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PhD student Samuel Director has won three fellowships for the upcoming year; a fellowship with CU's Center for Western Civilization, Thought, and Policy , a Humane Studies Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies, and an Adam Smith Fellowship from the Mercatus Institute at George Mason University.

PhD students Gagan Sapkota and Cristian Larroulet Philippi have been awarded Katherine Jacob Lamont Scholarships from the College of Arts and Sciences.

PhD candidate Maggie Taylor has won the 2018 Stahl Prize. The Department honors Maggie this year for her work as a community member on the Clinical Ethics Committee at Boulder Community Health (BCH), the largest regional healthcare system serving patients in Boulder. Maggie is the only member of the Committee...

Philosophy major Mattie McGarey has won the 2018-19 Morris Judd Scholarship for Philosophy Majors. Information about the scholarship can be found here .

Undergraduate Toby Bollig has won the inaugural Morris Judd Undergraduate Essay Prize for the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the values area. An earlier version of his essay, titled “Is Circumventing the Euthyphro Dilemma By Appealing to God’s Nature Problematic?” is available here .

PhD candidate Zak Kopeikin has won the 2018 Jentzsch Prize for his paper "The Moral Epistemology of Bare-Difference Methodology". See more information about the Jentzsch Prize here .

PhD student and current Department Lead GPTI Caleb Pickard has won a University-wide 2017-2018 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award.

Carol Cleland is give a series of lectures in philosophy of science, from April 29 through May 14, to the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern, Bern Switzerland.

Professor Carol Cleland is 1 of 3 external speakers invited to NASA's "Life Detection Challenge Workshop" being held at NASA-Ames (California) this week. Her talk is titled "Searching for Potential Biological Anomalies using Tentative Criteria for Life".

Department PhD graduate Dan Lowe has accepted a position with the University of Michigan starting in Fall of 2018.