Logos: January 2023

A Message from the Chair

Dear friends and alumni of the Philosophy Department: Happy New Year! It is my great pleasure to welcome you to a new edition of our newsletter, LOGOS. These are vibrant times for the…

Professor Stewart Shapiro elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

We are excited to celebrate Professor Stewart Shapiro's signing ceremony at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, MA on September 9, 2022. He was elected to the Academy in 2021…

New Faculty in Philosophy: Sahar Heydari Fard

The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to announce the hire of Dr. Sahar Heydari Fard to the position of Assistant Professor, starting in autumn 2022. Professor Heydari Fard’s expertise lies at…

Briana Anthony Wins a Fulbright Award

Briana Anthony ’22--who was a Philosophy Major and a Philosophy Ambassador while at Ohio State--has won a Fulbright Award for an English Teaching Assistantship abroad. Briana tells us that she is…

The Philosophy Department Partners with the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP)

Our Department partners with the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) to increase educational opportunities at local prisons through the Philosophy for Humans learning community. This…

Lindsay Rettler Accepts a Permanent Position at the University of Wyoming

We are delighted to announce that our former graduate student Dr. Lindsay Rettler (PhD 2015; Advisor Declan Smithies) has accepted a permanent position at the University of Wyoming! Starting…

Incoming Graduate Student Class 2022

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome six new students to our graduate program. Jake Beardsley, Sebastian Broberg, Jacob Caldwell, Shao-An Hsu, Sarah Mosher, and Inchul Yum have a variety…

Dylan Flint featured on APA blog

What do skiing, questioning authority, Leibniz, and falling in love have in common? Read the APA interview with Dylan Flint, a graduate student in philosophy at Ohio State, to learn more.…