Graduate Students Micah Trautmann and Lewis Wang Selected for Awards, Give Papers at APA Pacific 2022
The Department is proud to share that two of its graduate students, Lewis Wang and Micah Trautmann, were selected for awards and to present papers at the 2022 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The APA conference took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada two weeks ago and awarded Micah and Lewis each an APA Graduate Student Stipend for the year 2022.
As part of the Prize Reception, Micah presented, “The Harm of Containment,” and Lewis presented, “Hegel and the Problem of Poverty”.
“I argued that although Hegel does explicitly identify a solution to poverty in his Philosophy of Right,” says Lewis, “there is an implicit solution that we can reconstruct from his writings.”
The two were also included in several parts of the Divisional Programs’ Colloquia: Lewis presented his paper as the Speaker in the History of Philosophy Colloquium and served as Chair for the Responsibility and Blame Colloquium. Micah presented his paper as Speaker in the Colloquium on Responding to Harm.
Lewis is a third-year Ph.D. student in the department, and his main interests are Kant, Hegel, and Buddhist philosophy. Micah is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in the department, and his main interests are 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Heidegger), Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy, Plato, and the Pre-Socratics.
Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement, Micah and Lewis!