Graduate Student Cansu Hepcaglayan Selected as Outstanding Teaching Fellow of the Year
The Department is pleased to announce that graduate student Cansu Hepcaglayan has been chosen for the award of Outstanding Teaching Fellow for the 2021-2022 Academic Year! Cansu was selected for this distinction for her extraordinary work in upholding the high standards of education in philosophy the Department offers and consistently contributing to our teaching mission. […]
Graduate Student Casey Grippo to Present at 2023 Eastern APA
The Department wishes congratulations to graduate student Casey Grippo on their paper’s acceptance into the 2023 American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division Meeting. Casey will present a paper titled, “The Relationship Between Disease and Symptoms” at the meeting held next January in Montreal. Congratulations, Casey!
Graduate Student Joel Van Fossen Presents Paper at North American Nietzsche Society Conference, Receives NANS Graduate Student Prize
The Department would like to congratulate graduate student Joel Van Fossen on his recent achievements: Joel presented his paper, “Love in the Deepest Sense,” at the 2022 North American Nietzsche Society Conference, and was selected for the 2022 Graduate Student Prize at the conference for his paper. The North American Nietzsche Society is a philosophical […]
Graduate Student Joel Van Fossen to Present at 2023 Eastern APA
The Department wants to wish graduate student Joel Van Fossen a warm congratulations on his acceptance into the 2023 American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division Meeting. Joel will present his paper, “Satisficing Love,” at the Eastern Division Meeting next January in Montreal. Joel is currently work on his dissertation and his areas of interests include normative […]
Graduate Student Andrew Butler to Present at 2023 Eastern APA
The Department wants to wish the newly graduated Andrew Butler a warm congratulations on his acceptance into the 2023 American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division Meeting. Andrew will present his paper, “Essence and Hyperintensional Knowledge in Husserl’s Method of Free Variation,” at the meeting to be held next January in Montreal. Congratulations, Andrew!
Chair Sally Sedgwick to Publish Book with Oxford University Press
The Department would like to wish warm congratulations to Professor & Dept Chair Sally Sedgwick on announcing that Oxford University Press will publish her next monograph. The book, Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit, is forthcoming. Despite its having yet to arrive in publication, the book has already been added to reading lists […]
Chair Sally Sedgwick Featured on BBC’s In Our Time, Talks Hegel & History
The Department is proud to share that Professor and Chair Sally Sedgwick was featured this week as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time! Professor Sedgwick was featured as a guest on the episode “Hegel’s Philosophy of History,” alongside Robert Stern (prof. of philosophy at Sheffield University), Stephen Houlgate (prof. of philosophy at […]
Grad Student Marie Le Blevennec has Article Published in European Journal of Philosophy
The Department wants to wish a big congratulations to Marie Kerguelen Le Blevennec on her recent achievement: an article she wrote was published in the European Journal of Philosophy! Marie’s article, “The Genealogy as a Contribution to a Natural History of Morals”, was published digitally on May 19th. Her abstract states: “Nietzsche’s readers are often […]
Alumnus Sheldon Krimsky (’70), Scholar and Friend of BU CPHS, is Remembered
The Department is sad to share that Sheldon Krimsky (’70), the Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tufts University, an alumnus of the BU Philosophy doctoral program, and a long-time friend of the BU Center for Philosophy & History of Science, passed in late April 2022. Professor Krimsky taught at Tufts for […]
Graduate Student Jordan Kokot Selected for BUCH Ph.D. Internship in the Humanities
The Department is excited to share that grad student Jordan Kokot has been selected for a BUCH Ph.D. Internship in the Humanities for Summer 2022. The Internships program, now in its fifth year, aims “at introducing PhD students in humanities fields to career opportunities at institutions beyond academia” by providing stipend-support internship positions at incredible […]