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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, 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…
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.
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…
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.
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Fink Prize is awarded in recognition of an outstanding graduate student essay in philosophy.
Congratulations to Jake Beardsley, winner of this year’s Fink Award for his paper, …
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…
The Department of Philosophy is proud to recognize the achievements of five doctoral students who have successfully defended their dissertations and will be awarded their Ph.D's this semester.
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The Department of Philosophy congratulates Vaughn Papenhausen, who successfully defended their dissertation in April and will soon receive their Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University…
The Department of Philosophy congratulates Donald Soles Jr., who successfully defended his dissertation in April and will soon receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University.
The Department of Philosophy congratulates Dylan Flint, who successfully defended his dissertation in April and will soon receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University.
The Department of Philosophy congratulates Jason DeWitt, who successfully defended his dissertation in April and will soon receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University.
Congratulations to Lincoln Lundgren, a philosophy major, for being named a co-first place winner of the Center for Ethics and Human Values (CEHV) Award at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum!…
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Sahar Heydari Fard has accepted a residential fellowship at Harvard University’s Edmund J and Lily Safra Center for 2025-26. She will be a Civil Discourse Fellow…
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Jada Wiggleton-Little has been awarded the University’s Virginia Hull Award to support her research project “Taking Pain Dismissal Seriously.” Congratulations…
We are delighted to welcome Jeremy Fantl as the new Steve R. and Sarah E. O’Donnell Professor of Philosophy. Professor Fantl is a leading figure in contemporary epistemology. He is the author of …
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome six new students to our graduate program. Jordan Brown, Steve Chan, Robert Laurent, Liz Rozenberg, Eli Schantz, and Mingyan Yang have a variety of…
Ali Aenehzodaee has successfully defended his dissertation, "On Fictional Names, Linguistic Pretense, and Imaginative Resistance." His Advisor was Stewart Shapiro.
Ali’s dissertation…
Abe Wang has successfully defended his dissertation, "Pragmatism as a Theory of Normativity: Three Revisionary Projects." His Advisor was Robert Kraut.
Guided by the…
Zoe Ashton has successfully defended her dissertation, "A Social Epistemological Approach to Mathematical Rigor." Her advisor was Stewart Shapiro.
Zoe's dissertation concerns the…
Philosophy and Critical Thinking (PACT) summer camp, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) student organization, welcomed its seventh year of participants for…
Pranav Ambardekar successfully defended his dissertation “The Epistemology of Reflection” with Declan Smithies as his advisor. In his dissertation, Pranav argues for a moderate position on the…
Congratulations to Dr. André Curtis-Trudel! André has accepted a position as a tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. André received his…
One of our Spring 2023 course offerings, The Philosophy of Happiness with Professor Amy Shuster, was featured in the Autumn 2024 newsletter of the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP)…
Congratulations to Ethan Brauer (PhD OSU 2020), who is starting a four year postdoc at the University of Oslo as part of the project "C-FORS: Construction in the formal sciences". The project, led…
We are delighted to announce that Todd DeRose (PhD OSU 2023) has taken up a position as a tenure-track assistant professor at Edward Waters University in Jacksonville FL. Congratulations, Todd!
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to our graduate program. Charles Crumpler, Laurel Dunham, Loane Forest, Connor Griffith, and Qiwen (Emma) Zhang have a variety of…
Tyler Cook has successfully defended his dissertation, Essays on Machine Ethics. His advisor was Justin D'Arms
Tyler’s dissertation concerns some issues in machine ethics, the…
The Conversation has featured an article by CEHV's Piers Turner and Dennis Hirsch, Professor in the Moritz College of Law and Director of its Program on Data and Governance, on the topic of…
This spring two graduate students completed their Ph.D. in Philosophy.
Todd DeRose successfully defended his dissertation, "New Work for Berkeley's Theory of Divine Language" with Professor…
The Department of Philosophy partnered with the ASC Center for Career and Professional Success to develop and offer a workshop for undergraduate students in Philosophy and Philosophy, Politics and…
Professor Justin D’Arms new book, Rational Sentimentalism (co-authored with Professor Daniel Jacobson, UC Boulder), has appeared this spring from Oxford University Press! The book argues for a new…
We are delighted to announce that Jada Wiggleton-Little will be joining us in August 2024 as an assistant professor of philosophy! Jada is finishing her PhD at the University of California, San…
Keara Henry is the new Academic Advisor for the Department of Philosophy. She graduated with her BA in English and Communication Arts from Urbana University and then went to get her MFA in Visual…
Congratulations to Tamar Rudavsky for being selected as a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor!
