, Istanbul; revised version presented at American University of Beirut, 16 February 2015.
- MATHIS, Haley
Gender Equality and Biomedical Enhancement. Florida Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, 14-15 November 2014, Tampa.
- SCHWIND, Philipp
Towards an Intuitionist Moral Epistemology Without Self-Evidence. German Society for Analytic Philosophy, 14-17 September 2015, Osnabrück, Germany.
- THEIXOS, Heleana
The Responsibility for Moral Repair in a Post-Atrocity Community. Dissertation chapter.
- YELLE, Ben
Objective Goods and the Subjective Intuition, submitted to the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association and the “Understanding Value” conference at Sheffield University. In addition, the paper formed a significant part of chapter two of the dissertation “Realizing What Matters,” successfully defended in October 2014.
2012
- CORRIGAN, Daniel
Work-Related Human Rights and the Responsibilities of Business
- HAMPIKIAN, Daniel
The Morality of Animal Experimentation for Medical Purposes: A Model for Comparing Animal and Human Life and Wellbeing
- MORRISON, Monica
The Ethics of Vaccination Refusal: Epistemic Bias, Individual Choice, and the Health of the Public
- NEIMAN, Robin
GRADE-ing Equipoise:Formulating “Clinical Equipoise” as a GRADE System Policy Recommendation
- SCHWIND, Philipp & WAI, Ho Man
The Epistemology of Ethical Intuitionism
- YELLE, Ben
Advanced Euthanasia Directives and Physician-Assisted Suicide at the Margins of Agency: The Dutch’s Experience with Alzheimer’s AEDs
2011
- COHEN, Daniel
A Defense of Two-Level Ethical Theories
- HAMPIKIAN, Daniel
Why Morality is Possible without Critical Self-Reflection in Humans and Animals: A Reply to Korsgaard
- SCHWIND, Philipp
Ross and Aristotle
- THEIXOS, Heleana
2008
- BURGIS, Ben
- COHEN, Daniel
- HAMPIKIAN, Daniel
Developing A Confucian Model for Moral Improvement within a Care Ethical System
- WARREN, Mark
Ethics and Psychopathy
2007
- ALPHONSE, Noel
The Case Against Preventive War: An Analysis of the Prudential and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary American Foreign Policy
- COHEN, Daniel
Beliefs and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Explanation, Treatment, Understanding
- HURLBURT, David Michael
Is it Evil to Enjoy Imaginary Wicked Acts? Dissertation chapter.
- MONDY, Brian
Funniness and Normativity
- OAKLEY, Shane
Typology of Causes in Medical Malpractice
- Kristin Francoeur
Genetically Modified Organisms: The Development, Spread, and Legislation of GM Crops
- HOOSHMAND, Mary A.
Telemedicine for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Rural, Remote and Medically Underserved Areas: Is there an inherent ethical responsibility for insurance companies to provide coverage?
- KAYE, Amy L.
Whose Duty Is It? Nurses’ Role in Informed Consent
- HALBERSTAM, Manny (Brandeis University)
A Timeline of U.S. Quarantines
2006
- GAUTHIER, Peter
Ethics and Data Mining
- GILES, Liz
Ethics and Art Therapy
- HENNING, Alyssa Anne
Ethics and Ophthalmology
- HURLBURT, Michael
Facial Transplantation and Challenges to Informed Consent
Publication: Hurlburt M. Facial transplantation: Understanding the interests of patients and hurdles to informed consent. Medical Science Monitor 2007; 13(8): RA147-153. [https://www.medscimonit.com/download/index/idArt/491816]
Presentation: Hutlburt M. Facial Transplantation and Challenges to Informed Consent. 34th Annual Conference for Value Inquiry, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, April 12-14, 2007.
