Department of Philosophy Announces 2023 Undergraduate Student Awards
The Department is thrilled to celebrate the recent awards granted to some of our outstanding undergraduate Philosophy students! Awards won include: Department of Philosophy Undergraduate Student Awards The College Prize for Excellence in Philosophy is awarded to a graduating undergraduate senior, selected for their extraordinary efforts in the field of philosophy and nominated by the […]
UPA Wins Giving Day Donation Challenge, Raises $5k+ for Student Activities
The Department would like to extend hearty congratulations to the Undergraduate Philosophy Association (UPA) for their spirited fundraising efforts this 2023 Giving Day, which found them lauded across campus and $5,000+ dollars richer. The UPA ended up topping the ‘Student Clubs & Organizations’ category, which netted them a bonus $1,000 on top of their already […]
Four Philosophy Students Receive 2023 BUCH Student Awards
Graduate student Federica Bocchi and Micah Trautmann and Undergraduates Aliya Mulla and Nathaniel Ceus have been selected by the BU Center for the Humanities as recipients of the 2023 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Awards, respectively. These Awards are incredibly competitive and awarded to students doing excellent work in the humanities. Congratulations Federica, Micah, Aliya, and […]
Graduate Student Leticia Castillo Brache Awarded 2023 Abner Shimony Prize
The Department is thrilled to congratulate graduate student Leticia Castillo Brache for winning the Abner Shimony Prize this year. The Abner Shimony Prize is a permanently endowed fund named for Professor Emeritus Abner Shimony that provides annual awards to one or more undergraduate or graduate students of the College of Arts & Sciences. The student […]
Graduate Student Marie Le Blevennec Receives BUCH Dissertation Fellowship
The Department would like to congratulate graduate student Marie Le Blevennec on being awarded a BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH) Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Marie’s research focuses on various ethical problems concerning the impact of new reproductive technologies on procreation, and on the resulting moral dilemmas facing prospective parents, medical […]
Graduate Student Federica Bocchi Publishes Piece in “Extinct”
The Philosophy Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Federica Bocchi on her article, titled “Are We In a Biodiversity Crisis? Paleocurves, Measurements, and Problematic Inferences”, which was published earlier this month in Extinct: the Philosophy of Palaeontology Blog. Click here for a link to the article. Federica writes the following overview of her argument: […]
Graduate Student Cansu Hepçağlayan Publishes Article in “Ethical Theory and Moral Practice”
The Philosophy Department is excited to announce that one of our PhD students, Cansu Hepçağlayan, just had an article published in the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. The article is titled “Reasons for Political Friendship.” Click here for the link to the article. The abstract is as follows: “ Scholarly curiosity about political friendship […]
Graduate Student Micah Trautmann Receives Center on Forced Displacement Fellowship
The Department would like to commend and congratulate graduate student Micah Trautmann for being awarded a year-long dissertation fellowship at BU’s Center on Forced Displacement, in association with their upcoming Mellon Sawyer Seminars on border externalization. As a research fellow, Micah will continue work on his dissertation, “Refugees and a Right to Place,” help organize […]
BU Philosophy Student Vanessa Hanger Receives Prestigious Buck Scholarship
The Department of Philosophy would like to congratulate Vanessa Hanger, a Philosophy undergrad, on receiving the prestigious Augustus Howe Buck Scholarship for 2022! The Buck Scholarship dates as far back as 1917, and is one of the highest honors awarded to undergraduate students here at BU. Vanessa is an exceptionally active member of our community, […]
Professor Paul Katsafanas, Grad Students, & Alumnus Presenting in North American Nietzsche Society Conference
The Department is pleased to share that Professor Paul Katsafanas, graduate students Joel Van Fossen and Caroline Wall, and alumnus Ian Dunkle will be presenting at the 2022 North American Nietzsche Society Conference in two weeks. The Conference will be held on October 7th and October 8th, 2022, at Brown University. You can find the […]