News & Events
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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. "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.
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The following student prizes were awarded at the Department's Commencement Breakfast preceding the commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 10:
- Francis W. Gramlich Philosophy Prize
Established in 1973 and awarded annually to the philosophy major who best exemplifies those qualities of mind and character that Professor Gramlich sought to develop in his students
- Ivan J. Carrier
- Ayanda T. Heita
- Christopher J. Kymn
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- Francis W. Gramlich Philosophy Prize
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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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