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Mark Satta (hf1190)

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Title: Assistant Professor

Unit: Philosophy

Department: College of Liberal Arts & Science

Contact information

313-577-2474

mark.satta@wayne.edu

Department of Philosophy

5057 Woodward Ave, Suite 12201.2

Detroit, 48202

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department:

Title: Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vitae: https://people.wayne.edu/profile/hf1190/1578/satta_cv_march_2024.pdf 247716 1710541687 file

Website: http://marksatta.com

Social Media: https://twitter.com/mark_satta

Research interest(s)/area of expertise:

Epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of law, First Amendment law

Education – Degrees, Licenses, Certifications: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Purdue University J.D., Harvard Law School B.A. in Philosophy, SUNY Brockport

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Selected publications:

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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Courses taught by Mark Satta

Winter Term 2024

Winter Term 2023

PHI5330 - Ethics, Law, and Health

Fall Term 2022

Winter Term 2022

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