This award serves to honor full professors within the College who have…
Congratulations to Emily Johnson--a Ohio State philosophy minor--for receiving a Beinecke scholarship! The scholarship awards $35,000 for the pursuit of graduate study in the arts, humanities and…
Congratulations to Professor Steven Brown for receiving the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching from Ohio State's Office of Academic Affairs! Recipients are recognized with a $5,000 honorarium…
Congratulations to Professor Piers Turner for being one of three faculty members across the university to receive the 2023 President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service! This…
Congratulations to Professor Lisa Shabel, who has been named a recipient of the 2022-2023 Rodica C. Botoman Award! This award honors a member of the Humanities faculty who best…
Four Undergraduate Philosophy students attended the Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy over Spring Break. Current undergraduates Ben Campbell, Cameron Green, and…
Prior to joining OSU, Ben studied Finance at Kent State University and received his BBA in Finance in 2020. He has also worked as independent contractor providing services for a software startup,…
Michelle Brown, Academic Program Coordinator in the Department of Philosophy, has been recognized by Dean David Horn for her “extraordinary efforts and contributions during the pandemic.” Former…
Briana Anthony ’22--who was a Philosophy Major and a Philosophy Ambassador while at Ohio State--has won a Fulbright Award for an English Teaching Assistantship abroad. Briana tells us that she is…
On November 1, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Sahar Heydari Fard participated in a university-wide panel discussion entitled “Your Other Midterms: A Forum on Citizenship,…
What do skiing, questioning authority, Leibniz, and falling in love have in common? Read the APA interview with Dylan Flint, a graduate student in philosophy at Ohio State, to learn more. …
We are delighted to announce that our former graduate student Dr. Lindsay Rettler (PhD 2015; Advisor Declan Smithies) has accepted a permanent position at the University of Wyoming!…
Our Department partners with the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) to increase educational opportunities at local prisons through the Philosophy for Humans learning community. This…
We are excited to celebrate Professor Stewart Shapiro's signing ceremony at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, MA on September 9, 2022. He was elected to the Academy in 2021 and…
This summer two graduate students completed their Ph.D. in Philosophy.
Scott Harkema successfully defended his dissertation, "Berkeley on the Relationship between Metaphysics and Natural…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome six new students to our graduate program. Jake Beardsley, Sebastian Broberg, Jacob Caldwell, Shao-An Hsu, Sarah Mosher, and Inchul Yum have a…
Preston Lennon has accepted a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. He recently defended his dissertation, The Phenomenal Basis of…
The Israel Science Foundation, The Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem sponsored “Content, Construction and…
Andre Curtis Trudel will be taking up a 3 year postdoc at Lingnan University, working on a project called, "The Philosophy of Contemporary and Future Science." The project, led by Professor…
The new Philosophical Gourmet report -- the leading reputational ranking of Philosophy graduate programs in the English-speaking world -- has ranked Ohio State at #25 among U.S. programs,…
Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position at Butler University specializing in contemporary social and political philosophy…
The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to announce the hire of Dr. Sahar Heydari Fard to the position of Assistant Professor, starting in autumn 2022.
Professor Heydari Fard’s expertise…
Hope Sample, who completed her Ph.D. here in 2018 with Professor Lisa Shabel, has accepted a tenure track position at Carleton College, a top liberal arts college in Minnesota. Hope reports that…
Graduate Student Jason DeWitt talks with the APA about his philosophical interests. For the full interview click here.
OSU Ph.D. Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion) is the recipient of a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. It will support her research for a book project on female logician…
The Department of Philosophy at Ohio State affirms its support of the local and global protests against police brutality, systemic racism, and the killing of Black Americans. We condemn the…
Chulmin Yoon, who received his PhD from our department in 2020, recently accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to start March 2022 at a new Korean university…
We are pleased to announce that the Philosophy for Humans learning community received support for its work from the Office of Outreach and Engagement's staff grant! Philosophy for Humans, a…
The Ohio State University Department of Philosophy has named its newly renovated seminar room in honor of two pioneering graduates of its PhD program, Dr. Marquis Lafayette Harris and Dr. Charles…
Congratulations to Steve Brown on his appointment as Associate Professor of Teaching in the Philosophy Department. Steve has taught some of our highest enrolling courses while serving…
Prof. Piers Turner was featured on the Spectrum News 1 Dear Ohio podcast with anchor Curtis Jackson, discussing ethical issues surrounding COVID vaccines and masks.
