News

We are thrilled to announce that one of our majors, Henry Wu, is a 2020 recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship. In the Philosophy department, Henry focused on political philosophy, and his work at…

This week Philosophy and Political Science Major Miranda McKinney successfully defended her research thesis, entitled "An Experiment in Memory: History as a Collection of Aesthetic Judgements.” In…

Recent OSU Philosophy PhD graduate Dr. Hope C. Sample has published a new paper, "Kant's Transcendental Idealism About Time: A Neglected Alternative" in Kant-Studien.

Congratulations…

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome three current Philosophy Majors as Undergraduate Philosophy Ambassadors for the 2019-2020 Academic Year. They are Ethan Weiland, Santiago Garcia-…

Prof. Declan Smithies' book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness, has just come out! You can use the promotional code to order it at a 30% discount.

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome six new students to the graduate program. Jason DeWitt, Nathan Dowell, Dylan Flint, Lillian Perkins, Vaughn Papenhausen, and Donald Soles have a…

Over the summer, the Center for Ethics and Human Values named a new Director and Associate Director.

Piers Turner, Associate Professor of Philosophy and (by courtesy) Political Science, is…

Two recent Ohio State PhDs will be presenting papers at the Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.

Jerilyn Tinio will speak on “Descartes’s Privation Theory of Natural Change”…

On April 15, the department gathered to celebrate our graduating seniors and our two Bingham Award winners for best undergraduate essay in the past academic year. These were:

Joseph Glandorf…