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Professor Adam Hosein will be recognized for the Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award at the Eleventh Annual Fall Convocation & Awards Ceremony for the success of his article “Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defense?” published in Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang (eds.) How We Fight (Oxford,...

Professor Adam Hosein has been awarded honorable mention for the American Philosophical Association’s 2017 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy, for his article “ Freedom, Sex Roles, and Anti-Discrimination Law ’, ( or read the paper at Springer Link ) Law and Philosophy 34/5 (September 2015) 485-517. Click here for more information .

Professor Rob Rupert is part of an international network of scholars whose research will be supported by a nearly one million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The project leaders are Crispin Wright and Peter Sullivan. See details here .

We are pleased to announce the Department’s Visiting Fellows for 2016-17. Professor Nina Emery (Brown, sometime in February 2017, duration TBA) Professor Julia Staffel (Washington University, 2-3 weeks in March 2017) Professor Kris McDaniel (Syracuse, 3 weeks in April 2017) Professor Peter Klein (Rutgers, 3 weeks in September/October 2017) The...

Professor Emerita Bonnie Steinbock , who retired from SUNY Albany in 2014 after a long and distinguished career as one of the leading bioethicists of her generation, will be a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Values and Social Policy this fall from September 13 – October 13. She will...

The Origins Project will be holding its inaugural workshop on origins August 15-17 in the SEEC Building on East Campus. Click here for a full schedule .

Kristin Mickelson, who graduated in 2012 after completing a dissertation under Robert Hanna's supervision on "Free Will Fundamentals: Agency, Determinism, and (In)compatibility", has taken a two-year research position in the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg, where she will be part of the...

Incoming PhD student Cherie Braden is interviewed at the APA Blog. Read the interview here .

Incoming Ph.D. student Sam Director has been awarded a scholarship by The Institute for Humane Studies . This award is for “promising students dedicated to developing, teaching, and applying the principles of a free society."

Jasmine Carter has recently been awarded two Ph.D. scholarships. One was given to her by The Institute for Humane Studies and is for “promising students dedicated to developing, teaching, and applying the principles of a free society." The other is an Adam Smith Fellowship , which is co-sponsored by the...