Erin Mercurio has successfully defended her dissertation, Pippi Longstocking, Captain Ahab, and Other People: A Defense of Possibilism About Fictional Objects. Her co-advisors were Ben…
Daniel Olson has successfully defended his dissertation, Three Essays on the Constitutive A Priori. His Advisor was Chris Pincock.
Daniel’s dissertation discussed the constitutive…
Our own Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer has a piece on the care exploitation of essential workers, just out on the APA blog.
Lavender recently earned her Ph.D. and will be an instructor at…
Aly McCarthy, who completed her PhD here in 2018 with Professor Piers Turner has just accepted a permanent clinical track position at Vanderbilt! Her official title is: Assistant…
Professor Stewart Shapiro is amongst the stellar scholars newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This is one of the most prestigious honors for scholars, scientists, and…
This semester Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer successfully defended her dissertation, Care Exploitation: Recognizing and Preventing a Pervasive Injustice. Her advisor was Professor…
Congratulations to Todd DeRose, who has been named one of two winners of the Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition for 2021! (Note that past winners of the prize…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome three current Philosophy Majors as Undergraduate Philosophy Ambassadors for 2021. Briana Anthony and Emily Erhardt are newly appointed, and they…
Richard Thomas Garner (1936-2020)
Richard (Dick) Garner, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University, passed away Christmas Eve 2020 from complications related to Covid-19…
Chris Pincock wins a prestigious NEH fellowship for his book project Scientific Explanation, Inference, and Realism. Click here for more information.
OSU Ph.D Andrew Kissel (Old Dominion) is the philosopher on the team that wins a NEH Digital Humanities Grant for Philosophical Thought Experiments in Virtual Reality. Click here for more…
Piers Turner talks about sustainability ethics with the OSU Sustainability Institute. Read the interview here.
Stewart Shapiro, whose article “Actual and Potential Infinity” in Noûs (coauthored with Øystein Linnebo) has made it in to the Philosopher's Annual. More information here.
Evan’s dissertation is entitled, “Animals, Consciousness, and Mechanism: A Study of the Beast-Machine Controversy.” His advisor is Lisa Downing; the committee includes Julia Jorati and Richard…
Congratulations to Chulmin Yoon on his Ph.D.
This past summer Chulmin Yoon successfully defended his dissertation, Essays on De Jure Coreference. His co-advisors were William…
The title of Steven’s dissertations is “Accepting Defeat: A Solution to Semantic Paradox with Defeasible Principles for Truth”. Stewart Shapiro was the advisor and chair of the dissertation…
Applicants to the Department’s graduate program this year are NOT required to submit GRE scores.
This year, the philosophy department received a $3500 grant from the University Institute for Teaching and Learning to support a series of teaching workshops led by graduate students and lecturers…
Early and Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Awards recognize outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching and service of early and mid-career faculty at the time of promotion…
Tristram McPherson has been awarded one of the inaugural fellowships from the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme. The fellowships offer release time to foster research and collaboration…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to the graduate program. Layne Garrelts, Owain Griffin, Erich Jones, Jesse Loi, and Jacob MacDavid have a variety of philosophical…
In case you are interested, you can download the pdf for free until June 1st here.
Congratulations, Tristram!
Ethan Brauer has just accepted a three-year Hong Kong Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lingnan University. Just this March, he successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled 'The Modal Logic of…
We are very proud of the Class of 2020 and wish all of our graduating students all the best for a productive and happy future. Please enjoy this video that the Department made in their honor.
On April 17, Ethan Brauer presented his winning paper, “The Modal Logic of Potential Infinity: Branching vs. Convergent Possibilities,” at the Department's annual Fink Award Ceremony. The Fink…
The Department of Philosophy is continuing its work online! Find our online summer classes here.
