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Stewart Shapiro elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Stewart Shapiro is amongst the stellar scholars newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This is one of the most prestigious honors for scholars, scientists, and…
Congratulations to Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer on her Ph.D.
This semester Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer successfully defended her dissertation, Care Exploitation: Recognizing and Preventing a Pervasive Injustice. Her advisor was…
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…
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-…
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…
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.