Eight Undergrads Receive 2016 Karbank Summer Fellowships
Supported by a generous grant from BU Philosophy alumnus Steven Karbank, eight BU undergraduates studying philosophy are the recipients of Karbank Fellowships this summer. This year’s class of Fellows is pursuing a wide range of ways in which their philosophical questions connect concretely to the world—from exploring the role of emotions in musical performance in […]
Memorial Service for Professor Emeritus Abner Shimony
A memorial service celebrating the life and career of Professor Emeritus Abner Shimony will be held Thursday, December 3 at 3 pm in Marsh Chapel. All are welcome; for more information contact the Department office.
Professor Jaakko Hintikka (1929-2015)
The Department is saddened by the death of Professor Jaakko Hintikka (1929-2015). A student of G.H. von Wright’s, Professor Hintikka was a Junior Fellow at Harvard (1956-9), holding several professorial appointments at the University of Helsinki, the Academy of Finland, Florida State University and finally Boston University from 1990 until his death. The architect of […]
Professor Abner Shimony 1928-2015
Abner E. Shimony, 1928-2015 Abner Shimony, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of Physics at Boston University, died on August 8, 2015. His research transcended disciplinary boundaries and even literary genres. He made lasting contributions to inductive logic, the philosophy of C.S. Peirce, a naturalistic ‘integral’ epistemology, the quantum measurement problem, and the first experimental test […]
New CAS Dean Announced
Congratulations to Ann Cudd (Professor of Philosophy and Vice Provost, University of Kansas), who has been named Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at BU: http://www.bu.edu/today/2015/ann-cudd-dean-boston-university-college-of-arts-sciences/
New Faculty Member Arriving Fall 2015
Marc Gasser (AB, University of Chicago, 2008; PhD, Harvard, 2015) will be joining the Department as Assistant Professor of Philosophy this fall. Professor Gasser’s research interests focus particularly on Aristotle’s account of the relation between perception and our theories of knowledge.
Faculty Accolades
Walter Hopp is the recipient of this year’s CAS Gitner Family Teaching Award. Aaron Garrett has been named Editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly.
Professor Michael Martin 1932-2015
The Department is saddened by the death of Professor Emeritus Mike Martin (1932-2015), a long-standing faculty member at BU, who published widely in the philosophy of atheism and the philosophy of law and the social sciences: http://dailynous.com/category/lives-of-philosophers/
On Studying Philosophy and Pleasure
As we begin the new year, we wanted to point you to the alumni address given at the 2014 commencement by Professor Hannah Hintze. A brief excerpt is cited below, but the full speech can be downloaded here. “… What if you don’t respect the people who honor you? That might spoil all your pleasure […]
BU Philosophy Commencement 2014
BU Philosophy Department Commencement 2014 Saturday, May 17, 9am Law Auditorium 767 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 Graduating students should arrive by 8:30am. Contacts: John McCargar 617-353-2571 Laura Hubbard 617-353-2572