Congratulations to department graduate student Andre Curtis-Trudel, who has a forthcoming paper in The British Journal of Philosophy of Science: "Why do we need a theory of implementation?"
Congratulations to Angela Barnes, winner of the 2020 Bingham Award, for her essay, "The Moral Risk of Passing on Disabilities." Well done, Angela!
Congratulations to Ethan Brauer for the successful defense of his PhD dissertation titled 'The Modal Logic of Potential Infinity, with an Application to Free Choice Sequences'.
Department graduate student Zoe Ashton has published a new paper, “Audience role in mathematical proof development” in this month's Synthese.
Congratulations Zoe!
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Department graduate student Evan Thomas has been announced as winner of the 2020 Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (SSEMP) Graduate Student Essay Prize. Thomas will present his essay, …
Our own Nicholaos Jones (Ph.D, Ohio State 2006, now professor at University of Alabama, Huntsville) has won the annual Rogers Prize for best paper published in the British Journal for the History…
When alumnus Antonio Ranieri wants to do something, he makes it happen. Swim with sharks? No problem. Drink tea in Tangier? Check. Walk in Egypt's Valley of the Kings? Done. Next…
We are thrilled to announce that one of our majors, Henry Wu, is a 2020 recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship. In the Philosophy department, Henry focused on political philosophy, and his work at…
This week Philosophy and Political Science Major Miranda McKinney successfully defended her research thesis, entitled "An Experiment in Memory: History as a Collection of Aesthetic Judgements.” In…
On October 15, philosophy alumni from different generations and professions returned to the department to meet with students at the Gluck library. Benjamin Flowers (’09) currently serves as…
Recent OSU Philosophy PhD graduate Dr. Hope C. Sample has published a new paper, "Kant's Transcendental Idealism About Time: A Neglected Alternative" in Kant-Studien.
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The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome three current Philosophy Majors as Undergraduate Philosophy Ambassadors for the 2019-2020 Academic Year. They are Ethan Weiland, Santiago Garcia…
Prof. Declan Smithies' book, The Epistemic Role of Consciousness, has just come out! You can use the promotional code to order it at a 30% discount.
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome six new students to the graduate program. Jason DeWitt, Nathan Dowell, Dylan Flint, Lillian Perkins, Vaughn Papenhausen, and Donald Soles have a…
Over the summer, the Center for Ethics and Human Values named a new Director and Associate Director.
Piers Turner, Associate Professor of Philosophy and (by courtesy) Political Science, is…
Two recent Ohio State PhDs will be presenting papers at the Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.
Jerilyn Tinio will speak on “Descartes’s Privation Theory of Natural Change…
On April 15, the department gathered to celebrate our graduating seniors and our two Bingham Award winners for best undergraduate essay in the past academic year. These were:
Joseph Glandorf…
OSU PhD Christa Johnson, who defended her dissertation on “How to be a Nonconsequentialist: A Defense of Deontological Constraint” last spring, has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professorship…
OSU graduate student Giorgio Sbardolini has accepted a postdoctoral researcher position (renewable to 3 years) at the University of Amsterdam. The position is associated with Dr. L. Incurvati's…
OSU philosophy PhD candidate Evan Woods has published a new paper “Many, but One” on the problem of the many, in Synthese.
Congratulations Evan!
Julia Jorati and Evan Thomas attended…
OSU Philosophy PhD Allison (Massof) McCarthy has accepted the 2-year Arny and Anne Porath Clinical Ethics Fellowship at the UCLA Health Ethics Center, starting this summer.
The OSU College of Arts and Sciences has posted this nice article about the fun and simulating philosophy summer camp run by OSU philosophers Prof. Julia Jorati, James Fritz, Lavender McKittrick…
Professor Eden Lin has received one of two awards for “Best Original Post” for 2018 from the leading online ethics forum, PEA Soup! His post concerning theories of well-being was called …
Ohio State Philosophy will be well represented at the…
Declan Smithies and Alex Petrov are co-organizing an interdisciplinary conference on the philosophy and psychology of visual space to be held at the Ohio State University on 15-16 February, 2019…
Ohio State Philosophy will be well represented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association next week! Three graduate students are giving papers:
Evan Thomas on …
Former OSU philosophy major (and football Buckeye) Anthony Gonzalez is profiled in the Columbus Dispatch as he becomes the new US Representative for Ohio’s 16th district:
Then…
On December 7 Jerilyn Tinio successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Bodies as Privative Causes: Descartes on the Causes of Motion”. Professors Lisa Downing and Julia Jorati served as her co…
The blog of the American Philosophical Association has posted an interview with Ohio State Professor Julia Jorati about how philosophy courses might be revised to include readings outside the…
The Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) will be honoring Ohio State Prof. Stewart Shapiro as a distinguished alumnus of its PhD program. For details please visit the…
There is a new major at Ohio State: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) ! A collaboration of our department with Political Science and Economics, the PPE…
Wednesday saw our welcome back pizza party for Philosophy majors in the department library, overseen by G.E. Moose.
