Mark Satta
Associate Professor
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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
- What’s behind Trump’s flurry of executive action: Four essential reads on autocrats and authoritarianism
- 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 39, 3 (2024): 510-529.
- "Moral Grandstanding and the Norms of Moral Discourse." (co-written with A.K. Flowerree). Journal of the American Philosophical Association 10, 3 (2024): 483-502.
- "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.
- "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.