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Neil Tennant wins Ivor Grattan-Guiness Award
Congratulations to Neil Tennant on winning the Ivor Grattan-Guiness Award for the best paper published in the 2014 issue of the journal, History and Philosophy of Logic. To read his prize…
Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellow in Washington
Rashmi Borah, a Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellow majoring in microbiology and philosophy, will be representing Ohio State undergraduate research at the 19th Annual Posters on the Hill…
OSU at UConn Pluralism Conference
Four department members participated in the conference "Truth Pluralism and Logical Pluralism" this past weekend. It was hosted at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Neil Tennant presented a…
John Hurst wins the Fink Award.
On Friday, April 10, John Hurst presented his winning paper at the Department's annual Fink award ceremony which recognizes an outstanding essay written by a graduate student in philosophy. John…
No Ifs Ands Or Buts
Eric Snyder writes: "The fourth annual Philosophy / Linguistics workshop was titled "No Ifs Ands Or Buts" (we can thank Craige Roberts for such a clever title!). As it suggests, this year's…
Bradley Griggs wins Bingham Award
On Monday, March 23rd Bradley Griggs was presented with the Department's Bingham Award, a prize awarded annually by the Department for the best philosophy essay written by an undergraduate student…
Job Market News
Congratulations to our graduate students who found success on the academic job market this year. James McGlothlin (Ph.D. 2014) has been offered a permanent appointment as Assistant Professor of…
Welcome to Tristram McPherson and Amy Shuster!
Welcome to Tristram McPherson and Amy Shuster, who will be joining the philosophy department in fall 2015. They will be moving here with their son, Finn, from their current positions at Virginia Tech…
Kevin Scharp Inaugural Lecture
Kevin Scharp presented his Inaugural Lecture, "Philosophy and Defective Concepts", at the Faculty Club on 25 February. Here is the abstract for the lecture: "From familiar concepts like tall and…