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Professor Bill Lycan was interviewed on “The State of Things,” today on WUNC (91.5 FM), to discuss the subject of consciousness (Thursday, Sept. 22, at 12:06 p.m.) Visit http://wunc.org/programs/tsot/ for more information, including archives of past programs.
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A new fund to provide undergraduates with support to attend conferences, study abroad, develop language skills, or pursue other special opportunities. Thanks to a very generous gift from James and Eleanor Lesher, we now have a new endowment to fund … Read more
We are delighted to announce that Mariska Leunissen, currently an assistant professor of philosophy at Washington University, St. Louis will be joining our faculty in July. Currently a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, she works in ancient … Read more
Two members of the department have won University-wide teaching awards this year. Alan Nelson has won the Award for Excellence in Post-baccalaureate Teaching while Geoff Sayre-McCord has won a Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
The Great Debate: Can Science Tell us Right From Wrong? HERE is a video of Simon Blackburn’s contribution to a conference on the relation between science and morality. His presentation was given on November 6th, 2010, at Arizona State University.