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Evan Woods presents Fink prize paper.
Evan Woods presented his winning paper, “Simple Constitution and the Explanatory Ambitions of Constitution Theory,” at the Department's annual Fink Award Ceremony. The Fink Award recognizes an…
Eden Lin featured on the PEA Soup blog
Eden Lin was recently a featured philosopher at the Philosophy, Ethics, & Academia blog (PEA Soup). His entry on sophisticated theories of welfare is here, along with some discussion:
Department supports meeting for Political Theory
The Political Science Department is hosting this year's meeting of the Association for Political Theory, with support from the Philosophy Department. The conference is the largest annual meeting in…
Welcome Corey Katz!
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the appointment of Corey Katz to a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Center for Ethics and Human Values. Katz will be teaching two…
Welcome to the New Graduate Students!
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome four new students to the graduate program. Andre Curtis-Trudel, Scott Harkema, Preston Lennon, and Xiang Yu have a variety of philosophical…
Eden Lin joins the Department
Eden Lin joins the Department of Philosophy as an assistant professor this fall. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton, and was most recently employed at Rutgers University at Newark. His…
Jeremy Weiss awarded Fink Prize
Jeremy Weiss was awarded the department's Fink Prize for best graduate student paper. Jeremy presented "Affect, Love and Importance" at the Fink ceremony. Honorable mention goes…
Bingham Prize Awarded to Two Undergraduates
Katelyn's paper was “Embracing Counterintuitiveness in Haslanger's View for Feminist Action", and Troy's paper was “Boghossian and Rule-Circularity.” There was a Departmental reception for the…
Graduate student publication: Teresa Kouri
Graduate Student Teresa Kouri is author of two (TWO!) articles published in December. "Restall's Proof-Theoretic Pluralism and Relevance Logic" appears in Erkenntnis, and "Anti Rem…