Congratulations to Lucy Allais and Jenann Ismael who have both been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! The Academy was founded in 1780, during the American Revolution, by […]

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.

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.

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 […]