Graduate News

The Emily and Charles Carrier Prize has been awarded to to Johann Frick for his dissertation “ ‘Making People Happy, Not Making Happy People’: A Defense of the Asymmetry Intuition in Population Ethics” (November 2014). Frick joined the philosophy...

Rain could not dampen the jubilant mood of the more than one hundred people who assembled on Tuesday outside Massachusetts Hall to deliver to President Drew Faust a petition calling for the capping of teaching sections to twelve students. Among those...

Elizabeth Miller, currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham (U.K.), has accepted an offer to join the Department of Philosophy at Yale University in the fall of 2015 as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. While at Birmingham, Miller...

Céline Leboeuf, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy, has been selected as one of eight Harvard Horizons Scholars for 2015. This prestigious award recognizes students "whose ideas, innovations, and insights have the potential to reshape...

Doctoral student Michael Rabenberg recently published an article entitled "Harm" in the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy. Rabenberg's article identifies a variety of defects in several recent accounts of harm and proposes a different view to address...

This fall Austin Booth (PhD 2014) became a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University, Canada. Booth's dissertation is entitled "Essays on Biological Individuality."

Oded Na'aman's article "Reasons of Love: A Case against Universalism about Practical Reason" will appear in The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, CX, No. 3, October 2015. Na'aman's article is an outgrowth of his dissertation entitled "Loving...

Three doctoral students in the philosophy department have been recognized for their outstanding teaching during the Spring of 2014. Javier Caride, Céline Leboeuf, and Paul Marcucilli were all awarded the Derek Bok Certificate of Excellence and Distinction...

Colin Chamberlain (PhD 2014) has accepted a tenure-track position at Temple University in Philadelphia. Chamberlain's current work focuses on the body-problem, particularly in Descartes and Malebranche but also in contemporary philosophy.

Elizabeth Miller has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. Miller's current research focuses on how metaphysical conclusions can be derived from scientific theories.