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Zoë Johnson King Wins Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching
Professor Zoë Johnson King has received the Alpha-Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching, awarded annually by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Each year, the undergraduate members of Alpha Iota, led by four Phi Beta Kappa Marshals, select three members of the...
Congratulations to the 2025/2026 Philosophy Department Prize Winners!
The Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce the winners of this year's Adams, Carrier, Bechtel, and Bowen Prizes. Congratulations to all of these deserving undergraduate and graduate students!
Philosophy Concentrators Among 2026 Hoopes Prize Winners
Three Philosophy concentrators, Ariel (Ari) Kohn, Willa Kramer, and Arundhati (Dhati) Oommen were among 71 Harvard College seniors awarded Hoopes prizes for their senior theses. Willa is a joint concentrator Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies, whose...
Upcoming Events
History of Philosophy Workshop: Patrick Connolly (Johns Hopkins University), "Newton’s Matter Theory: Between Mechanism and Hylomorphism"
September 11, 2026
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211
In Person
Abstract: The shift from hylomorphism to mechanism is among the defining features of the early modern philosophy. Mechanist philosophers rejected the Scholastic hylomorphic accounts of bodies on the grounds that they were unintelligible, unparsimonious...
Colloquium Lecture: Tom Parr (University of Warwick), "Markets, Firms, and the Gender Pay Gap"
September 25, 2026
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Emerson Hall 305
In Person
Abstract: Assuming that the gender pay gap is unjust, what are the corresponding responsibilities of firms, in particular, to eliminate their own gender pay gap? In this presentation, I challenge the extremely popular, and seemingly modest, claim that...
History of Philosophy Workshop: Sean Greenberg
October 9, 2026
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson 211
In Person
Book Release: Céline Leboeuf, "The Tyranny of Thinness"
October 21, 2026
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7:00PM EDT
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Porter Square Books (1815 Massachusetts Avenue)
In Person
Céline Leboeuf (PhD '16) is an associate professor of philosophy and affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Florida International University. This event will be hosted by Porter Square Books. Find more information and register here. ...