Dartmouth College is honoring Meredyth Morley, Religion and Philosophy Departments Administrator, for fifteen years of service! The Philosophy Department faculty wishes to express its extreme gratitude to Meredyth for everything she does for us every day to keep our department running smoothly.
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Colleges should require all students to take two philosophy courses, argues Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner: one on "the big questions of life" and the other on "how reflective human beings have been asking such questions for millenia."
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Philosophy Professor Amie Thomasson has just been appointed the prestigious Daniel P. Stone Professorship in Intellectual and Moral Philosophy.
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"Consent is not a one-time deal," explains Professor Susan Brison in Kasandra Brabaw's article, "Is It Possible To 'Pre-Consent' To Drunk Sex?" in Refinery29, a digital-media publication for next-generation women.
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Graduating Philosophy students were awarded the Francis W. Gramlich Philosophy Prize and the Story Philosophy Prize at the Department's Commencement Breakfast on June 10.
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Welcome to Professors Amie Thomasson and Peter Lewis, who joined the Department of Philosophy this year.
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Emily Esfahani Smith '09 - who majored in Philosophy at Dartmouth - is the author of The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness (Crown, 2017).
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Congratulations to Professsor Samuel Levey, whose article, "The Paradox of Sufficient Reason,"was selected for The Philosopher's Annual as one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2016.
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Congratulations to Professor Amie Thomasson, who has just been awarded the American Philosophical Association's 2017 Sanders Book Prize for her book, Ontology Made Easy (Oxford University Press).
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Congratulations to Associate Professor of Philosophy David Plunkett, who just received the John M. Manley Huntington Award for Newly Tenured Faculty from the Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
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