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 […]
Alisa Bokulich Awarded the National Science Foundation Scholars Award
Alisa Bokulich has been awarded a National Science Foundation Scholars Award. This award supports the research for her new book project in the philosophy of physics. The aim of her project is to develop a new philosophical framework for understanding intertheoretic relations, specifically, the relationship between classical and quantum mechanics. As an interdisciplinary work that […]
Jenny Teichman (Cambridge) and Thomas Ricketts (University of Pennsylvania) as Visiting Professors for the Spring 2002, and Stephen Mulhall (Oxford) as John Findlay Visiting Professor for the Fall 2002
We were honored to have Jenny Teichman (Cambridge) and Thomas Ricketts (University of Pennsylvania) as Visiting Professors for the Spring 2002 term, and are delighted that Stephen Mulhall (Oxford) joined us as John Findlay Visiting Professor for the Fall 2002 term. During the Fall 2001 semester, David Wiggins (Oxford) joined the department as Findlay Visiting […]