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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.

Congratulations to Evan Thomas on earning his Ph.D.
Evan’s dissertation is entitled, “Animals, Consciousness, and Mechanism: A Study of the Beast-Machine Controversy.” His advisor is Lisa Downing; the committee includes Julia Jorati and Richard…

Congratulations to Chulmin Yoon on his Ph.D.
Congratulations to Chulmin Yoon on his Ph.D.
This past summer Chulmin Yoon successfully defended his dissertation, Essays on De Jure Coreference. His co-advisors were William…

Congratulations to Steven Dalglish on his Ph.D.
The title of Steven’s dissertations is “Accepting Defeat: A Solution to Semantic Paradox with Defeasible Principles for Truth”. Stewart Shapiro was the advisor and chair of the dissertation…

Department waives GRE requirement for this year.
Applicants to the Department’s graduate program this year are NOT required to submit GRE scores.

The Philosophy Department Recieves Grant from UITL
This year, the philosophy department received a $3500 grant from the University Institute for Teaching and Learning to support a series of teaching workshops led by graduate students and lecturers…

Professor Eden Lin receives Early Career Faculty Excellence Award
Early and Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Awards recognize outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching and service of early and mid-career faculty at the time of promotion.…