W. Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and of Mathematics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy elects members in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
Congratulations, Professor Woodin!
For more information on the National Academy of Sciences, please see their website here: https://www.nasonline.org/
The recordings from the 2023 Whitehead Lectures by Peter Godfrey-Smith are now available on the department's YouTube channel.
Limits of Sentience, Boundaries of Consideration
April 13-14, 2023
Harvard University
Work in several fields has made it appear likely that sentience, or subjective experience, is present in many more animals than has often been supposed. The first lecture, “...
Dr. Mariana Beatriz Noé will join the department as the 2023-2024 Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Noé completed her Ph.D. in Classical Studies at Columbia University and her Licentiate degree in Philosophy (summa cum laude) at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Noé will be joining the department from Columbia University, where she is currently the Early Career Fellow in the Discipline of Philosophy.
Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, and Kristie Dotson, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at University of Michigan, were awarded the 2023 Lebowitz Prize by the American Philosophical Association and the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, was named one of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's 2023 Fellows. The fellowship is awarded to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."
Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will give a colloquium lecture at Stanford University on April 7th. In the talk, titled “Reluctant Heroes,” Professor Johnson King will use essential workers at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study to discuss the ethics of praise.
Philosopy concentrator Ilana Cohen ('23) will speak about the Fossil Free Research movement on the "Shifting Academic Institutions" panel at the 2023 Philosophers for Sustainability Philosophy & the Climate Conference. The conference will be on held on Zoom on April 29 and aims to "work toward addressing the climate crisis through teaching, curriculum development, event organizing, public philosophy, and institutional advocacy and change."
For more informaiton on the conference and to register, please visit: ...
Jeff Behrends, Senior Research Scholar and Associate Senior Lecturer on Philosophy, gave one of the keynote lectures at the 2023 Gateway Graduate Conference at the University of Missouri – St. Louis on April 1. Professor Behrends’ talk was titled “Reason, Reasons, and Instrumental Transmission,” and spoke to the conference's topics of metaethics, metaepistemology, and metanormativity.
Zoe Jenkin (Harvard PhD 2020) gave the keynote on March 31.
For more information on the conference, please see their website here:...