The first edition of The California Undergraduate Philosophy Review is now available.  See below for links.

We are not currently accepting submissions for next year's volume.  More information will appear on this site in the fall regarding future submissions.

Contact the editors at cupr.editors at gmail.com.


The California Undergraduate Philosophy Review, Volume 1 #2

1. “Property Dualism and the Knowledge Argument: Are Qualia Really a Problem for Physicalism?”
    Ronald Planer, Rutgers Univerity
2. “Necessary Principles of Perception: A Comparison of Kant and Reichenbach”
    Lauren Davidson, University of California, Los Angeles
3. “On the Compatibility of Free Will and a Fixed Future”
    Matthew Evpak, CSU Sacramento
4. “Inside Faust’s Study”
    Michael Huguenor, University of California, Santa Cruz
5.“Death and Discourse: An Inquiry into Meaning and Disruption”
    James R. Goebel, CSU Fullerton
6.“On the Relationship of Ethics to Moral Law: The Possibility of Nonviolence in Levinas’s Ethics”
    Chris Hromas, Point Loma Nazarene University
7. “A Distinction Without a Difference? The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction and Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics”
    Brandon Clark, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

The California Undergraduate Philosophy Review, Volume 1 #1

1. “Being John Malkovich and Claims of Body Ownership”  
    Joshua McDonald
2. “Resolving Dualism: On the Intersection of Connectionist and Computational Networks”  
    Heather Balcom
3. “Different Approaches to the Study of Meaning”
    Matias Bustamante
4. “Kripke and Rigid Designation: A Descriptivist in Disguise”   
    Wesley Hansen
5. “Davidson, Natural Selection and the Principle of Charity” 
    John Clevenger, CSU Bakersfield
6. “Genetically Modified Organisms: Risks, Benefits and Moral Obligation”
    (Winner of the 2008 Ethics Center Essay Contest)
    Benjamin Koole
7. “Nussbaum on Gender Equality”
    Laila Ashaq
8. “Primary and Secondary Qualities” 
    Charles Kaijo
9. “Genealogy: Nietzsche, Deleuze and Foucault”
    Lino Molina


The California Undergraduate Philosophy Review supplants an earlier journal published by the CSUF philosophy department entitled Voicing Ideas.  This journal published the proceedings of the annual CSUF undergraduate conference of the same name, much as the first edition of the CUPR now does.  All past volumes of Voicing Ideas are available below.

Voicing Ideas, Volume 3

1.“Beauty and the Beast”
    Isaac Martin
2.“Functional Classification and Dynamical Systems Theory”
    Michael Oliver
3.“Inductivism, Hypothetico-Deductivism, Falsificationism and Kuhnian Reconciliation”
    Anthony Ferrucci
4.“Naturalized Epistemology”
    Teresa Hernandez
5. “John Rawls’s Princples of Justice”
    Christopher Storelli
6. “Rawls’s A Theory of Justice: Addressing the Criticisms of Okin and Pateman”
    Taylor Hartline
7. “Buddhist Notions of Akrasia” 
    Ryan Harbert
8.  “José Ortega y Gasset”
    Lino Molina


Voicing Ideas, Volume 2

1. “Reductionism and Epistemology”
    Michael Oliver
2. “Solving the Lottery and Gettier problems”
    Bradley Hart
3. “Rorty’s Pragmatism Undone: The Necessity of Truth to Knowledge”
    Michael Olsen
4. “A Marxist Analysis of Migrant Workers in the Central Valley”
    Hilda Lopez
5. “The Concepts of Law and Foundations of a Legal System”
    Alexandra Bellardinelli
6.“The Problem of the Grudge Informer”
    Esmeralda Santos
7.“Meno and Symposium: Knowledge vs. Correct Opinion on Virtue and Beauty”
    Joshua McDonald
8.“Futility”
    Isaac Martin


Voicing Ideas, Volume 1

1.“Moism: Misunderstood?”
    Josh McDonald
2.“The Optimal Design”
    Shellie Key
3.“Jules Coleman and Tort Law”
    Natasha Fouts
4.“The Origin of Queerness of Moral Value”
    Karen Salas
5.“Kuhn and Duhem on Scientific Inquiry”
    Kamaljeet Dhah