If you are curious about majoring or minoring in philosophy, our director…
Giorgio Sbardolini has a new publication, “Two-Dimensional Paradox,” in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Click here to see it online!
The abstract reads:
Two…
Ohio State Philosophy Professor Tamar Rudavsky, recently named President of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, has published a new book with Oxford University Press. Her most…
Congratulations to Dr. Aly Massof, who yesterday defended her dissertation, “The Demands of Partnership: A Normative Foundation for Shared Medical Decision-Making”!
Aly’s dissertation…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to the graduate program. Pranav Ambardekar, Zoe Ashton, Seongyeon Kim, William Marsolek, and Yonghao Abe Wang have a variety of…
On June 5th, 2018, Hope Sample successfully defended her dissertation “Change in Kant.” Congrats, Dr. Sample!
The dissertation committee consisted of Lisa Shabel (advisor), Clinton Tolley,…
On June 6th, 2018 Juan Garcia successfully defended his dissertation "Leibniz on Contingency and Freedom: A Molinism Friendly Account.” Congrats, Dr. Garcia!
The dissertation committee…
This year’s Fink Award for best graduate student paper goes to Giorgio Sbardolini for his paper “Prior and Benacerraf.” The paper explores the metasemantic implications of Prior’s discussion of…
On April 16th, the department gathered to celebrate this year’s winner of the Bingham Award and our graduating seniors. This year's Bingham medal was awarded to Garrett Patterson, who presented…
Hope Sample and James Fritz are this year’s winners of the Philosophy Department’s Graduate Teaching Associate Award.
The teaching evaluation committee, chaired by Tamar Rudavsky, was…
On March 26, Christa Johnson successfully defended her dissertation "How to be a Nonconsequentialist: A Defense of Deontological Constraints.” Congrats, Dr. Johnson!
Here’s Christa’s…
Our graduate students produce and publish an impressive amount of excellent philosophical material, on topics such as moral spinelessness, fictional realism, vagueness, freedom of the will, second…
PhD candidate James Fritz was awarded a presidential fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School. Awarded competitively, the Presidential Fellowship gives fellows one year…
Many of our current graduate students (and some very recent graduates) are presenting or commenting at the three upcoming conferences of the American Philosophical Association.
Eastern…
The OSU Philosophy Department hosted the 2017 Midwest Seminar in Modern Philosophy on October 20–22. Nine external speakers presented papers on a wide range of figures and topics, sparking lively…
Professor Eden Lin has won the 2017 PEA Soup Ideas Award in Metaethics for his post “Sophisticated Theories of Welfare”.
The announcement is here.
Congratulations, Eden!
Stephen Metcalf of the Slate Culture Gabfest drew a crowd for his William Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition, entitled “Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism and American Authenticity.” An audio…
Congratulations to Tyler Cook, whose paper "Deontologists Can Be Moderate” was accepted for publication in The Journal of Value Inquiry. Here’s his abstract: "Considering the abundance of…
The Philosophy Department welcomes Stephen Metcalf, writer, critic and host of the Slate Culture Gabfest, to deliver the William Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition. Metcalf’s talk is…
This summer, three of our PhD students successfully defended their dissertations. Andrew Kissel defended "Psychological Arguments for Free Will,” Brian McLean defended “Structuring Lives and…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to the graduate program. Ali Aenehzodaee, Soyeong An, Tyler Cook, Todd DeRose, and Damon Stanley have a variety of philosophical…
Dana Howard has accepted a faculty position as Instructor in the Division of Bioethics, Department of Biomedical Education and Anatomy, in the College of Medicine. As part of her duties, she will…
The Board of Trustees met on June 8th and officially approved the Department's recommendation that Abe Roth be promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations, Abe!
