Department Celebrates Promotion of Four Professors to Full Professor Status
The Department is celebrating the recent promotions of Drs. Aaron Garrett, Walter Hopp, Allen Speight, and Susanne Sreedhar to the status of Full Professor here at Boston University. This recognition of their hard work in the field as philosophers, in the classroom as teachers, and in the community as outstanding members of our department is […]
Boston University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference 2022 to Cover “Sustainability & Environmental Ethics”
The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to be hosting the BU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference again this year on April 21-22, 2022. The topic for this year’s conference is Sustainability and Environmental Ethics. The two-day, in-person conference features seven graduate student presentations and a keynote address, and will also offer a roundtable with philosophers for […]
Karbank Fellowship 2022 Applications Now Available
The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce this year’s competition for Karbank Fellowships is now open for the applications of undergraduate BU students who will have taken at least two philosophy classes at BU by the end of the Spring 2022 semester. Completed applications are due Monday, April 18, 2022. The purpose of the Karbank […]
John N Findlay Visiting Professor Lydia Patton To Give Public Lecture
The BU Department of Philosophy is excited to announce that our John N Findlay Visiting Professor for Spring 2022, Lydia Patton, will be giving a public lecture next week. The lecture is titled “Making & Breaking Theories: Multimodal Frameworks in Scientific Theory Change,” and will take place on Wednesday, 2/23/2022, in STH B19 from […]
Lecturer Derek Anderson Publishes New Book
The Department would like to wish warm congratulations to our esteemed lecturer Derek Anderson for the publication of his new book, Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age: Truth in Political Struggle. Metasemantics was published earlier this month by Palgrave Macmillan, and is described thus: “This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role […]
Professor Victor Kumar Announces Publication of New Book
The Department would like to wish warm congratulations to Professor Victor Kumar for the publication of his new book, A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human. The book is co-authored with Richmond Campbell, will be published by Oxford University Press, and will be available for purchase on […]
Professor Paul Katsafanas Promoted to Full Professor
The Department of Philosophy wishes to congratulate Professor Paul Katsafanas on his promotion to Full Professor. In addition to his outstanding work as an educator and philosopher, Professor Katsafanas serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the department. “On behalf of the community,” wrote Sally Sedgwick on Professor Katsafanas’ achievement, “I wish to congratulate […]
Professor Marc Gasser-Wingate Wins Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Department would like to offer a belated congratulations to Assistant Professor of Philosophy Marc Gasser-Wingate, who was selected in May 2021 by the College of Arts & Sciences for the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Dean’s Office had this to say about our valued professor: “Since joining the Philosophy Department in 2015, Marc has distinguished […]
Professor Juliet Floyd Publishes New Book
The department wishes a warm congratulations to Professor Juliet Floyd on the publication of her book, Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics, part of the Cambridge Elements Series in the Philosophy of Mathematics. The book, published by Cambridge University Press, is described thus: “For Wittgenstein mathematics is a human activity characterizing ways of seeing conceptual possibilities and empirical […]
Professor Marc Gasser-Wingate Publishes New Book
The department wishes a warm congratulations to Professor Marc Gasser-Wingate on the publication of his first book, Aristotle’s Empiricism. The book, published by Oxford University Press and now available, is described thus: “Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from perception. But it’s not immediately clear what this view is meant to […]