Logos: December 2023

A Message from the Chair

Dear friends and alumni of the Philosophy Department: Season's Greetings! It is my great pleasure to welcome you to another edition of our newsletter, LOGOS. These are busy times for the…

Professors Tamar Rudavsky and Allan Silverman Retire

After long and distinguished careers at Ohio State, two long-standing members of the Philosophy Department will be retiring at the end of 2023.Dr. Allan Silverman came to Ohio State in 1985 after…

New Online Philosophy Speaker Series: Practical Philosophy

Starting January 2024, the Department of Philosophy will initiate a new online speaker series, “Practical Philosophy.” This series, designed for Philosophy alumni and scholars in other fields,…

Faculty search for a new O’Donnell Professor

The Philosophy Department is currently looking to hire a new senior member of faculty to fill the Steve R. and Sarah E. O’Donnell Professorship in Philosophy.This named professorship was established…

Philosophy course featured in Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) Newsletter

One of our Spring 2023 course offerings, The Philosophy of Happiness with Professor Amy Shuster, was featured in the Autumn 2024 newsletter of the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP).…

Todd DeRose Accepts a Tenure-Track Position

We are delighted to announce that Todd DeRose (PhD OSU 2023) has taken up a position as a tenure-track assistant professor at Edward Waters University in Jacksonville FL. Congratulations, Todd!

Ethan Brauer Accepts a Postdoc at the University of Oslo

Congratulations to Ethan Brauer (PhD OSU 2020), who is starting a four year postdoc at the University of Oslo as part of the project "C-FORS: Construction in the formal sciences". The project, led by…

Incoming Graduate Student Class of 2023

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to our graduate program. Charles Crumpler, Laurel Dunham, Loane Forest, Connor Griffith, and Qiwen (Emma) Zhang have a variety of…