Julia Jorati reports:
This June, the department hosted its first philosophy summer camp for high school students. 23 students from a wide range of local high schools participated in one of the…
Lindsey Mason (Ph.D. 2013) is now working at Ohio Dominican University as faculty services administrator.
She's in charge of all adjuncts, and teaching a class each semester. Congratulations,…
Teresa Kouri and Andrew Kissel are headed to Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia. Teresa has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious…
Nicholaos Jones, who received his PhD from our department, is being promoted to the rank of Professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Nick sends greetings and thanks to our department,…
Adam Levine, undergraduate major, had a paper accepted to a conference on The Ethics and Aesthetics of Stand Up Comedy. He presented the paper earlier in April at Bucknell University. His paper is…
Former student James McGlothlin, now an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethlehem College & Seminary has published his first book.
Kurt Metz explains a poster presentation on ethical problems in the design of self-driving cars to interested audience members at the Denman Forum on March 29. Metz and his collaborators (Brandon…
Owen King has been awarded a THREE year postdoc at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. He reports:
I'll be examining ethical issues regarding organizations' collection and…
Keren Wilson has won a Sawyier Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award in Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It's for the 2017-2018 academic year, and renewable for an additional year. She…
Teresa Kouri and John Hurst received their degrees in December. Jeremy Weiss and Eric Snyder (not pictured) got theirs during the summer ceremony. Congratulations to all!…
Our own Chris Pincock, along with Chris Orban (Physics), are involved in a public outreach project on the history and philosophy of cosmology. They have an event coming up at Strongwater Food and…
Professor Julia Jorati has won the 2016 Marc Sanders Prize for the best paper in Early Modern Philosophy, for her paper "Leibniz’s Ontology of Force.” Her paper will be published in Oxford Studies…
Abe Roth's paper "Intention, Expectation, and Promissory Obligation" in the current issue of Ethics is the subject of discussion at the Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia blog (PEA Soup).
Evan Woods presented his winning paper, “Simple Constitution and the Explanatory Ambitions of Constitution Theory,” at the Department's annual Fink Award Ceremony. The Fink Award recognizes an…
Eden Lin was recently a featured philosopher at the Philosophy, Ethics, & Academia blog (PEA Soup). His entry on sophisticated theories of welfare is here, along with some discussion:
The Political Science Department is hosting this year's meeting of the Association for Political Theory, with support from the Philosophy Department. The conference is the largest annual meeting…
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the appointment of Corey Katz to a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Center for Ethics and Human Values. Katz will be teaching two…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome four new students to the graduate program. Andre Curtis-Trudel, Scott Harkema, Preston Lennon, and Xiang Yu have a variety of philosophical…
Eden Lin joins the Department of Philosophy as an assistant professor this fall. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton, and was most recently employed at Rutgers University at Newark. His…
Jeremy Weiss was awarded the department's Fink Prize for best graduate student paper. Jeremy presented "Affect, Love and Importance" at the Fink ceremony. Honorable mention goes to Andrew Kissel…
Katelyn's paper was “Embracing Counterintuitiveness in Haslanger's View for Feminist Action", and Troy's paper was “Boghossian and Rule-Circularity.” There was a Departmental reception for the…
Graduate Student Teresa Kouri is author of two (TWO!) articles published in December. "Restall's Proof-Theoretic Pluralism and Relevance Logic" appears in Erkenntnis, and "Anti Rem…
Graduate Student Giorgio Sbardolini is co-author of "Proof Analysis of Lewis Counterfactuals", just published in the Journal of Symbolic Logic, a top journal for philosophical logic.
Lisa Shabel has received a Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. Only five such awards were given out to faculty across the twenty one units of the Arts and Humanities. She found…
Glenn Hartz was honored for serving as the editor of the Leibniz Review for 25 years, since its inception. The conference was held at Ohio State this weekend. Thanks to Julia Jorati for organizing…
Congratulations to Declan Smithies, who just received a research award from the Templeton Project, New Directions in the Study of Mind based in the University of Cambridge. The award will support…
Chris Pincock has been promoted to Full Professor and Piers Turner has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Chris Pincock works on issues in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of…
Jill Dieterle (Ohio State Ph.D., 1994) has just published an anthology called Just Food: Philosophy, Justice, and Food.
