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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...
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....
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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.