Sean Brenner | May 2, 2024 Brian Copenhaver has received the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award for 2023–24. Copenhaver, a UCLA distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy and history, was one of…
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Paul Taylor Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Published: April 26, 2024Paul Taylor, Presidential Professor of Philosophy, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the highest honors American academics can receive. Philosophy professor Paul Taylor is among…
Read MoreIn Memoriam: Robert Adams
Published: April 26, 2024Robert M. Adams, Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,…
Read MoreCongratulations to Yost Prize Winners Savannah Leon and Hannah Widmaier
Published: March 12, 2024The Yost Prize is given annually in honor of Robert M. Yost for excellent performance in teaching. Congratulations to our 2022-23 winners Savannah Leon and Hannah Widmaier.
Read MoreTorsten Odland Awarded the 2022-2023 Logic and Language Prize
Published: November 6, 2023The winner of the 2022-2023 Logic and Language Prize is Torsten Odland for his essay “Fine-grained Content and Open Texture.” “Fine-Grained Content and Open Texture” by Torsten Odland uses considerations…
Read MoreCongratulations to 2022-23 Carnap Prize Winner Catherine Hochman
Published: November 6, 2023We are pleased to announce that Catherine Hochman is the 2022-23 winner of the Rudolf and Ina Carnap Prize for her essay entitled “Representations of Self in Perception.” “Representations of…
Read MoreCommencement 2023
Published: July 18, 2023The Philosophy Department congratulates the Class of 2023! We celebrated our Philosophy majors, minors, and PhD graduates at our departmental reception and awards ceremony on June 17, 2023. Check out…
Read MoreCongratulations to Jenny Yi-Chen Wu!
Published: July 14, 2023We are pleased to announce that Jenny Yi-Chen Wu has published the paper “A Defense of Impurist Permissivism” in the journal Episteme.
Read MoreCongratulations to Saraliza Anzaldúa!
Published: June 5, 2023We are pleased to announce that Saraliza Anzaldúa defended her dissertation, “Monsters and Mestizos: Mestizaje as White Supremacy and the Monsterization of Indigeneity,” and it has been accepted. Her Ph.D….
Read MoreWelcome Professor Taylor!
Published: April 25, 2023We are delighted to announce that Professor Paul C. Taylor will officially join our faculty in July 2023 as the inaugural Presidential Professor of Philosophy. Professor Taylor works in race…
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