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James Shaw’s new book - Wittgenstein on Rules
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...
A Middle Way: Bob Batterman's Book Workshop
Workshop Details and Registration
The workshop is being held in person in 1008 Cathedral of Learning on Saturday, January 28th.
Invited speakers:
Collin...
Christine Korsgaard to Receive 2023 Rescher Medal
The University of Pittsburgh announces its award of the 2023 Nicholas Rescher Medal for Contributions to Systematic Philosophy to Christine Korsgaard, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor...
Mark Wilson’s new book - Imitation of Rigor
Mark Wilson’s new book, Imitation of Rigor: an Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy, has been ...
New book about John McDowell
Editors Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki gather influential minds to clarify and criticize John McDowell’s arguments for nonreductive naturalism....
Robert Brandom's new book - Pragmatism and Idealism: Rorty and Hegel on Reason and Representation
Robert Brandom's new book based on the prestigious Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam.
Travis McKenna's "Structure and Applied Mathematics" published in Synthese
Congratulations to Travis for paper, ‘Structure and Applied Mathematics’, being published in Synthese.
Annika Froese's Interview with APA Blog
Annika Froese is finishing her doctorate in philosophy at the University at Pittsburgh. She works on topics in the philosophy of science with a focus on explanation and understanding and currently...
Conference honoring Tom Ricketts
On September 16, 2022, an in-person conference will be held at the University of Pittsburgh to celebrate the work of Professor Thomas Ricketts on the occasion of his...
Interview with Japa Pallikkathayil
Japa Pallikkathayil was interviewed by Kieran Setiya for his podcast "Five Questions"
Mackereth and Avigad forthcoming in Review of Symbolic Logic
Tegtmeyer on 'Overcoming Epistemic Compositionalism by Appreciating Kant's Insight'
Maximilian Tegtmeyer’s paper 'Overcoming Epistemic Compositionalism by Appreciating Kant’s Insight: Skepticism, Givenness, and Mind-Independence in the Transcendental Deduction‘ has been published...
Alnica Visser's "Genericity Generalized” is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies
Visser argues that recent work on generics has given too narrow a picture of the conditions under which a property is characteristic for a kind.
Summer Philosophy Program, July 17-23
Open Doors Academy will be a week-long program designed to give a taste of graduate student life and various forms of support useful in applying to and flourishing in Ph.D. programs in Philosophy...
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