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The Value of Humanity

Nandi Theunissen's groundbreaking new book, "The Value of Humanity", is set to be released January 2020 from Oxford Univerity Press. View >

Larkin Philpot Receives Newcombe Fellowship!

Congratulations to Larkin Philpot for being named one of 23 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2019! View >

Marré to CUA

Congratulations to Tom Marré, who will be taking up a tenure track post at Catholic U. of America this fall!

Tomlinson to Colgate

Congratulations to Laura Tomlinson, who will be taking up a tenure track post at Colgate this fall!

Goldhaber wins teaching award!

Congratulations to Charles Goldhaber for winning an A&S Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award!

Eisenthal to CalTech/EPP

Congratulations to Josh Eisenthal, who will start in Fall 2019 as Research Assistant Professor at CalTech to join the Eistein Papers Project!

PHILIP KITCHER TO RECEIVE THE 2019 RESCHER MEDAL

Philip Kitcher will receive the Rescher Medal for Systematic Philosophy on February 7, 2020. For information, contact Thomas Berry (tberry@pitt.edu).

Shivam Patel wins SSPP Griffith Award

Congratulations to Shivam Patel for winning the Richard M. Griffith Memorial Award of the Souther Society for Philosophy and Psychology! View >

News

Robert Brandom, a Philosopher’s Philosopher

Jules Gleeson reflects on Robert Brandom's contributions to philosophy in light of the recent publication of his monumental A Spirit of Trust. LEARN MORE >

Goldhaber in Print

Congratulations to Charles Goldhaber, whose paper "Does perceptual psychology rule out disjunctivism in the theory of perception?" is forthcoming in Synthese. Pre-prints are available at his website. LEARN MORE >

Nandi Theunissen's New Book

Nandi Theunissen's book, The Value of Humanity, has just been announced by Oxford University Press and will be released later this month. In it, Nandi develops a relational account of the value of human beings. She proposes that people are of value because we are constituted in such a way that we can be good for ourselves in the sense that we are able to lead flourishing lives. Intuitively, a person matters because she matters to herself in a very particular sort of way; to appropriate a phrase, she is a being for whom her life can be an issue. LEARN MORE >

Jack Samuel's paper provisionally forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Jack presented "The Sociality of Agency" at the New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility November 14th, and the paper is promised to the 7th Oxford Studies volume, to appear mid-2021. See his research page for more information. LEARN MORE >

Graduate Conference Submissions

The department welcomes submissions for this spring's Pitt/CMU Graduate Student Conference with the theme: Decisions and Transformative Experiences (see the link below to apply). The conference takes place March 21-22, 2020, with Laurie Paul (Yale), Colin Allen (HPS), and Teddy Seidenfeld (CMU) as keynote speakers. LEARN MORE >

New Website for the Feminist Philosophy Reading Group

The feminist philosophy reading group has a new website! The website is regularly updated with the readings for the group and local events in feminist philosophy. LEARN MORE >