Our Department Manager, Sandy Staley, has been named the 2014 University Managers Association (UMA) Manager of the Year. She was recently honored at the UMA’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Congratulations, Sandy!
In recognition of his teaching achievements, Matt Kotzen has been named Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Associate Professor beginning Fall 2014. Congratulations, Matt!
Professor L.A. Paul has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2014 for “Transformative Experience and Decision Making” and is co-PI for The Experience Project funded ($4.8M) by the Templeton Foundation.
Undergraduate philosophy major, Margaret (Maggie) Owens, presented her paper entitled Recollection and Cognitive Science at the Second Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Philosophy Confernece on April 12, 2014 at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). It was named best paper presented at the conference and is being … Read more
Professor L.A. Paul has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2014 for “Transformative Experience and Decision Making”.
On April 1, 2014, Jan Boxill was interviewed by WCHL on the second annual National High School Ethics Bowl, sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. This event will take place on April … Read more
Graduate student Jen Kling has won a Newcombe Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year!
Thomas Hofweber won fellowships from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities as well as the Templeton Foundation to pursue his project “Intellectual humility and the limits of conceptual representation.” He will be on research leave for 2014-15.
Graduate student Craig Warmke has won a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year!
Simon Blackburn’s new book, “Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love”, is reviewed in this week’s “Times Higher Education” and “The Washington Post”.
