Highlights

  • The award recognizes the depth and range of Professor Whiting's research in philosophy, which brings ancient philosophical thought into dialogue with modern debates on the nature of friendship and personal identity.

  • Taylor Koles’s ‘The Semantics of Deadnames’ is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.

  • Daniel Webber Published in Nous and Philosophical Quarterly

    Daniel Webber’s paper “The Misapplication Dilemma” (formerly titled “Being Realistic About Rules”) is forthcoming at Nous, and his paper “Putting Wronging First” is forthcoming at Philosophical Quarterly.

  • Nicholas Rescher - In memoriam

    The department mourns the death of our friend and colleague, Nicholas Rescher. Nick taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1961 until his death this year.

  • Between 1967 and 2008 a small yet ambitious set of friends, the North American Traditions Group – including Pitt philosopher Mark Wilson – recorded many hundreds of hours of traditional music in Appalachia, the Canadian Maritimes, the Ozarks and the American West. A curated survey of their recordings is now released as a 15-volume CD collection, with extensive notes by Mark Wilson, Norm Cohen and other experts.

  • Ashley Purdy to University of Arkansas

    The department congratulates Ashley Purdy on her appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Arkansas, beginning Fall 2023.

  • The department mourns the death of our friend and colleague, David Gauthier. David taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980 until his retirement in 2001.

  • Arbeiter argues that validity is a thick concept and hence should be considered in analogy to other thick concepts such as honesty, selfishness, or justice. This helps explain ways in which logic is not merely descriptive but also normative.

  • Jennifer Nagel

    Jennifer Nagel delivers John Locke Lectures

    Pitt Philosophy alumna Jennifer Nagel (PhD 2000) gave the 2023 John Locke Lectures at Oxford University. The topic is "Recognizing knowledge: intuitive and reflective epistemology," and recordings and handouts are available here

  • Portrait of Derrick Darby

    Derrick Darby elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    The department congratulates alumnus Derrick Darby (PhD 1996) on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Daniel Webber to Stanford Ethics Center

    The department congratulates Daniel Webber on his appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS at the Center for Ethics in Society and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, beginning in Fall 2023.

  • photo of Alnica Visser

    Alnica Visser to TCU

    The department congratulates Alnica Visser on her appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Christian University in the Fall of 2023!

  • James Shaw’s new book outlining a distinctive ‘bipartite’ reading of the rule-following sections of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations has recently been published with OUP (November 2022).

  • Mark Wilson’s new book, Imitation of Rigor, provides an “alternative history” of how analytic philosophy might have developed had the diagnostic insights of its philosopher/scientist forebears (e.g. Heinrich Hertz and Ernst Mach) not been cast aside in the vain pursuit of inappropriate standards of “ersatz rigor”. (OUP, 2022)

  • To treat some human beings as less worthy of concern and respect than others is to lose sight of their humanity.  But what does this moral blindness amount to?  What are we missing when we fail to appreciate the value of humanity?  Oxford University Press has recently published a collection of essays addressing these, and related, questions.  It is co-edited by Sarah Buss and Nandi Theunissen. 

     

  • Robert Brandom's new book based on the prestigious Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam. OUP, 2023.

  • Editors Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki gather influential minds to clarify and criticize John McDowell’s arguments for nonreductive naturalism. HUP, 2023.