Department News

Philosophy concentrator and musician Brynn Elliott (class of 2018) is the subject of a profile piece in the Harvard Crimson. In it Elliott speaks about the philosophical influences on her songwriting and names the department's own Alison Simmons as one of...

The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard announced its list of recipients of awards for distinguished teaching during the spring of 2017. Eight graduate students in the Department of Philosophy received Certificates of Distinction for...

The 2017 Whitehead Lectures, delivered by philosopher Timothy Williamson of the University of Oxford, have been added to our department YouTube channel's growing list of video and audio lectures. The Whitehead Lectures, generously funded by a gift from...

This summer, three Department of Philosophy doctoral candidates took part in a week-long course and mentorship program for area high school students. The program, entitled “Consent and Civic Participation,” was jointly sponsored by ThinkerAnalytix—a non...

The Department of Philosophy recently announced the winners for the Bechtel, Bowen, Carrier, and Adams awards for 2016-17. The Bechtel Prize is funded through the generosity of Edwin Bechtel and is awarded to a graduate and undergraduate annually for the...

Two of the department's graduate students were recently named Edmond J Safra Graduate Fellows for the 2017-18 academic year. Diana Acosta-Navas and Noel Dominguez will join six other Safra Graduate Fellows in the fall. In addition to working on their...

Thomas W Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen has been awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. Sen was awarded the prize for a body of scholarship that "combines insights into human vulnerability with knowledge about the potential of...

Brian D Young Professor of Philosophy Richard Moran has published a collection of essays entitled The Philosophical Imagination (Oxford UP, 2017). The essays in the collection explore a range of philosophical topics—aesthetics, philosophy of mind and...

Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy Tommie Shelby has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2017. As noted by the philosophy blog Daily Nous, Shelby is one of two philosophers to receive the award this...

"If you are an economics major you probably won't be re-reading Milton Friedman in twenty years. That's not true of philosophy." That was just one of the many reasons for studying philosophy given by the panel of five alumni that met in Robbins Library on...