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