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August 27, 2014

New PhDs in 2014

Congratulations to our new PhDs in 2014: James McGlothlin, Michael Miller, Alison Duncan Kerr, and Michael Ferreira. For more information see our list of PhD recipients.
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August 13, 2014

Philosophers Test the Best

The Educational Testing Service (ETS) recently published figures for performance in the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) by subject area. Philosophy students scored higher than any other Arts &…
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August 5, 2014

Brian McLean Publication

Brian McLean's paper "What's So Good About Non-Existence?" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Value Inquiry. In this paper, Brian replies to Benatar's argument that it's always worse…
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July 25, 2014

Daniel Wilkenfeld awarded Berkeley Postdoc

Daniel Wilkenfeld will be Postdoctoral Scholar in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley next year. He will be part of a team of philosophers and psychologists working on an…
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July 25, 2014

Welcome to David Goldman and Nate Sharadin!

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome David Goldman and Nate Sharadin, who will be joining us in 2014-15 as Visiting Assistant Professors.David received his PhD from the University of…
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July 18, 2014

Welcome to our new Graduate Students

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to the graduate program.  Tim Berryman, Ethan Brauer, Ben Cleary, Steven Dalglish, and Evan Thomas have a variety of philosophical…
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July 10, 2014

Professor Justin D'Arms named Department Chair

Professor Justin D'Arms has accepted the position of Department Chairperson. He will take over the duties from Interim Chair William Taschek in the coming weeks. The Department looks forward to…
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July 10, 2014

Graduate Student Publication

Fifth year graduate student Teresa Kouri has published her first paper, entitled "A Reply to Heathcote's: On the Exhaustion of Mathematical Entities by Structures." In the article, Teresa shows that…
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June 24, 2014

Another successful Dubrovnik Conference

Chris Pincock and William Taschek organized and hosted the annual Dubrovnik Conference from June 9 through June 13. The theme of this year's conference was the History of Analytic Philosophy. The…