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Gus Law receives Harper-Schmidt Fellowship

Gus Law will be taking up a four year Harper-Schmidt Fellowship at the University of Chicago. Congratulations Gus!

Pitt Alum's Coffee Company Donates to Philosophy Education

Will Misback, who received his BA in Philosophy from Pitt in 2018, has founded a coffee company that donates 20% of its profits to philosophy... View >

Barricelli Prize

Robert Brandom's "Spirit of Trust" has been awarded the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize for the year's best contribution to Romanticism studies! View >

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!

News

Bennett Prize 2021

Aaron Salomon and Aaron Segal were awarded the Bennett Prize for 2021, Salomon for his essay "Contractualism and the Question of Direction" and Segal for his essay "Gratitude and Demand". Congratulations Aaron and Aaron! LEARN MORE >

A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics

Congratulation to Bob Batterman on his forthcoming monograph: A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics. LEARN MORE >

Felipe in Philosophy Compass!

Congratulations to Felipe Pereira, whose paper `The (Un)Desirability of Immortality' is forthcoming in Philosophy Compass! LEARN MORE >

A Spirit of Trust

Congratulations to Bob Brandom on the forthcoming German translation of his (2019) ``A Spirit of Trust''. The 2019 English original won the Barricelli Prize for best Romanticism studies, and the translation is eagerly awaited from Suhrkamp Verlag in September (2021). LEARN MORE >

Innovation and Certainty

The Department welcomes the publication of Mark Wilson's "Innovation and Certainty" with Cambridge University Press as part of their Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics series. This work traces the evolution of the concepts of number and figure in response to pressures from developements in mathematics leading from the 19th century, and explores the challenges this historical evolution presents to a conception of mathematics as a repository of necessary truths. LEARN MORE >

In Memory of Professor Mike Dunn

The department laments the recent passing of distinguished alumnus Michael Dunn. Professor Dunn earned his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh under the direction of Nuel Belnap, and made important contributions to relevance logics, and to philosophical logic more broadly. LEARN MORE >