It is our pleasure to announce that Aliosha Barranco Lopez, Alex Campbell, Joseph Porter, and Matthew Hernandez have been selected as Maynard Adams Fellows for the Public Humanities! They will be engaged in a seminar with Philip Kitcher in spring 2019. Congratulations, all!
Finnur Dellsen has been awarded the Lauener Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers. More details are available here. Congratulations, Finnur!
Larisa Svirsky has won a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation, Responsibility and Relationship. Congratulations, Larisa!
Congratulations to philosophy major, Wilson Sayre, for winning the 2018 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize! Please see here to read the full article.
The Philosophy Department is delighted to announce an extraordinary expendable gift of $3.75m dollars from the John William Pope Foundation to support our Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program. It will be used to support two new tenure-track appointments, two multi-year non-tenure-track professorships, a PPE … Read more
Bernard Boxill, Pardue Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in the College of Arts & Sciences, was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 18. Boxill joins 213 newly elected members from 125 institutions. Founded in 1780, the … Read more
It is our pleasure to share that Sarah Arney, an undergraduate philosophy major, has won a Tolerance Means Dialogue series scholarship! The Tolerance Means Dialogue series consists of a group of law professors and students working to create constructive dialogue about issues that … Read more
Congratulations to our newest philosophy major Phi Sigma Tau inductees, Alex Martin, Matthew Winget, Sarah Green, Ashton Hicks, Le Ho, Loc Ho, Grayson Holmes, Zhangsinong Liu, Nathaniel Putsis, Richard Wheeler, and Sarah Yaghoubi! Each year, the international philosophy honors society, Phi Sigma Tau, initiates … Read more
John Phillips has won a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for his dissertation, “Cognitive Agency and the Possibility of Rational Evaluation.” Congratulations, John!
Congratulations to our newest philosophy major Phi Beta Kappa inductees, Zaid Khatib and Kyungmin Park! Please see here for more details. Each semester, Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of The Phi Beta Kappa Society initiates exceptional undergraduates. We warmly commend our philosophy students … Read more
