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Incoming Graduate Student Class of 2024

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome six new students to our graduate program. Jordan Brown, Steve Chan, Robert Laurent, Liz Rozenberg, Eli Schantz, and Mingyan Yang have a variety of…

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Congratulations to Ali Aenehzodaee on his Ph.D.

Ali Aenehzodaee has successfully defended his dissertation, "On Fictional Names, Linguistic Pretense, and Imaginative Resistance." His Advisor was Stewart Shapiro. 

Ali’s dissertation…

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Congratulations to Abe Wang on his Ph.D.

Abe Wang has successfully defended his dissertation, "Pragmatism as a Theory of Normativity: Three Revisionary Projects." His Advisor was Robert Kraut. 

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Zoe Ashton

Congratulations to Zoe Ashton on her Ph.D.

Zoe Ashton has successfully defended her dissertation, "A Social Epistemological Approach to Mathematical Rigor."   Her advisor was Stewart Shapiro.

Zoe's dissertation concerns the…

PACT participants

PACT Offers New and Old Camp Themes to Inquisitive High School Students in 2024

Philosophy and Critical Thinking (PACT) summer camp, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) student organization, welcomed its seventh year of participants for…

Pranav Ambardekar and committee members.

Congratulations to Pranav Ambardekar on his Ph.D.

Pranav Ambardekar successfully defended his dissertation “The Epistemology of Reflection” with Declan Smithies as his advisor. In his dissertation, Pranav argues for a moderate position on the…

Andre Curtis-Trudel

André Curtis-Trudel Accepts a Tenure-Track Position

Congratulations to Dr. André Curtis-Trudel!  André has accepted a position as a tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati.  André…

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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).…

Ethan Brauer

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…