Charles Griswold Accepted Fellowship from the Stanford Humanities Center
Charles Griswold has accepted a Fellowship from the Stanford Humanities Center for the 2004/05 academic year to write a book tentatively entitled “Philosophy and its Discontents: on Reconciliation with Imperfection.” During May 2004, he served as Professeur invité à l’Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Tian Yu Cao Offered Joint Membership in the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Historical Studies at Princeton
Tian Yu Cao has accepted an offer, extended by the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), of a joint membership in the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Historical Studies for the academic year 2004/05. These memberships will permit him to complete his historical and conceptual study of quantum chromodynamics, which […]
Simon Keller Awarded the Center for Ethics and the Professions fellowship at Harvard University
Simon Keller has been awarded a fellowship by the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University for the 2004/05 academic year. He will write a book tentatively entitled “Examining Loves.”
Manfred Kuehn Appointed as Professor of Philosophy
We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Manfred Kuehn as Professor of Philosophy. He will join the department in September of 2004. Dr. Kuehn is widely recognized, on both sides of the Atlantic, as one of the leading scholars of Kant’s philosophy. Professor Kuehn has definitively reshaped the study of Kant’s philosophy with […]
P.J. Ivanhoe Appointed Findlay Visiting Professor for 2003-2004
P.J. Ivanhoe joined us as Findlay Visiting Professor for the 2003- 2004 academic year. He is an expert in moral philosophy and Chinese philosophy. In Fall 2003, he taught an upper level course on virtue ethics, as well as a course on Chinese philosophy. During the 2004/05 year, he joins us as Visiting Research Professor […]
Kenneth P. Winkler Will Join as Findlay Visiting Professor in Spring 2005
We are also pleased to note that Kenneth P. Winkler will join the department as Findlay Visiting Professor in Spring 2005. He is Class of 1919 50th Reunion Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College and specializes in modern philosophy, particularly British thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Hugh Baxter Appointed as Professor of Philosophy
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Hugh Baxter as Professor of Philosophy. He is also Professor of Law, and has a PhD in philosophy (Yale) as well as the JD (Stanford). Professor Baxter adds another layer of strength to our philosophy of law program, as well to our Continental Philosophy offerings. His areas […]
Allen Speight was a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin during Spring of 2003
Allen Speight was a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin during Spring Semester of 2003. As a residential fellow at the Hans Arnhold Center, he pursued research on projects in Hegel and the philosophy of action, gave a Berlin Prize lecture on “Agency, Tragedy and Forgiveness: The Narrative Shape of Hegelian Ethics,” […]
Stanley Rosen was Etienne Gilson Lecturer for 2003
Stanley Rosen was Etienne Gilson Lecturer for 2003. He delivered six Lectures, in French, at the Institut Catholique (Paris). They will be published by Presses Universitaires de France.
Juliet Floyd Awarded Two Fellowships and a Fulbright Research Award
Juliet Floyd has been awarded an American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, a Wellesley College Traveling Fellowship, and a Fulbright Research Award for the 2003-2004 academic year to support her research book on Wittgenstein, Turing and Goedel, and will be spending the year in Boston, Cambridge, England and Vienna. She was also awarded the Berlin Prize […]