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Todd DeRose wins essay competition
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…
Undergraduate Philosophy Ambassadors Announced
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 join…
In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Richard Garner
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-19. He was…
NEH fellowship awarded to Professor Pincock
Chris Pincock wins a prestigious NEH fellowship for his book project Scientific Explanation, Inference, and Realism. Click here for more information.
NEH Digital Humanities Grant awarded to Professor Kissel
OSU Ph.D Andrew Kissel (Old Dominion) is the philosopher on the team that wins a NEH Digital Humanities Grant for Philosophical Thought Experiments in Virtual Reality. Click here for more information…
Prof. Turner interviewed by OSU Sustainability Institute
Piers Turner talks about sustainability ethics with the OSU Sustainability Institute. Read the interview here.
Congratulations to Professor Shapiro
Stewart Shapiro, whose article “Actual and Potential Infinity” in Noûs (coauthored with Øystein Linnebo) has made it in to the Philosopher's Annual. More information here.
Congratulations to Evan Thomas on earning his Ph.D.
Evan’s dissertation is entitled, “Animals, Consciousness, and Mechanism: A Study of the Beast-Machine Controversy.” His advisor is Lisa Downing; the committee includes Julia Jorati and Richard…
Congratulations to Chulmin Yoon on his Ph.D.
Congratulations to Chulmin Yoon on his Ph.D. This past summer Chulmin Yoon successfully defended his dissertation, Essays on De Jure Coreference. His co-advisors were William Taschek and…