Congratulations to NU Philosophy major Laura Abruzzo, who published her paper "The Most Compassionate Aid" in the Princeton Journal of Bioethics. (originally posted 8/15/2017)
October 30, 2019
2017 News
October
December
Congratulations to philosophy graduate student Amy Floweree on accepting a 3-year postdoctoral position at the University of Cologne's Center for Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition.
December 21, 2017
Congratulations to NU Philosophy's Ethics Bowl team, which qualified to compete at the National Competition in Dallas in February
December 12, 2017
Congratulations to Professor Kyla Ebels-Duggan
December 12, 2017 – from Association of American Colleges & Universities
Ebels-Duggan's paper in THE AIMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION is in a volume that just won the Association of American Colleges and Universities annual Frederick Ness prize for a book contributing to our understanding of liberal education.
November
Congratulations to PhD student Gretchen Ellefson who has just been named to the American Philosophical Association's Graduate Student Council.
November 2, 2017
June
Congratulations to Graduate Program Assistant Ozge Kocak, whose paper "The past as an object: Orientalist Fantasies" was just published in the Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures.
June 20, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Carlos Pereira Di Salvo, who successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Reconstructing the Kantian Cosmopolitan Project."
June 13, 2017
Congrats to Morganna Lambeth and Lauren Leydon-Hardy n on winning the 2016-2017 Thomas A. McCarthy for teaching excellence!
June 6, 2017
Congratulations to our graduating majors Gustavo Berrizbeitia, Perry Har, and Ajay Nadig, who received the honor of being named Phi Beta Kappa.
June 1, 2017
May
Congratulations to Professor Baron Reed, who has just been elected Vice President of the Northwestern Faculty Senate, starting AY 2017-18.
May 15, 2017
April
Congratulations to Philosophy major Gus Berrizibeitia on being chosen as a Carnegie junior fellow.
April 23, 2017 – from The Daily Northwestern
Congratulations to Professor Fabrizio Cariani, who was awarded a fellowship from the Mellon Foundation for his project entitled, "Understanding Predictive Thought."
April 21, 2017
Congratulations to NU Philosophy PhD student Dr. Jared Peterson, on passing his PhD defense!
April 17, 2017
Congratulations to NU Philosophy PhD Derek Green, who has accepted the position of (renewable) Lecturer at the University of Central Florida.
April 10, 2017
Congratulations to NU Philosophy PhD Jared Peterson, who has accepted a visiting position at University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
April 3, 2017
March
Congratulations to NU Philosophy student Dr. Amy Flowerree, on passing her PhD defense!
March 30, 2017
Congratulations to NU Philosophy student Dr. Raff Donelson, on passing his PhD defense!
March 23, 2017
Professor Baron Reed interviewed on Philosophy Talk on Knowing What We Know
March 22, 2017 – from Philosophy Talk
Congratulations to Philosophy grad student Amy Flowerree, who has accepted a tenure-track position at Texas Tech University (following next year's one-year post-doc at the University of Cologne).
March 16, 2017
Congratulations to Professor Fabrizio Cariani
March 10, 2017
Cariani's paper, "Deontic Modals and Probabilities: One Theory to Rule Them All?" (in Deontic Modality, N. Charlow and M. Chrisman (eds.), Oxford University Press) was just named one of the ten best papers of 2016 by the Philosophers Annual.
Congratulations to Professor Tushar Irani (PhD Northwestern Philosophy, '08) on being awarded tenure at Wesleyan University.
March 9, 2017
Professor Jennifer Lackey's prison students featured on NPR program Written Inside
March 7, 2017 – from Written Inside: Stories About Prison Cells
Congratulations to Professor Penny Deutscher on being a co-recipient of a $1 million Mellon Grant to lead a curriculum initiative focusing on Critical Theory in the Global South.
March 7, 2017 – from Northwestern Now News
Congratulations to Philosophy PhD Guy Elgat on the publication of his book Nietzsche's Psychology of Ressentiment: Revenge and Justice in On the Genealogy of Morals (Routledge).
March 2, 2017
February
Philosophy professor Jennifer Lackey holds ethics classes at maximum security prison
February 26, 2017 – from The Daily Northwestern
January
Professor Jennifer Lackey recognized for her work at Stateville Prison.
January 11, 2017 – from Daily Nous
Congratulations to Philosophy PhD student Raff Donelson, who has just accepted a (tenure-track) position as Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy at Louisiana State University!
January 4, 2017