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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...
Reading Groups
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Goldhaber on Hume's Cheerfulness
Charles Goldhaber presented research on Hume's virtue of cheerfulness in a panel on "Skepticism and the Passions in Hume's Philosophy" at the Princeton-Bucharest Early Modern Seminar. His talk,...
Goldhaber on Hume’s Skepticism
Charles Goldhaber’s “The Humors in Hume's Skepticism” has been published in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy! Goldhaber argues that Hume’s prevalent medical allusions teach us both what...
Aaron Salomon's paper, "Contractualism and the Question of Direction," is forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy
Abstract: Directed duties are those duties whose violation would wrong someone in particular. Under what conditions, and in virtue of what, is a duty directed to someone? This is the Question of...
Bob Batterman's New Book - A Middle Way
Bob Batterman's new monograph examines a ubiquitous methodology in physics and the science of materials that focuses on mesoscale structures as a means for investigating complex many-body systems...
David Wallace’s new book - Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction
David Wallace’s new book introduces the core topics of philosophy of physics through three key themes – the nature of space, time, and motion; the emergence of irreversible behavior in statistical...
Philosophy Department Welcomes New Faculty
The Philosophy Department is thrilled to welcome Associate Professor Sara Magrin, Assistant Professor Thomas Pendlebury, and Associate Professor Jacob Rosen, to the faculty!
Congratulations to Seth Goldwasser
Congratulations to Seth Goldwasser, whose paper 'Memory as Skill' has won the Philosophy of Memory essay prize. Seth's article will be published by the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. ...
Congratulations to Jack Samuel
Congratulations to Jack Samuel on the selection of his dissertation chapter "Thin as a Needle, Quick as a Flash: on Murdoch on Agency and Moral Progress" as the winner of the Review of Metaphysics...
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!
Felipe in Philosophy Compass!
Congratulations to Felipe Pereira, whose paper `The (Un)Desirability of Immortality' is forthcoming in Philosophy Compass!