Professor Walter Hopp awarded Tenure and Promotion
This past spring, Professor Walter Hopp was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Philosophy. Please join us in congratulating him!
Daniel Dahlstrom Named First Silber Professor
Daniel Dahlstrom, Professor and current Chair of the Philosophy Department, has been named the University’s first John R. Silber Professor. The Silber Professorship is designated for a distinguished Boston University senior scholar in the College of Arts & Sciences. Please join us in congratulating Professor Dahlstrom. The full story is in today’s issue of BU […]
Alumnus Jack Weinstein Brings Philosophy to the People
Philosophy Alumnus Jack Weinstein is now hosting a radio show, Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life, airing on North Dakota’s Prairie Public Radio. Guests have included economist Amartya Sen, feminist Carol Gilligan, and Charles Griswold of the B.U. Philosophy Department. Read the full story in the Spring 2011 CAS magazine.
PhD Graduate Placement Record of 85% Since 2005
Since May 2005, 45% of our graduating PhD students have obtained tenure-track positions at universities and colleges such as SUNY Binghamton, Colby College, Vassar College, Xavier University, and University of Texas at El Paso, while 85% of our graduates have obtained academic positions of some kind, including post-doctoral and adjunct positions. Please see https://www.bu.edu/philo/graduate-students/placement for […]
Philosophy Department receives over $211,000 in gifts
We are happy to announce that the estate of John A. Gerda, MD (GRS, ’51) recently donated $171,000 to be added to the Bertocci Scholarship Fund. Dr. Gerda earned his master’s degree in philosophy at BU, and eventually served as a staff surgeon at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital at the National Center Institute in Washington (for […]
Charles Griswold Appointed Borden Parker Bowne Professor
The Philosophy Department is delighted to announce that the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Virginia Sapiro, has named Charles Griswold to the Borden Parker Bowne Chair in the Department of Philosophy, effective September of this year. The department extends its warmest congratulations to Charles for this well-deserved honor.
Curtis Carter, 1971 Ph.D. Graduate, Elected President of the International Society for Aesthetics
In 2010, in conjuncton with the International Congress of Aesthetics Congress, Curtis Carter (GRS ’71) was elected Presdient of the International Society for Aesthetics, an organization consisting of the National Societies of scholars in Aesthetics, and individual scholars across the world.
Roger Crisp joins Department as John Findlay Visiting Professor for the 2010 Fall semester
Roger Crisp joins the Boston University Philosophy Department as a John Findlay Visiting Professor for the 2010 Fall semester. He joins us from St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford and this Fall will be teaching PH350, History of Ethics and PH850 Ethics, a seminar focusing on Henry Sidgwick’s great work The Methods of Ethics. Professor […]
Call for Papers
The Boston University Department of Philosophy invites submissions from professionals amd graduate students in philosophy, architecture, and other related disciplines. Topics may be from any point of view, including the so-called phenomenological and critical, modern and postmodern, postcritical and projective, and urban and sustainable approaches to architecture. A panel on concrete is also being organized, […]
Bokulich Named Director of Center for Philosophy and History of Science
Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences has named Alisa Bokulich director of the University’s Center for Philosophy and History of Science. Bokulich, professor of philosophy in the College’s Department of Philosophy, will succeed Alfred I. Tauber, Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine and professor of philosophy. As director, Bokulich will work to promote and expand […]