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Paul Taylor, Presidential Professor of Philosophy, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the highest honors American academics can receive. Philosophy professor Paul Taylor is among…

Robert M. Adams, Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,…

The Yost Prize is given annually in honor of Robert M. Yost for excellent performance in teaching. Congratulations to our 2022-23 winners Savannah Leon and Hannah Widmaier.

The winner of the 2022-2023 Logic and Language Prize is Torsten Odland for his essay “Fine-grained Content and Open Texture.” “Fine-Grained Content and Open Texture” by Torsten Odland uses considerations…

We are pleased to announce that Catherine Hochman is the 2022-23 winner of the Rudolf and Ina Carnap Prize for her essay entitled “Representations of Self in Perception.” “Representations of…

The Philosophy Department congratulates the Class of 2023! We celebrated our Philosophy majors, minors, and PhD graduates at our departmental reception and awards ceremony on June 17, 2023. Check out…

We are pleased to announce that Jenny Yi-Chen Wu has published the paper “A Defense of Impurist Permissivism” in the journal Episteme.

We are pleased to announce that Saraliza Anzaldúa defended her dissertation, “Monsters and Mestizos: Mestizaje as White Supremacy and the Monsterization of Indigeneity,” and it has been accepted. Her Ph.D….

We are delighted to announce that Professor Paul C. Taylor will officially join our faculty in July 2023 as the inaugural Presidential Professor of Philosophy. Professor Taylor works in race…

We are excited to announce that Professor Vida Yao will officially join our faculty in July 2023. Professor Yao works in ethics, moral philosophy, and moral psychology. She has written…