Corine Pelluchon Joins Philosophy Department for 2006-2007
Corine Pelluchon joins us a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Research Associate in the Center for Philosophy and the History of Science for 2006-2007. Professor Pelluchon is a Teacher of Philosophy at Clermont-Ferrand, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Amiens & Paris Region.
Keller Appointed to Harvard J.K.F School of Goverment for Fall 2006
Simon Keller has been appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor in the John F. Kennedy School of Government for the fall of 2006.
Professor Krzysztof Michalski Wins the 39th Theodor Heuss Prize
The Executive Board and the Board of Trustees of the Theodor-Heuss-Stiftung have awarded the 39th Theodor Heuss Prize to Krzysztof Michalski, the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. The ceremony took place in the presence of the German Federal President Johannes Rau and former President Richard […]
Department of Philosophy’s New Office Space
The University has made substantial new office space available to the department. It is presently being renovated, and will significantly increase the space available to graduate and undergraduate philosophy students. A new departmental seminar room and library will also be created, thanks in part to gifts to the department made by alumni.
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.