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  • Amie Thomasson | Philosophy Department
    Amie Thomasson wins APA Sanders Book Prize

    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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  • david plunkett | Philosophy Department | john m. manley huntington award for newly tenured faculty
    David Plunkett receives award for newly-tenured faculty

    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.

  • Kenneth Walden wins Arthur Danto Prize

    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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  • Language and Social/ Political Philosophy Workshop July 16

    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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  • James Moor wins Weizenbaum Award

    Professor Jim Moor has won the 2017 Joseph Weizenbaum Award from the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology. It will be awarded at this year's EthicComp and Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry Conference at DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK. More about the award here. Please join us in congratulating Jim!

  • Peter Lewis | Philosophy Department
    Peter Lewis interviewed at 3AM

    Professor Lewis, who will join our department in the fall, is interviewed about his new book Quantum Ontology at 3AM Magazine, here.

  • Talk Cancelled!

    Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will dicsuss "Three Infinities in Early Modern Philosophy" in our Sapientia Lecture series this Friday at 3:30pm in Thornton 103. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

  • Talk on Nietzsche this Friday

    Scott Jenkins (University of Kansas) will discuss "Nietzsche's Psychology of Metaphysics (or, Metaphysics as Revenge)" this Friday at 3:30 in Thornton 103. Reception to follow. Join us!

  • Philosophy Alum Becca Rothfeld Nominated for Ellie Award

    Philosophy Alum Becca Rothfeld ('14) has been nominated for a National Magazine Award (an Ellie) in the Essays and Criticism Category for her "Ladies in Waiting" which appeared in the Hedgehog Review this past fall. See the announcement here.

  • Apply for Philosophy's Edinburgh FSP

    David Plunkett will be the faculty leader for next year's program. Click here for more info on the program. Professor Plunkett's course will be:

    PHIL 50.24 Moral Epistemology

    Ethical disagreements range from the ethics of abortion to foundational questions about the basic structure of ethics (such as whether or not consequentialism is true). What is the significance of such disagreements for deciding what to believe...

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