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Visiting Professor Stephanie Sheintul Accepts Tenure-Track Position at The University of Adelaide

The Philosophy Department would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Visiting Professor Stephanie Sheintul, who recently accepted a position as Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at The University of Adelaide, Australia. The Lecturer position, which is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Professorship, is set to begin in July. Congratulations, Stephanie!

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 […]