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 ...
[more]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...
[more]In an interview with Dartmouth News, Professor Kenny Walden talks moral genius, art, and the value of argument.
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 ...
[more]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.