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Spring 2022 Lecture Series presents,Prof. Juan Comesaña, “Revisiting the Argument from Illusion”

Friday, January 14, 2022, 02:00pm - 04:00pm

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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

Professor Schick worked on decision theory, philosophy of action, and philosophy of economics. He is the author of, among other things, Understanding Action: An Essay on Reasons (1991), Making Choices: A Recasting of Decision Theory (1997), and Ambiguity...
Undergraduate major to present at the 2023 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA

Jake Khawaja to give a Symposium at the 2023 Eastern APA "My paper Rationalizing the Principal Principle for Non-Humean Chance. The paper is about the intersection of two questions. (1) what is the right way to think about the metaphysics of objective...
Alex Guerrero and Denise Dykstra recognized for contributions to Undergraduate Education

Professor Guerrero and Denise Dykstra received the 2022 School of Arts and Sciences Award for their Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education Each year, awards for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education are given to...
Rhymes and Reasons: Hip Hop and Philosophy

Rhymes and Reasons: Hip Hop and Philosophy01:730:256 (3 credits) Core: CCDProfessor Derrick Darby, Philosophy Hip hop is great for partying but what can we learn if we study the rhymes? Chuck D—pioneer from the hip hop group Public Enemy—once said...
Alex Guerrero Awarded 2022 Lebowitz Prize

2022 Lebowitz Prize Awarded to Philosophers Cristina Lafont and Alex Guerrero The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK) are pleased to announce that Dr. Cristina Lafont, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson...
Alum Eddy Chen wins Popper Prize

Recent Ph.D. Eddy Chen, now an assistant professor at UCSD, has won the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science’s Popper Prize, for best article [Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State]...

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Spring 2022 Lecture Series presents,Prof. Juan Comesaña, “Revisiting the Argument from Illusion”

Prospective Students

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New & Noteworthy

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

Undergraduate major to present at the 2023 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA

Alex Guerrero and Denise Dykstra recognized for contributions to Undergraduate Education

Rhymes and Reasons: Hip Hop and Philosophy

Alex Guerrero Awarded 2022 Lebowitz Prize

Alum Eddy Chen wins Popper Prize

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