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Our own Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer has a piece on the care exploitation of essential workers, just out on the APA blog. 

Lavender recently earned her Ph.D. and will be an instructor at…

Aly McCarthy, who completed her PhD here in 2018 with Professor Piers Turner has just accepted a permanent clinical track position at Vanderbilt! Her official title is: Assistant…

Professor Stewart Shapiro is amongst the stellar scholars newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  This is one of the most prestigious honors for scholars, scientists, and…

The Department of Philosophy at Ohio State affirms its support of the local and global protests against police brutality, systemic racism, and the killing of Black Americans.  We condemn the…

This semester Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer successfully defended her dissertation, Care Exploitation: Recognizing and Preventing a Pervasive Injustice.  Her advisor was Professor Piers Turner. …

Congratulations to Todd DeRose, who has been named one of two winners of the Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition for 2021!  (Note that past winners of the prize…

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome three current Philosophy Majors as Undergraduate Philosophy Ambassadors for 2021. Briana Anthony and Emily Erhardt are newly appointed, and they…

Richard Thomas Garner (1936-2020)

Richard (Dick) Garner, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University, passed away Christmas Eve 2020 from complications related to Covid-…

Chris Pincock wins a prestigious NEH fellowship for his book project Scientific Explanation, Inference, and Realism. Click here for more information.