Graduate Student Marie Le Blevennec Receives BUCH Dissertation Fellowship
The Department would like to congratulate graduate student Marie Le Blevennec on being awarded a BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH) Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Marie’s research focuses on various ethical problems concerning the impact of new reproductive technologies on procreation, and on the resulting moral dilemmas facing prospective parents, medical […]
Graduate Student Federica Bocchi Publishes Piece in “Extinct”
The Philosophy Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Federica Bocchi on her article, titled “Are We In a Biodiversity Crisis? Paleocurves, Measurements, and Problematic Inferences”, which was published earlier this month in Extinct: the Philosophy of Palaeontology Blog. Click here for a link to the article. Federica writes the following overview of her argument: […]
Graduate Student Cansu Hepçağlayan Publishes Article in “Ethical Theory and Moral Practice”
The Philosophy Department is excited to announce that one of our PhD students, Cansu Hepçağlayan, just had an article published in the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. The article is titled “Reasons for Political Friendship.” Click here for the link to the article. The abstract is as follows: “ Scholarly curiosity about political friendship […]
Professor Juliet Floyd Appointed Director of the BU Center for the Humanities
The department would like to wish warm congratulations to Professor Juliet Floyd, who has been appointed as the next Director of the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH), effective July 2023. The BUCH was founded through a grant from the NEH in 1981, and its steadfast mission is to provide crucially needed financial support and […]
Chair Sally Sedgwick to Have Monograph Translated into Chinese
The Department would like to wish warm congratulations to Professor and Department Chair Sally Sedgwick in announcing the translation of her book, Hegel’s Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity, into Chinese. The book, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2014, and is available for purchase. Click here for more info on the […]
Professor Rachell Powell Promoted to Full Professor
The Department of Philosophy wishes to congratulate Professor Rachell Powell on her promotion to Full Professor. This recognition of her hard work in the field as a philosopher, in the classroom as a teacher, and in the community as an outstanding member of our department is well-deserved. Congratulations, Professor!
Chair Sally Sedgwick Announces Publication of New Book
The Department would like to wish warm congratulations to Professor and Department Chair Sally Sedgwick in announcing the publication of her new book, Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit. The book will be published by Oxford University Press on May 30 2023, and is available for pre-order now. Click here for more info […]
Philosophy Undergrad Paul St. Cyr wins Karbank Fellowship, Pens Promethean Play
The Department is proud to share that one of our Karbank Fellows this year, undergraduate student Paul St. Cyr, used the support from the Karbank Fellowship to write a play, and recently put it on for the public for the first time. The play, called “False Idols and Glass Titans,” is a reimagining of the […]
Alumnus Sheldon Krimsky (’70), Scholar and Friend of BU CPHS, is Remembered
The Department is sad to share that Sheldon Krimsky (’70), the Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tufts University, an alumnus of the BU Philosophy doctoral program, and a long-time friend of the BU Center for Philosophy & History of Science, passed in late April 2022. Professor Krimsky taught at Tufts for […]
Graduate Student Zara Amdur awarded BUCH Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
The department wishes warm congratulations to Zara Amdur, who has been selected by the BU Center for the Humanities Executive Committee to receive a Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year! The Graduate Dissertation Fellowship will fund a semester of Zara’s dissertation research and the opportunity to meet with other Fellows in the BUCH’s […]