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. […]

Congratulations to JHU undergrad Noël Da whose essay “Satire and the Privilege of the Underdog: Kant’s Solution to an Epistemological Challenge” won First Prize in the college section of the […]

Read about undergraduate alumnus Marc Friedman’s reflections on his time as a JHU philosophy major.

Congratulations to Chaz Firestone, who has been awarded the Joseph B. Gittler Award for scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge! More info here.

Congratulations to Shozo Kamiya for the publication of his paper “Divine teleology in Spinoza’s thought: an underexplored side of Spinoza’s philosophical journey” in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy! […]

The Department mourns the passing of George Wilson, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins from 1972 to 2000. Professor Wilson was greatly admired for his work in philosophy of action, […]

Congratulations to Jenann Ismael who has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship! Jenann continues a Department tradition, joining current colleagues Peter Achinstein, Sean Carroll, and David Velleman, and colleagues from our recent […]

Professor Firestone discusses psychology, philosophy, and “The Borderlands of Perception” on the Many Minds podcast. Listen to it here

The documentary “Spinoza: Six Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher”, featuring our colleague Yitzhak Melamed, had its US premiere last week at Lincoln Center in New York. Johns Hopkins […]

Congratulations to Avery Caulfield for the publication of his paper “Symbols and Substrate: A Methodological Approach to Computation in Cognitive Science” in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology! His paper can be […]