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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…