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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Early this fall, when Debora Hyemin Han ’20 set out for Edinburgh, Scotland, for her Philosophy Foreign Study Program (FSP), she agreed to take 20 second-graders along. The children aren’t actually traveling with her, of course. They are tracking her journey by reading her blog posts and occasionally talking with her over Skype from their classroom at the Dothan Brook School in Hartford, Vt. Read more about the "Reach the World" program - co-founded by Dartmouth alumna a nonprofit co-founded...
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In an interview with Dartmouth News, Professor Kenny Walden talks moral genius, art, and the value of argument.
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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). Read more about her, her time at Dartmouth, and her new book in ...
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Congratulations to Professsor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy Samuel Levey, whose article, "The Paradox of Sufficient Reason" (originally published in The Philosophical Review), was selected for The Philosopher's Annual as one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2016.
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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, New Hampshire. The Department of Philosophy at Dartmouth College, in conjunction with the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth, invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship for recent Ph.D.s, ordinarily in Philosophy, to begin July 1, 2018.
Position description: The Political Economy Project (PEP) is an interdisciplinary initiative focused on normative questions at the intersection of politics, economics, and philosophy....
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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). The Sanders Book Prize is awarded to the best book in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology that engages the analytic tradition published in English in the previous five-year period. This prize is funded through the generosity of the Marc Sanders Foundation. Read more...
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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. Read more here.
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Professor Walden has won the inaugural, biennial Arthur Danto Prize for his 2016 paper "Art and Moral Revolution". The prize is a joint effort between the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics, awarded for the best paper in aesthetics, broadly construed. The prize is named in honor of Arthur Danto (1924 - 2013), a prominent philosopher of art and past President of the APA. More information can be found...
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Workshop on Philosophy of Language and Social/Political Philosophy
Sunday, July 16 2017
A workshop on issues at the intersection of philosophy of language and social/political
philosophy.This is a pre-read workshop. Everyone attending a session is expected to have read the paper
beforehand.Format for each session: 10-15 min comments, 5-10min response to comments, then Q+A.
Schedule
10:45am-12:15pm: Justin Khoo (MIT), with comments from...
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