Department News Archive

Chris Lebron on the Election

A collection of philosophers’ commentaries on the 2020 US election — including one by Chris Lebron — can be found here: http://dailynous.com/2020/11/10/philosophers-2020-u-s-presidential-election/

Congratulations Justin Bledin!

The William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy congratulates Justin Bledin on his promotion to associate professor with tenure!

Chris Lebron to Chair Masters of Liberal Arts Program

Congratulations to Chris Lebron, the new Chair of the Master of Liberal Arts Program, part of JHU KSAS’ Advanced Academic Programs!

Theo Korzukhin on puzzles of rational choice

To learn about the intricate ways belief revision and choice are intertwined, check out Theo Korzukhin’s latest publication “A Dutch book for CDT thirders,” in Synthese.

Welcome Simon Brown and Ian Tully!

The Department warmly welcomes our new Postdoctoral Fellows Simon Brown and Ian Tully. Simon works on philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Ian works on ethics and philosophy of […]

Chris Lebron on Racism and Academia

Chris Lebron writes on racism as a kind of social disease in a New York Times essay. “Three major medical associations recently declared racism and police brutality public health crises,” he […]

Yitzhak Melamed on Spinoza in TLS and Le Monde

Le Monde interviews Yitzhak Melamed on Spinoza here. See also his essay “God-Intoxicated Man,” co-authored with Clare Carlisle of KCL, in the Times Literary Supplement. For information on Melamed and […]

Welcome Michelle Kosch and Theo Korzukhin

The Johns Hopkins Philosophy Department warmly welcomes Michelle Kosch and Theo Korzukhin! Michelle, a leading scholar of post-Kantian European philosophy, joins us as Professor of Philosophy. Theo specializes in philosophy […]

BDP philosophers agree: They’ve got their ‘dream jobs’

BDP philosophers agree: They’ve got their ‘dream jobs’

Bloomberg Distinguished Professors Hanna Pickard and Ian Phillips were both able to land their dream jobs at Johns Hopkins, but philosophy brought them together as a couple and academics many […]

Graduate Student Publications

Congratulations to Zach Gartenberg and Nikola Andonovski on their recent publications. Zach’s article ‘On the causal role of privation in Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysics’ is forthcoming in the European Journal of […]