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Professor Zoë Johnson King, a member of the department since 2022, has now been promoted to associate professor. Congratulations!

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!

Professor Samantha Matherne is a winner of the 2025 Lebowitz prize for philosophical achievement and contribution awarded by the Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦBK) in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association (APA). Each year, the award is...

PhD Candidate Yunhyae Kim has accepted the position of Assistant Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Politics. Congratulations!

Professor Gina Schouten has been named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow. The annual awards honor faculty members for their contributions to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of literature, history, or art. The Cabot Fellowships are traditionally...

Philosophy concentrators Madeleine Dowd, Lucas Hustick, and Pauliina Rumm have been awarded the Hoopes Prize for their senior theses. 

The Hoopes Prize — awarded to 71 Harvard undergraduates this year — is annually conferred in recognition of outstanding...

Dr. Noé will be an assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of Arizona. Congratulations! 

Clara Carus, a visiting scholar in philosophy, and Jeffrey McDonough, professor of philosophy and director of the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop, have published Émilie Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff: Similarities and Differences...