News & Announcements

The Department is very pleased to announce the appointment of Nandi Theunissen (Columbia University) as Duane L. Peterson Assistant Professor in Ethics, beginning in Fall 2012.

The following undergraduate Philosophy majors have received and accepted offers to Ph.D. programs beginning in Fall 2012: Michal De-Medonsa (Pittsburgh HPS), Zach Gartenberg (Yale), Domenica Romagni (Princeton).

Graduate Student News

Sandy Koll has had a paper accepted at Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries, a conference to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, July 11-13, 2012.

John Waterman has been accepted as one of only three graduate students to take part in the summer of 2012 in the NEH Institute in Experimental Philosophy.

Josef Simpson's paper "Perceptual Ability and Cognitive Penetration" has been accepted at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association at the University of Stirling, Scotland, July 6-8, 2012.

Derek Leben has had a paper accepted at the June 2012 Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference.

Pavle Stojanovic's paper "Skepticism and Externalism in Ancient Philosophy: The Academcis vs. the Stoics" has been accepted for presentation at the APA Eastern Division in December 2012.

For our placement record this year and in previous years, click here.

New Faculty Books

Dean Moyar, Hegel's Conscience (Oxford)

Eckart Förster, Die 25 Jahre der Philosophie (Frankfurt: Klostermann).  Also published in English: The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy (Harvard).  This book will be the subject of conferences at Humboldt University, Berlin, June 28-30, 2012, and the University of Tübingen, July 4, 2012.

Peter Achinstein, Evidence, Explanation, and Realism: Essays in Philosophy of Science (Oxford)

Yitzhak Melamed & Michael Rosenthal (eds.), Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (Cambridge)

For more books by faculty in the Department, click here

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