The Neukom Institute at Dartmouth has just announced that Professor of Philosophy and Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values Susan Brison has been awarded a CompX Faculty Grant for her project, "Integrating Moral Reasoning into Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence."
Recent developments in information technology (IT), especially regarding the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), have prompted much public and scholarly debate...
[more]Aesthetics Workshop
This is a workshop featuring work on issues at the intersection of ethics and the philosophy of art. All are welcome to attend the free workshop, but the conference is pre-read, so please email Professor Kenny Walden by May 10, 2019, to register and receive the papers in advance.
All talks will be held in the Black Visual Arts Center, Room 301....
[more]Philosophical Methodology and Meta-Metaphysics, May 2019
Format: Talk (30-35min ideally, 45 min max), Comments (10min), and then Q+A
Friday, May 10, 2019
10:00 – 11:45 Karen Bennett (Rutgers University)
comments from Vera Flocke (New York University)
chair: Nadeem Hussain (Stanford University)
1:45-3:30 Gideon Rosen (Princeton University))...
In its Focus on Faculty Q&A series of interviews exploring what keeps Dartmouth professors busy inside—and outside—the classroom, Dartmouth News interviewed Philosophy Professor Amie Thomasson, recently named one of the 50 most influential living philosophers. Thomasson, the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, specializes in, among other topics, metaphysics and metametaphysics, which poses questions about the methods and goals of metaphysics...
[more]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. Without her, we would fall apart! (And, of course, we love her dog, Nellie, too.)
Philosophy Professor Amie Thomasson has just been appointed The Daniel P. Stone Professorship in Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. Of her prestigious appointment, Professor Thomasson comments, "I aim to make use of this appointment to help develop my recent work into a book that reconceives of philosophy along these lines: as a tool for evaluating and transforming how we think and speak about the world. This approach also works well in motivating students to care about their work in...
[more]"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. "To truly know if your partner is okay with everything you're doing, you have to talk to them throughout sex....And you can't do that if you're drunk." Read the full article here.
The following student prizes were awarded at the Department's Commencement Breakfast preceding the commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 10:
Among the 35 new teacher-scholars who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 2017-2018 are Professors of Philosophy Amie Thomasson and Peter Lewis. Professor Thomasson, who will be teaching Phil. 1.01, "The Problems of Philosophy," in the Spring 2018 Term, asks in ...
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