Department News Archive

Family Snapshots: Father/daughter professors share an academic home

Family Snapshots: Father/daughter professors share an academic home

Professor of Philosophy Peter Achinstein, and his daughter Sharon Achinstein, sat down with Hub at Work recently to talk about their Hopkins history and the past five years of sharing […]

Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Foundations of Mind

Ian Phillips, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Brain Sciences, together with the Foundations of Mind Group at Johns Hopkins University, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Foundations […]

Post Doctoral Fellowship in Philosophy and Mental Disorder

Hanna Pickard, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy and Mental Disorder.

Hanna Pickard, an expert in moral psychology, joins Johns Hopkins as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Her research centers on the nature of mental disorders and how society ought to respond to maladaptive behaviors like crime and addiction.

Ian Phillips, who explores the intersection of philosophy and brain science, joins Johns Hopkins as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Leading scholar examines questions of the nature of perception, as well as the scientific study of consciousness and temporal experience.

Interview with Hanna Pickard

Hanna Pickard, incoming Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Berman Institute of Bioethics, was interviewed recently by the blog Biomedical Odyssey: Life at the Johns Hopkins School […]

Two New Appointments

The Philosophy Department is very pleased to announce the appointment of two new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, Hanna Pickard and Ian Phillips, who will join us at the start of the […]

Justin Bledin in Semantics & Pragmatics

Justin Bledin’s paper “What Ifs”, co-authored with Kyle Rawlins (Cognitive Science), has been accepted for publication in Semantics and Pragmatics.

Graduate Student paper published in “Episteme”

Tammo Lossau’s paper “Three Things to do with Knowledge Ascriptions” has been published in Episteme.

Justin Bledin in Journal of Semantics

Assistant Professor Justin Bledin’s paper “Resistance & Resolution: Attentional Dynamics in Discourse” (co-authored with Kyle Rawlins of Cognitive Science) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Semantics.