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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…
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…
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…
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…
Lindsay Rettler wins Summer Seminar Award
Lindsay Rettler has been awarded a Summer Seminar Award in the Templeton Project on the Nature and Value of Faith.
From the website: "Winners of research awards will participate in a…
Lisa Shabel Coedits Special Issue on Kant
Lisa Shabel has co-edited a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy on Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy. The special issue includes articles by Thomas Land, Daniel Smyth, John…
London Fellowship for Declan Smithies
Declan Smithies will be a Professorial Fellow at the London Institute of Philosophy from May through July 2015. The institute was founded in 2005 as part of the University of London's School of…
Ohio State to host LSNA 2015
Ohio State will host the ninth annual conference of the Leibniz Society of North America in Columbus on October 23-25, 2015. The conference is organized by Julia Jorati and Glenn Hartz and it…