- OAKLEY, Shane
Ethics and Statistics
Resource: Oakley S. Statistics. Forthcoming on the “Ethics Curriculum Project, a Web-based, interdisciplinary, intercurricular moral reasoning resources”
2005
- BARRIOS, George
Advance Directives in Spanish
- MORRIS, Jeremy
Virtual Child Pornography
- OAKLEY, Shane
Ethics and Journalism
- SCHUH, Matthew
Ethics and Stem Cell Research
2004
- OAKLEY, Shane
A Philosophical Analysis of Stem Cell Research
- MORRIS, Jeremy
- MOTORWALA, Zarina
Project Medishare
- SCHUH, Matthew
2003
- KENYON, John
Ethical Evaluation of “Retainer Fee” Medical Practice
Publication: Needell MH, Kenyon JS. Ethical evaluation of “retainer fee” medical practice. The Journal of Clinical Ethics2005;16(1):72-84.
- LUO, Shirong
Empathy and Virtue: A Comparison of Two Novel Approaches to the Ethicality of Abortion
- ACOSTA-MORALES, Osvil
The Ethics of Quarantine or Ethics and Quarantines
- MOSKOWITZ, Ellen Lee
Ethics Across Borders or International Research Ethics (in collaboration with Sergio Litewka)
- GILES, Liz
Fetal Rights, Abortion, Child Abuse, and Guardianship
Presentation: Giles L. Wrongdoing, Entitlement and Binding Contracts with Nonexistent Beings.
Presented to the annual conference of the Florida Philosophical Association, St. Petersburg, Fall 2003.
- WINICK, Amber
Health Privacy in Different Cultures
2002
- MILES, Jennifer
The Possible Exploitation of Women in the Harvesting of Embryos for Stem Cell Research
- VEBER, Michael L.
Virtual Child Pornography
- WEAVER, Christopher & O'CALLAGHAN, Erin
Guardianship and Mental Incapacity
- EUSTACHE, Michelle
Ethics and Public Health
2001
- GOMBOSH, Michael
Inappropriate Incentives for Conducting Human Subjects Research
- JAGADISH, Padmini
End-of-Life Care
- KREIDER, A.J.
Varia
- LUO, Shiron
Ethics and Genetics
- OLSEN, Len
Ethics of Sport Fishing
Publication: Olsen L. Contemplating the intentions of anglers: The ethicist’s challenge. Environmental
Ethics 2003;25:267-277.
2000
- DUNDORF, Sarah & FRASER-BURGESS, Sheron
Conflicts of Interest in Professional Communities
- NEUNDER, Mark
The Moral Permissibility of Therapeutic Genetic Engineering
- PEARSON, Yvette
Obligations Towards Offspring Non-Paternalistic Arguments for Limiting the Freedom to Create New Persons
1999
- BORENSTEIN, Jason
Scientific Evidence and the Legal System
Publications:
Borenstein, J. The epistemic challenge of expert testimony. International Journal of
Politics and Ethics 2002; 2(3):225-42.
Borenstein, J. Authenticating expertise: philosophical and legal issues. International
Journal of Applied Philosophy 2002; 16(1):85-102.
Borenstein, J. Re-examining expert testimony. International Journal of Politics and
Ethics 2002;2(1):19-36.
Borenstein, J. Expertise and epistemology: can laypersons assess the claims of experts?
Philosophy in the Contemporary World 2002; 9(2):1-6.
Borenstein, J. An account of expertise: Goldman, Polanyi, and beyond. Appraisal 2001;
3(4):147-50.
- GANOVSKY, Peter
Authorship Policies and Recruitment of Human Subjects
- Satu Shah
Drug-seeking Behavior in Dade County Emergency Departments (continued)
- ZIDE, Kenneth
Pediatric Decision Making
1998
- COHEN, Ilana
The Talmud and Medical Ethics
1997
- ARNOLD, Jennifer
Ethical Considerations of Genetic Screening and Engineering for Skeletal Dysplasias
- BRICKMAN, Amy
Ethical Issues Involved in Genetic Testing for and Manipulation of Personality Traits
- BRUMER, Steven
Informed Consent Research and Tissue Sampling Policies
- KIRMSE, Brian
Drug-seeking Behavior in Dade County Emergency Departments
- NEWBURGE, Geri
Ethics and Public Health
- PAUL, Eby
Tissue Cataloguing at the University of Miami/ Jackson Memorial Health Center
1996
- GOLDBERG, Dan
The Ethics of Databases and Genetic Information
