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Attendees at the conference

The Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science was held at Ohio State, June 22-25. Over 100 scholars registered to participate in talks held…

Incoming Graduate Students

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome four students to our graduate program. William Bosco, Yimo Liu, Alvaro Prado Velasquez, and Min Seo have a variety of philosophical interests and…

Owain Griffin

The Department of Philosophy congratulates Owain Griffin, who successfully defended his dissertation and will soon receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University.

Owain…

Professor D'Arms and his Award.

Congratulations to Justin D'Arms for being selected as a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor!

This award serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in…

Shao-An Hsu and Abraham Roth At Department Award Ceremony 2025

The Fink Prize is awarded in recognition of an outstanding graduate student essay in philosophy.

Congratulations to Shao-An Hsu, winner of this year’s Fink Award for his paper, “Rigidity…

Owain Griffin

The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that Owain Griffin has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Graduate Teaching Award!

The Graduate Teaching Award recognizes…

Bingham award

The Bingham Award is designed to recognize undergraduate excellence in Philosophy, and is awarded on the basis of a student essay written during the school year.

The Department of Philosophy…

Shoshanah Calland in front of her display table.

Shoshanah Calland, an Honors student majoring in English and Philosophy, organized the first Undergraduate Philosophy Research Symposium, held at the Ohio Union on Wednesday, April 8. Original…

Erich Jones

The Department of Philosophy congratulates Erich Jones, who successfully defended his dissertation in April and will soon receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University.

Layne Garrelts

The Department of Philosophy congratulates Layne Garrelts, who successfully defended her dissertation in April and will soon receive her Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University.

The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that our prison-based learning community—Philosophy for Humans (P4H)—has been recognized as a Program of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship…

Jacob MacDavid

The Department of Philosophy congratulates Jacob MacDavid, who successfully defended his dissertation in April and will soon receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University.

Display case outside of philosophy department

The Philosophy Club is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, marking more than a century of student involvement and intellectual life within the department. The club recently received a…

Piers Turner on In Our Time

Piers Norris Turner, Associate Professor and PPE Coordinator, recently appeared on "In Our Time," the BBC Radio 4 broadcast and podcast with a weekly audience of…

Philosophy ambassadors

The Department of Philosophy is delighted to introduce this year’s Undergraduate Philosophy Ambassadors. Each year, the department appoints ambassadors to help build community, assist…

Five graduate students

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five students to our graduate program. Christopher Caldwell, Richard Coulter, Charlette Hwang, Yuxuan Luo, and Joseph Phelan have a variety of…

Lincoln Lundgren

On April 24, Lincoln Lundgren defended his Honors thesis “Completing the Coincidence Argument against Metaethical Non-Naturalism”; a shortened version of his thesis also won the department’s…

GTA Winners

The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that Jacob MacDavid and Donny Soles have been selected as the joint recipients of this year’s Graduate Teaching Award!

The Graduate Teaching…