Mark Satta (hf1190)

Philosophy

Epistemology, Philosophy of Law, First Amendment Law, Philosophy of Language

• Oklahoma’s superintendent orders public schools to teach the Bible – relying on controversial views about religious freedom
• First Amendment violations in anti-drag laws
• Anti-LGBTQ laws in the US are getting struck down for limiting free speech of drag queens and doctors
• Why a federal judge found Tennessee’s anti-drag law unconstitutional
• Putin's brazen manipulation of language is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak
• Animal Farm at 75: How George Orwell’s tale of totalitarianism remains relevant today

Epistemology, philosophy of language, and related areas

• "Epistemic Exhaustion and the Retention of Power." Hypatia (forthcoming)
• "Moral Grandstanding and the Norms of Moral Discourse." (co-written with A.K. Flowerree). Journal of the American Philosophical Association (online first)
• "A Disjunctive Argument Against Conjoining Belief Impermissivism and Credal Impermissivism." Erkenntnis 89 (2024): 625-640
• "Reasoning One's Way Back into Skepticism." International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 13, 3 (2023): 202-224
• "Really Knowing: A Collocational Argument for an Infallibilist Sense of 'Know'." The Monist 106, 4 (2023):394-408
• "Epistemic Trespassing and Expert Witness Testimony." Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 22, 2 (2022): 212-238
• "Evil Twins and the Multiverse: Distinguishing the World of Difference Between Epistemic and Physical Possibility." Synthese 198, 2 (2021): 1153-1160
• “Contextualism and the Ambiguity Theory of ‘Knows’.” Episteme 17, 2 (2020): 209-29
• “Semantic Blindness and Error Theorizing for the Ambiguity Theory of ‘Knows’,” Analysis 78, 2 (2018): 275-84
• “A Linguistic Grounding for a Polysemy Theory of ‘Knows’,” Philosophical Studies 175, 5 (2018): 1163-82
• "The Ambiguity Theory of 'Knows'," Acta Analytica 33, 1 (2018): 69-83

Philosophy of law, First Amendment law, and related areas

• "Commercial Discrimination as Religious Messaging in 303 Creative v. Elenis." Religions 15, 37 (2024): 1-17
• "Shantay Drag Stays: Anti-Drag Laws Violate the First Amendment." Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 25, 1 (2023): 95-140
• "What Was Orwell's Conception of Free Speech?" George Orwell Studies 8, 1 (2023): 61-76
• "303 Creative v. Elenis: Masterpiece Cakeshop 2.0?” Canopy Forum, June 27, 2022
• "Epistemic Trespassing and Expert Witness Testimony." Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 22, 2 (2022): 212-238
• "Political Partisanship and Sincere Religious Conviction." Brigham Young University Law Review 47, 4 (2022): 1221-1274
• “Multi-Forum Institutions, the Power of Platforms, and Disinviting Speakers from University Campuses." Public Affairs Quarterly 35, 2 (2021): 94-118
• "Unclear Hostility: Supreme Court Discussions of ‘Hostility to Religion’ from Barnette to American Legion.” Buffalo Law Review 68, 2 (2020): 641-708

Other publications

• "George Orwell." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2022)
• "George Orwell on the Relationship Between Food and Thought." George Orwell Studies 5, 2 (2021): 76-89
• “Is There a Duty-Generating Special Relationship of Creator to Creature?” Sophia 59 (2020): 637-49

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Mark Satta holds a joint appointment in the Philosophy Department and the Law School at Wayne State University. His areas of research include the First Amendment (especially free speech and religious liberty), LGBTQ civil rights, constitutional law, philosophy and law, epistemology (especially social, political, and legal epistemology), and philosophy of language.

Prior to joining the faculty at Wayne State University in 2020, he was an associate at Harter Secrest & Emery LLP in his hometown of Rochester, NY. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Board of Student Advisers and an editor for the Harvard Law & Policy Review. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Purdue University.
 

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Ph.D. in Philosophy, Purdue University
J.D., Harvard Law School
B.A. in Philosophy, SUNY Brockport

“Commercial Discrimination as Religious Messaging in 303 Creative v. Elenis” Religions 15, 37 (2024): 1–17.

"Shantay Drag Stays: Anti-Drag Laws Violate the First Amendment.” Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 25, 1 (2023): 95–140.

“What Was Orwell’s Conception of Free Speech?” George Orwell Studies 8, 1 (2023): 61–76.

“Political Partisanship and Sincere Religious Conviction.” Brigham Young University Law Review 47, 4 (2022): 1221–74.

“Epistemic Trespassing and Expert Witness Testimony.” Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 22, 2 (2022): 213–238.

“Multi-Forum Institutions, the Power of Platforms, and Disinviting Speakers from University Campuses.” Public Affairs Quarterly 35, 2 (2021): 94–118.

“Unclear Hostility: Supreme Court Discussions of ‘Hostility to Religion’ from Barnette to American Legion.” Buffalo Law Review 68, 2 (2020): 641–708