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March 11, 2024

Taylor Koles, 'The Semantics of Deadnames', forthcoming in Phil Studies

Longstanding philosophical debate over the semantics of proper names has yet to examine the distinctive behavior of deadnames, names that have been rejected by their former bearers. The use of...

March 7, 2024

Congrats to Shawn on his publication in The journal Diálogos


The journal Diálogos (the Journal of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Puerto Rico) has published a special issue on environmental philosophy for which Shawn Simpson was...

November 8, 2023

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 ...

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October 27, 2023

Seth Goldwasser Published in Philosophy of Science and Philosophical Psychology

Congratulations to Seth Goldwasser for his recent publications.

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October 5, 2023

Grad Student Vivian Feldblyum receives Arts & Sciences Teaching Award

Congratulations to Vivian Feldblyum for her selection to receive the 2023 Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award from the Pitt Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization! The award...

September 20, 2023

Pitt Graduate Dr. Maximillian Tegtmeyer's paper was selected as the winner of the 2022 Review of Metaphysics Dissertation Essay Contest

Maximilian Tegtmeyer’s paper “Sensibility, Understanding, and Kant’s Transcendental Deduction: From epistemic compositionalism to epistemic hylomorphism”, which is based on his dissertation, was...

August 2, 2023

Sophia Arbeiter's "Validity as a Thick Concept" published in Philosophical Studies

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....

August 1, 2023

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.

July 22, 2023

Alison Springle to University of Miami

Congratulations to Alison Springle (PhD 2022) on her appointment as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami! Springle will be moving in January 2024 from Oklahoma University,...

April 14, 2023

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...

March 8, 2023

Nandi Theunissen's and Sarah Buss' New Volume: Rethinking the Value of Humanity

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...

March 8, 2023

Nandi Theunissen to Present at Princeton Workshop on Value Theory

Join Nandi Theunissen for a workshop on value theory at Princeton's Center for Human Values: March 25, 2023. Click here for...

March 8, 2023

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!

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January 26, 2023

Seth Goldwasser’s “Standard Aberration: Cancer Biology and the Modeling Account of Normal Function” published in Biology and Philosophy

Normal functions are activities that parts of biological systems are, in some minimal sense, supposed to perform. In this paper, Goldwasser argues by example that cancer biologists regularly...

January 20, 2023

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...