Posted Stevens and Woodbridge Scholarships Awarded to CLA: Department of Philosophy
Mick Hedberg was awarded the Dr. Eldon L. and Helen H. Stevens Scholarship in Philosophy ($1,000) and Brendan Caldwell was awarded the Frederick Woodbridge Scholarship in Philosophy ($1,000). These awards provide modest merit scholarships to some of our most outstanding...
Posted Faculty Member Elected as President of PSA to CLA: Department of Philosophy
Congratulations to C. Kenneth Waters, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, who has been elected President of the Philosophy of Science Association. Professor Waters will serve a two-year term (from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2014)...
Posted Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships Awarded to CLA: Department of Philosophy
William Bausman and Brian Wilson were awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2013-2014. Will's dissertation is entitled "Neutral Theory, Biased World?" (Ken Waters, adviser), and Brian Wilson's project is entitled "Divorcing Ability and Obligation" (Sarah Holtman and Roy Cook, co-advisers). Congratulations!...
Posted Undergraduates Receive Award to CLA: Department of Philosophy
Maxwell Davis (Philosophy) and Mick Hedberg (Philosophy and Political Science) have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the Alpha Chapter of the University of Minnesota. Congratulations!...
Posted Faculty Member Award to CLA: Department of Philosophy
Congratulations to Alan Love who was named Scholar of the College (2013-2015) by the College of Liberal Arts....
Posted Recent Placement of Graduate Students to CLA: Department of Philosophy
We are pleased to congratulate our former graduate student Ms. Yi Deng, Ph.D., on her recent appointment to a tenure-track job as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia. Yi Deng successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "Toward...
Posted Faculty Member Fellowship and Award to CLA: Department of Philosophy
Congratulations to Valerie Tiberius who won a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write a book on well-being and friendship, and also was given the Council of Graduate Students Outstanding Faculty Award for 2012!...
Posted Quantifying the Gender Gap to CLA: Department of Philosophy
Graduate student Molly Paxton and faculty member Valerie Tiberius, along with their collaborator Carrie Figdor, just published a paper entitled "Quantifying the Gender Gap: An Empirical Study of the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy" in Hypatia. In addition to corroborating...
Posted Undergraduate Research in Philosophy to CLA: Department of Philosophy
Interested in doing cutting-edge research in an area of philosophy? The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) makes this possible. UROP provides grants of up to $1,700 for undergraduate students either to carry out a project of the student's own design...
Posted Welcome! to PHIL 4607 - Question Blog
This blog corresponds to two aspects of the class requirements for PHIL 4607: 'Questions' and 'Question Reactions.' Please see the syllabus and additional instructions for more information (available here). 'Questions' are due by Monday evening at 9pm. Don't forget to...
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