Mark Satta

Mark Satta

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

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

Education

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

News mentions

• 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

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

• PHI3270 - Foundations of Law
• PHI5800 - Special Topics in Philosophy

Winter Term 2023

• PHI5330 - Ethics, Law, and Health

Fall Term 2022

• PHI3500 - Theory of Knowledge
• PHI5570 - Philosophy of Language
• PHI7790 - Seminar in Philosophy of Language
• LIN5570 - Philosophy of Language

Winter Term 2022

• PHI3270 - Foundations of Law
• PHI5800 - Special Topics in Philosophy
• PHI7800 - Seminar in Philosophy: Special Topics