Congratulations to Dr. Chelsea Egbert on successfully defending her dissertation!
October 11, 2016
2016 News
October
Congratulations to Charles Taylor, former Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern, who has been named the first winner of the Berggruen Prize!
October 4, 2016 – from Berggruen Institute
August
Congratulations to Professor Rachel Zuckert on being awarded an NEH Fellowship for 2017-18 for her project entitled “The Naturalist Aesthetics of German Philosopher J. G. Herder (1744-1803).”
August 4, 2016
July
Congratulations to NU grad student Nick Leonard, on publishing his paper "Testimony, Evidence, and Interpersonal Reasons" in Philosophical Studies.
July 18, 2016
May
Congratulations to Professor Richard Kraut on being awarded a Guggenheim for his project entitled "Oysters and Experience Machines".
May 19, 2016
Congrats to Carlos Pereira Di Salvo and Mark Thomson on winning the 2015-2016 Thomas A. McCarthy for teaching excellence!
May 16, 2016
Congratulations to PhD student Amy Floweree for publishing her paper "Agency of Intention and Belief" in Synthese.
May 6, 2016
April
Congratulations to NU Philosophy PhD Seth Mayer, on his tenure-track job at Manchester University.
April 27, 2016
This year, we had two winners and one honorable mention for the First-Year Seminar Writing Awards.
April 11, 2016
- Christina Liu, "Mary Astell and the Problem of Mind and Body" (Prof. Sean Ebels Duggan, "Mind and Morals: Excluded Voices)
- Aidan Perreault, "Terrorism and the Infringement of Civil Liberty" (Prof. Axel Mueller, "What Is Democracy?")
- Megan Pan, "The Capacity for Freedom" (Prof. Baron Reed, "Persons among Other Things")
Weinberg senior Elena Barham is the first Northwestern student in 15 years to receive Carnegie fellowship.
April 7, 2016 – from The Daily Northwestern
March
Congratulations to Professor Penny Deutscher for having been awarded the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professorship in Ethics and Justice.
March 21, 2016
2015-2016 Undergraduate Awards
March 21, 2016
Congratulations to NU Philosophy grad student Carlos Pereira Di Salvo, on winning both a Fulbright and a DAAD for academic year 2016-17.
March 8, 2016
Congratulations to Philosophy and Law graduate student Raff Donelson, on publishing "Cruel and Unusual What?" in The Washington University Jurisprudence Review.
March 4, 2016
February
NU Philosophy Professor Jennifer Lackey, on the irrationality of life sentences in the New York Times
February 1, 2016 – from New York Times Opinionator
January
NU Philosophy alum Mark Silberg noted in Forbes magazine's "30 under 30" to watch for, in the category of Energy.
January 14, 2016 – from Forbes