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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 >

Endowment for Ancient Philosophy

The Department is thrilled to announce that the university has recieved a gift of $500,000 to promote scholarship in Ancient Philosophy at Pitt!

Alison Springle wins Sanders APA Prize!

Alison Springle has been awarded the selective Sanders APA Prize for her paper "On What Else Perceptual Representation Could Be"! View >

Congratulations to Raja Rosenhagen!

Dr. Rosenhagen will be taking up a post as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University this coming fall!

Welcome Nandi Theunissen!

The Philosophy Department is thrilled to welcome Associate Professor Nandi Theunissen to the faculty!

Congratulations to Suzie Love!

Dr. Love will be taking up a tenure-track post as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State this coming fall!

Fixed-Point Theories of Truth

Congratulations to Stephen Mackereth, whose solution to an open problem for theories of truth will appear in the Journal of Philosophical Logic!

News

Pitt PhD Alum Tommie Shelby, Harvard, has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Shivam Patel wins SSPP Griffith Award

Shivam Patel recently won the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Griffith Award for his paper entitled "On the Contents of Inner Speech". LEARN MORE >

20th Pitt-CMU Graduate Conference

On March 16-17th the graduate students of the University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University will be hosting the 20th Annual Pitt-CMU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, with the theme of "Uncertainty and the Limits of Knowledge". LEARN MORE >

Endowment for Ancient Philosophy

The Department is thrilled to announce that the University of Pittsburgh is the recipient of a generous anonymous donation of $500,000 to help promote scholarship in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy.

The Department Remembers Adolf Grünbaum (1923-2018)

The department is deeply saddened by the passing of Adolf Grünbaum, who spent most of his career at the University of Pittsburgh. Here we've collected some stories and remembrances of Adolf as teacher, colleague, and friend. LEARN MORE >

Springle Wins the 2019 Sanders Graduate Student Awards

Oct. 11, 2018 — The APA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Sanders Graduate Student Awards: Alison Springle (University of Pittsburgh), for "On What Else Perceptual Representation Could Be", Matt Leonard (University of Southern California), for "On the Contingency and Vagueness of Where I Am" Julius Schoenherr (University of Maryland, College Park), for "When Forgiveness Comes Easy". LEARN MORE >