2020-12-18
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Congratulations to Prof. Colleen Murphy, whose paper in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, "On Principled Compromise: When Does a Process of Transitional Justice Qualify as Just", was named one of the best articles in philosophy in 2020 by Oxford University Press.
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2020-11-23 - Does the US need to pursue transitional justice in the post-Trump era? https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1749294700
2020-11-04 - Dr. Jesse Fitts received a BA in philosophy (with minors in political science and mathematics) from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2007 and an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012 and 2018, respectively. Dr. Fitts mainly researches representation in language and mind and has teaching interests in logic (informal and formal), applied ethics, and the...
2020-09-23 - The National Science Foundation's Convergence Accelerator Grant has been awarded to the project "QuSTEAM: Convergent Undergraduate Education in Quantum Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics", in which Professor Kohei Kishida participates as a subject matter expert.
2020-09-23 - Congratulations to Professor Benjamin Levinstein, who has been awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the academic year 2020-2021. https://mellon.org/programs/higher-learning/new-directions-fellowships/
2020-09-23 - Professor Helga Varden has been promoted to the rank of full professor and awarded the 2020 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award for her truly exceptional contributions. She is among the only eleven recipients of this prestigious award this year. Our most heartfelt congratulations, Helga!
2020-05-28 - The annual Caton Prize for best graduate student essay has been awarded to Seungil Lee for his essay "The Passage of Time." We have also recently learned that Seungil has been awarded the Graduate College's Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Please join me in congratulating Seungil for both of these achievements.
2019-08-26 - The Department of Philosophy is sad to relay the news of the death of Professor Emeritus James Wallace. Prof. Wallace was known far and wide as an outstanding philosopher. Those of us fortunate enough to have worked with him also remember him as a wonderful colleague.
2019-08-22 - Congratulations to new faculty member Guillermo Del Pinal for his appearance in /The Philosopher's Annual/ /2018/, a list of the ten top articles from the year's philosophical literature. Prof. Del Pinal was named to the list for his “Meaning, Modulation, and Context: A Multidimensional Semantics for Truth-Conditional Pragmatics,” which appeared in /Linguistics and Philosophy/. (You can see the...
2019-05-21 - Ian Hegger, who received his PhD from Philosophy in 2015, was named Coastal Carolina Community College Educator of the Year.
2019-04-25 - Congratulations to Professor Christopher Gregory Weaver on the publication of his new book Fundamental Causation: Physics, Metaphysics, and the Deep Structure of the World, 1st Edition. https://www.routledge.com/Fundamental-...