J. L. A. Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, will be attending the Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Missouri from Sunday, June 11, to Tuesday June 13.
As its name suggests, the workshop brings together early career women in philosophy with mentors and other early career women to discuss their research as well as strategies for success in the discipline. There is mounting evidence that mentoring is important for success in academia, and the workshop aims to build long-term mentoring relationships between eminent...
Quinn White, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will sit on a panel to discuss the film After Yang at the Brattle Theater on January 31. Please see below for more information on the event.
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Selim Berker, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, published his paper "The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting" in Fittingness: Essays in the Philosophy of Normativity edited by Christopher Howard and R. A. Rowland on Oxford University Press.
Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper "Sensitivity, Safety, and Admissibility" in the December 2022 issue of Synthese.
Jeffrey McDonough, Professor of Philosophy, published a new book titledSaints, Heretics, and Atheists: A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.
Saints, Heretics, and Atheists offers a historical introduction to fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion: Does God exist? What is the nature of evil, and where does it come from? Are humans free? Responsible? Immortal? Does it matter?
Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, published a new book titledThe Idea of Prison Abolition. In The Idea of Prison Abolition, Shelby examines the abolitionist case against prisons and its formidable challenge to would-be prison reformers.
Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, published her paper “Vigilantism and Political Vision” in the Washington University Review of Philosophy (2:1-42 (2022)).
Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper"Who's Afraid of Normative Externalism?" in a new festschrift for Allan Gibbard, Meaning, Decision, and Norms: Themes from the Work of Allan Gibbard (Michigan Publishing Services, 2022).
From the work: “This paper is about what someone should do when she is not only unsure what first-order moral theory is true but also unsure about whether this moral uncertainty is itself morally relevant.”
Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will present at the Arché Institute's "Epistemology: Current Themes" series on November 17th.
The Epistemology: Current Themes group is one of six at Arché, a philosophical research centre at the University of St Andrews. For more information on the Arché institute...