Russ Shafer-Landau, Director of the Parr Center for Ethics, was recently featured in one of UNC’s Spotlight Stories. Check out the article here.

Professor L.A. Paul, together with the University of Queensland’s John Quiggin, have won an Australian Research Council grant of $475,000 AUD to study epistemically feasible choice procedures. Congratulations, Laurie!

Philosophy major Marleina Ubel has been designated as an Ambassador to speak about her experiences at the Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute. The PIKSI Ambassador Program is a new initiative made possible by a generous grant from the … Read more

Gillian Russell was recently interviewed on NPR about time (what it is and why it matters). Check out the full interview and details here.

The Oxford Philosophy Faculty has announced that Susan Wolf will be giving the John Locke Lectures in Oxford in 2020. The Locke Lectures are among the world’s most distinguished lecture series in philosophy. (A list of past Locke Lecturers is … Read more

Dialectica recently announced that their essay prize 2014 (1000 GBP, on explanation in science and philosophy) has been awarded to Marc Lange for his paper “Explanation, Existence, and Natural Properties in Mathematics – A Case Study: Desargues’ Theorem”. The paper … Read more

Jeff Sebo‘s paper, “Reconsider the Lobster”, has been posted here on the blog of the University of Colorado’s Center for Values and Social Policy.

CDC Reeve will be giving the 21st AE Taylor Lecture at the University of Edinburgh on September 18, joining an extremely distinguished list of previous Taylor Lecturers here. His title is “Human Happiness as a Political Achievement in Aristotle”.

Gillian Russell was recently featured in 3am Magazine. See here to read more.

I am delighted to inform you that John Lawless has won the 2015-2016 Dissertation Completion Fellowship and Vida Yao has won the 2015 Thomas F. Ferdinand Summer Research Fellowship from the Graduate School. Congratulations, John and Vida!