Department of Philosophy

Announcements

• Stevens and Woodbridge Scholarships Awarded

  Mick Hedberg was awarded the Dr. Eldon L. and Helen H. Stevens Scholarship in Philosophy ($1,000) and Brendan Caldwell was awarded the Frederick Woodbridge Scholarship in Philosophy ($1,000). These awards provide modest merit scholarships to some of our most outstanding and promising undergraduate majors. Congratulations!

  05/15/13

• Faculty Member Elected as President of PSA

  Congratulations to C. Kenneth Waters, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, who has been elected President of the Philosophy of Science Association. Professor Waters will serve a two-year term (from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2014) as Vice-President of the PSA, after which he will serve a two-year term (January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016) as President of the Association, delivering the PSA Presidential Address at PSA2016 in Atlanta.

  05/08/13

• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships Awarded

  William Bausman and Brian Wilson were awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2013-2014. Will's dissertation is entitled "Neutral Theory, Biased World?" (Ken Waters, adviser), and Brian Wilson's project is entitled "Divorcing Ability and Obligation" (Sarah Holtman and Roy Cook, co-advisers). Congratulations!

  05/07/13

• Undergraduates Receive Award

  Maxwell Davis (Philosophy) and Mick Hedberg (Philosophy and Political Science) have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the Alpha Chapter of the University of Minnesota. Congratulations!

  04/16/13

• Faculty Member Award

  Congratulations to Alan Love who was named Scholar of the College (2013-2015) by the College of Liberal Arts.

  03/06/13

• Recent Placement of Graduate Students

  We are pleased to congratulate our former graduate student Ms. Yi Deng, Ph.D., on her recent appointment to a tenure-track job as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia. Yi Deng successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "Toward 'Free Trade' from Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal" last summer, which was co-advised by Sarah Holtman and Joseph Owens.

  03/06/13

• Faculty Member Fellowship and Award

  Congratulations to Valerie Tiberius who won a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write a book on well-being and friendship, and also was given the Council of Graduate Students Outstanding Faculty Award for 2012!

  10/01/12

• Quantifying the Gender Gap

  Graduate student Molly Paxton and faculty member Valerie Tiberius, along with their collaborator Carrie Figdor, just published a paper entitled "Quantifying the Gender Gap: An Empirical Study of the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy" in Hypatia. In addition to corroborating other studies of gender representation in philosophy among faculty, their data on undergraduate students, undergraduate majors, and graduate students show that the biggest drop in the proportion of women in philosophy occurs between students enrolled in introductory philosophy classes and philosophy majors, but that the drop is mitigated by the presence of more women philosophy faculty. Others are commenting on it elsewhere. Read the paper!

  06/26/12

• Undergraduate Research in Philosophy

  Interested in doing cutting-edge research in an area of philosophy? The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) makes this possible. UROP provides grants of up to $1,700 for undergraduate students either to carry out a project of the student's own design in close collaboration with a faculty sponsor or work with a faculty member on her/his scholarly or creative project. In the process you develop a detailed knowledge of research methods while the faculty sponsors gain the assistance of enthusiastic and capable students.

  For more details about UROP, click here. For application materials, click here. If you have questions about UROP, please contact Rebecca Rassier.

  09/14/10