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Chris Pincock has been promoted to Full Professor and Piers Turner has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Chris Pincock works on issues in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of…

Jill Dieterle has published Just Food
Jill Dieterle (Ohio State Ph.D., 1994) has just published an anthology called Just Food: Philosophy, Justice, and Food.
Who has access, and who is denied access, to food, and why…

2015 Dubrovnik Conference on Pluralism
The annual Ohio State/Maribor/Rijeka conference was held in Dubrovnik from June 15 through June 19, organized by Stewart Shapiro. This year’s topic was pluralism in semantics and logic. We…

Christa Johnson and Brian McLean win GTA Award
Christa Johnson and Brian McLean are co-winners of the 2015 Graduate Teaching Associate Award. This is an annual award intended to recognize exceptional teaching provided by a graduate teaching…

Welcome to the New Graduate Students!
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to the graduate program. Meng-Ju (Ray) Chuang, Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer, Erin Mercurio, Daniel Olson, and Shaun Whittle…

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.…