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-...
2019-04-09 - Congratulations to Juan Bernal on passing the Bar exam!
2018-10-26 - Kristin Seemuth Whaley Awarded Grant for Innovations in TeachingPosted October 24, 2018 Graceland University Assistant Professor of Philosophy Kristin Seemuth Whaley, PhD, has been awarded a Grant for Innovations in Teaching by the American...
2018-06-06 - Nir Ben-Moshe has been awarded a six-month residential fellowship as part of Liberty Fund's "Adam Smith's Enlightened World" project, which is supported by the John Templeton Foundation. He will be using his time at Liberty Fund, during summer and fall of 2019, to work on his book project, entitled "Idealization and the Moral Point of View: An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons."...
2018-03-14 - The latest LAS Experts featured faculty member is Colleen Murphy. The story about her work is highlighted on the college homepage. Read the full article
2018-01-24 - Congratulations!! The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded our colleague Shelley Weinberg its 2017 prize for the best book in the history of philosophy published during the preceding year. (Consciousness in Locke was published by OUP in 2016.) Previous winners