Who has access, and who is denied access, to food, and why?…
The annual Ohio State/Maribor/Rijeka conference was held in Dubrovnik from June 15 through June 19, organized by Stewart Shapiro. This year’s topic was pluralism in semantics and logic. We had a…
Christa Johnson and Brian McLean are co-winners of the 2015 Graduate Teaching Associate Award. This is an annual award intended to recognize exceptional teaching provided by a graduate teaching…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to the graduate program. Meng-Ju (Ray) Chuang, Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer, Erin Mercurio, Daniel Olson, and Shaun Whittle have a…
Congratulations to Neil Tennant on winning the Ivor Grattan-Guiness Award for the best paper published in the 2014 issue of the journal, History and Philosophy of Logic. To read his prize…
Rashmi Borah, a Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellow majoring in microbiology and philosophy, will be representing Ohio State undergraduate research at the 19th Annual Posters on the Hill event in…
Four department members participated in the conference "Truth Pluralism and Logical Pluralism" this past weekend. It was hosted at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Neil Tennant presented a…
On Friday, April 10, John Hurst presented his winning paper at the Department's annual Fink award ceremony which recognizes an outstanding essay written by a graduate student in philosophy. John…
Eric Snyder writes: "The fourth annual Philosophy / Linguistics workshop was titled "No Ifs Ands Or Buts" (we can thank Craige Roberts for such a clever title!). As it suggests, this year…
On Monday, March 23rd Bradley Griggs was presented with the Department's Bingham Award, a prize awarded annually by the Department for the best philosophy essay written by an…
Congratulations to our graduate students who found success on the academic job market this year.
James McGlothlin (Ph.D. 2014) has been offered a permanent appointment as Assistant Professor…
Welcome to Tristram McPherson and Amy Shuster, who will be joining the philosophy department in fall 2015. They will be moving here with their son, Finn, from their current positions at Virginia…
Kevin Scharp presented his Inaugural Lecture, "Philosophy and Defective Concepts", at the Faculty Club on 25 February.
Here is the abstract for the lecture: "From familiar concepts like tall…
Lindsay Rettler has been awarded a Summer Seminar Award in the Templeton Project on the Nature and Value of Faith.
From the website: "Winners of research awards will participate in a…
Lisa Shabel has co-edited a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy on Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy. The special issue includes articles by Thomas Land, Daniel…
Declan Smithies will be a Professorial Fellow at the London Institute of Philosophy from May through July 2015. The institute was founded in 2005 as part of the University of London's School of…
Ohio State will host the ninth annual conference of the Leibniz Society of North America in Columbus on October 23-25, 2015. The conference is organized by Julia Jorati and Glenn Hartz and it…
Congratulations to Daniel Pearlberg on the occasion of his first publication! Daniel has co-authored a paper with Tim Schroeder, "Reasons, Causes, and the Extended Mind Hypothesis", which has been…
A number of our graduate students and faculty are presenting at the Eastern, Central and Pacific meetings of the American Philosophical Association.
At the Eastern meeting in December,…
Six of our graduate students commented on papers at the 2014 Meeting of the Illinois Philosophical Association this weekend: Ben Cleary, Jenni Ernst, Ben Horne, Brian McLean, Hope Sample, and…
Stewart Shapiro has published a new book, Varieties of Logic (Oxford, 2014). The book is available for purchase here.
Here is the publisher's synopsis: "Logical pluralism is the…
Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson have co-edited a new collection of essays, Moral Psychology and Human Agency (Oxford University Press, 2014). The book is available for purchase here.
Carol Hay has been awarded the Gregory Kavka/UC Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy for her essay, "The Obligation to Resist Oppression". Carol received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University…
Neil Tennant's new book, Introducing Philosophy: God, Mind, World, and Logic, is now available for preorder here. "Written for first- and second-year undergraduates, Introducing…
Congratulations to Timothy Schroeder on his promotion to Full Professor! With Nomy Arplay, Tim has recently co-authored a paper, "Deliberation and Acting for Reasons," which was published in
Congratulations to Kevin Scharp on his promotion to Full Professor! Kevin's paper "Truth, the Liar, and Relativism" was published in The Philosophical Review in July 2013 and his book, …
Wesley Cray (PhD, 2012) has published "Inconstancy and Content" in dialectica (forthcoming) and "Conceptual Art, Ideas, and Ontology" in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism…
Congratulations to our new PhDs in 2014: James McGlothlin, Michael Miller, Alison Duncan Kerr, and Michael Ferreira. For more information see our list of PhD recipients.
