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We are pleased to announce that Michael Skiles defended his dissertation, “First Principles to Further our Understanding of What is to be Done” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D….

The Yost Prize is given annually in honor of Robert M. Yost for excellent performance in teaching.  Congratulations to our 2018-19 winners Jae Choe and Ally Peabody Smith.

We are pleased to announce that Michael Hansen defended his dissertation, “Worlds Apart: An Interpretation of Leibnizian Perceiving” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D. degree will be awarded on…

We are pleased to announce that Andrew Lavin defended his dissertation, “Normality Judgments: Structure and Content,” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D. degree will be awarded on September 13,…

The winner of the inaugural Logic and Language Prize is Gabriel Dupre for his essay “Linguistics and the Explanatory Economy.” Established in honor of Rudolf Carnap and David Kaplan, the…

We are pleased to announce that Milo Crimi is the 2018-19 winner of the Rudolf and Ina Carnap Prize for his essay entitled “The Logic of Words of Consecration.” The…

We are pleased to announce that Antti Hiltunen defended his dissertation, “Spinoza: The Human Mind as an Understanding of the Nature of its Body,” and it has been accepted. His…

We are pleased to announce that Gabriel Dupre has defended his dissertation, “Ways in the Studies of Words: The Methodology and Epistemology of Linguistic Science,” and it has been accepted….

We are pleased to announce that Eric Tracy, has filed his dissertation, “The Bounds of Thought: Prospects for a Norm-Based Metasemantics,” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D. degree was…

The Kalish Prize for Intellectual Excellence in Philosophy is awarded by the faculty of the Department of Philosophy to one or more of their most promising undergraduate students. Congratulations to…