Professor Paul Katsafanas Gives Talk at UMass Boston on Group Fanaticism
Last week, Professor Paul Katsafanas presented a lecture titled “Group Fanaticism and Narratives of Ressentiment” at the Applied Ethics Center of the University of Massachusetts Boston. The talk was held virtually and can be watched in its entirety on the Applied Ethics Center’s Youtube page. Congratulations, Professor!
Professor Victor Kumar co-authors Boston Globe Article
Professor Victor Kumar, along with his co-author Richmond Campbell, had an article published in the Boston Globe entitled, “Humans aren’t born selfish — just the opposite — and that’s reason for hope.” The article, appearing in the Perspectives section of the Globe’s Magazine, explores how the deep-rooted morality of humans will be a key tool […]
Graduate Student Zara Amdur awarded BUCH Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
The department wishes warm congratulations to Zara Amdur, who has been selected by the BU Center for the Humanities Executive Committee to receive a Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year! The Graduate Dissertation Fellowship will fund a semester of Zara’s dissertation research and the opportunity to meet with other Fellows in the BUCH’s […]
Philosophy Grad Students Selected for Research Assistance at BU Center for Antiracist Research
The Department is proud to celebrate two of our Ph.D. candidates, Leticia Castillo Brache and Casey Grippo, who have been selected to serve as Research Assistants for the BU Center for Anti-Racist Research. Since January 2022, Leticia and Casey have worked with Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose, a professor at the School of Law. Professor Gonzales […]
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 […]
University-Wide Virtual Career Fair
The BU Center for Career Development will be hosting their Spring 2021 University-Wide Virtual Career Fair on Friday, March 5 from 9am to 3pm. This event will be attended by employers from a wide range of institutions, and the event is open to students of all majors. You can RSVP for this event on Handshake.