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) recently published figures for performance in the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) by subject area. Philosophy students scored higher than any other Arts &…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome David Goldman and Nate Sharadin, who will be joining us in 2014-15 as Visiting Assistant Professors.
David received his PhD from the…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to the graduate program. Tim Berryman, Ethan Brauer, Ben Cleary, Steven Dalglish, and Evan Thomas have a variety of philosophical…
Professor Justin D'Arms has accepted the position of Department Chairperson. He will take over the duties from Interim Chair William Taschek in the coming weeks. The Department looks forward to…
On Monday, Owen King won the Department's annual Fink award which recognizes an outstanding essay written by a graduate student in philosophy. Owen presented the winning paper, entitled "Well…
On Tuesday, April 15, Graduate School Dean Patrick Osmer presented ten Graduate Associates from across the University with an annual award recognizing excellence in teaching. Owen King--an…
Kirun Sankaran and Chris Mitsch, who graduated from OSU in 2012 and 2013, respectively, have both been accepted to PhD programs in Philosophy, and will enroll in the Fall of 2014. Kirun--who has…
The Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy at Ohio State invite you to join us for an interdisciplinary workshop on the semantics of number expressions. Come talk about numbers, and talk about…
Emeritus Professor Lee B. Brown died on February 13, 2014, after a long struggle with a rare lung disease. Lee was born in Iowa, but he moved with his parents and brothers to Utah when he was nine…
Sydney Penner has joined the Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Spring semester, 2014. Sydney is a 2011 graduate of Cornell University whose research focuses on the ethics and…
Earlier this month, Professors Pincock, Shapiro and Tennant each delivered papers at a joint meeting of two Philosophy of Mathematics associations held at the University of Illinois, Urbana…
The start of Fall semester coincides with the arrival of five new faculty members: Assistant Professor Julia Jorati, Visiting Assistant Professor Brian Kim Post-Doctoral Fellow Dana Howard and…
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome eight new students to the graduate program. Jennifer Asselin, Eric De Araujo, James Fritz, Daniel Giglio, Paul Robinson, Giorgio Sbardolini, Stephen…
The Dean has named Professor William Taschek Interim Chair of the Philosophy Department. William has taken over the duties from Professor Don Hubin, who retired at the end of May, and will serve…
Don Hubin has announced his retirement, effective May 31, 2013. Don has been Chair of the Philosophy Department since 2006, and has served the University as a teacher, scholar and service leader…
The Undergraduate Philosophy Club is hosting a conference at the Ohio Union on Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21, 2013, with Professor Allan Silverman as the keynote speaker. Papers will be…
The preliminary program for the upcoming Society for Exact Philosophy Conference has been announced here. The conference, which has been organized by Stewart Shapiro and Teresa Kouri, will be held…
The Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Deparment of Philosophy presents: Spinoza: The God-Intoxicated Atheist? Mini-Conference. It will be held 10/28/2012-10/29/2012.
The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five new students to the graduate program. Mauro Corneli, Jenni Ernst, Matthew Souba, Evan Woods and Kevin Wutke have a variety of philosophical…
Matthew Verdin, an undergraduate double major in philosophy and political science, has been awarded third prize in the Humanities competition of this year's Denman Undergraduate Research Forum…
Through the generosity of Virginia Hull, a friend of the College of Arts and Humanities, the College sponsors a competition for an award intended to advance the careers of women faculty members…
The Ohio State Undergraduate Philosophy Club sponsors an annual conference. Papers written by undergraduates on any philosophical topic are welcome; entries should be roughly 10-20 pages in…
The Department of Philosophy at The Ohio State University will host the annual meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy from October 11th to 13th, 2012. The Society for Exact Philosophy is…
Tim Schroeder will spend the 2012-13 academic year at Stanford's prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). While there, he will continue his research in moral…