The Department mourns the passing of our distinguished alumnus Tom Beauchamp. Information about Tom and his career can be found in the Washington Post obituary.
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In the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy, students are provided a broad and analytically rigorous philosophical education, with particular areas of strength in philosophy of mind and language, the history of philosophy, philosophy of science, moral psychology, metaphysics, and epistemology.
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Department News
In memoriam: Tom Beauchamp
Kraus’ Kant’s Ideas of Reason free to download (plus: video abstract)
Congratulations to Katharina Kraus, whose Cambridge Element Kant’s Ideas of Reason is now published online and free to download here for the next two weeks. You can view her video abstract here.
JHU in The Philosophical Gourmet Report
The department placed 16th in the newly released 2024-2025 ranking of PhD programs in philosophy. That’s a tremendous leap of 24 slots since Bill Miller’s transformative gift enabled our on-going expansion. […]