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Keren Wilson wins Sawyier Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Keren Wilson has won a Sawyier Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award in Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It's for the 2017-2018 academic year, and renewable for an additional year. She'…
Kouri, Hurst, Weiss, and Snyder receive doctoral degrees
Teresa Kouri and John Hurst received their degrees in December. Jeremy Weiss and Eric Snyder (not pictured) got theirs during the summer ceremony. …
Chris Pincock and Chris Orban (Physics) promoting history and philosophy of cosmology
Our own Chris Pincock, along with Chris Orban (Physics), are involved in a public outreach project on the history and philosophy of cosmology. They have an event coming up at Strongwater Food and…
Professor Jorati wins Sanders prize
Professor Julia Jorati has won the 2016 Marc Sanders Prize for the best paper in Early Modern Philosophy, for her paper "Leibniz’s Ontology of Force.” Her paper will be published in Oxford Studies…
Abe Roth's paper discussed at the PEA Soup blog
Abe Roth's paper "Intention, Expectation, and Promissory Obligation" in the current issue of Ethics is the subject of discussion at the Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia blog (PEA Soup).
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…
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…
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…