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"Boycott for Speaker Diversity".

Scott Jaschik, "Boycott for Speaker Diversity". Inside Higher Ed, July 27, 2012.

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Selim Berker (Harvard University), "On the metaphysics of voting," Philosophy Seminar Room, 3:00-5:00 pm

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BarryFest, "a conference in honor of Barry Loewer"

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BarryFest, "a conference in honor of Barry Loewer"

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We regret to announce the passing of Professor Martha Brandt Bolton

Professor Martha Brandt Bolton passed away on October 27, 2024. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and did her undergraduate work at Ohio Wesleyan University. After briefly studying at Tulane, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of...
Paul Pietroski's co-authored paper selected by Philosopher's Annual

"Psycholinguistic Evidence for Restricted Quantification" by Tyler Knowlton (Penn), Paul Pietroski (Rutgers), Alexander Williams (Maryland), Justin Haberda (JHU), and Jeffrey Lidz (Maryland) was selected by Philosopher's Annual for 2023. The list aims...
Boxed In - Making Identities Safe for Democracy with Derrick Darby and Eduardo J Martinez

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It is with sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Alvin Goldman

(1938-2024) It is with sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Alvin Goldman, a Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University from 2002 until his retirement in 2018. Born on October 1, 1938, he died on August 4, 2024. He received his B.A...
We regret to announce the passing of Emeritus Professor Robert Bolton

(1940-2024) Professor Bolton was a renowned expert on Aristotle who taught at Rutgers for 52 years. After earning his B.A. at Princeton (including a senior thesis on Plato’s Theory of Forms, directed by Gregory Vlastos), he was a Rhodes Scholar at...
Papers by Faculty and Alum chosen for 2022 Philosopher’s Annual

A paper by Assistant Professor Jake Quilty-Dunn and a paper by 2019 Ph.D. Eddy Chen were chosen for the 2022 Philosopher’s Annual, representing the best work in the discipline that year. Quilty-Dunn’s “The Best Game in Town: The Re-emergence of the...
Undergraduate major awarded the Koury Walker First-Generation Student Summer Scholarship

Xudong Ma, a double major in philosophy and linguistics, has been selected as a recipient of the Koury Walker First-Generation Student Summer Scholarship for his research on 'Reference and Variability of Semantics' under the supervision of...
We regret to announce the passing of Emeritus Professor Frederic J. Schick

(1929-2022) Frederic Schick earned his PhD at Columbia, and taught at Rutgers for over fifty years. His areas of research were decision theory, philosophy of action, and philosophy of economics. [Further information:...

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New & Noteworthy

We regret to announce the passing of Professor Martha Brandt Bolton

Paul Pietroski's co-authored paper selected by Philosopher's Annual

Boxed In - Making Identities Safe for Democracy with Derrick Darby and Eduardo J Martinez

It is with sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Alvin Goldman

We regret to announce the passing of Emeritus Professor Robert Bolton

Papers by Faculty and Alum chosen for 2022 Philosopher’s Annual

Undergraduate major awarded the Koury Walker First-Generation Student Summer Scholarship

We regret to announce the passing of Emeritus Professor Frederic J. Schick