TheHarvard Crimson has a feature on the recent conference "Belonging: The Challenges of Reentry,: a conference on the challenges and successes of people reentering society after having been incarcerated.
The conference, which took place on Friday, September 28th, was organized by Philosophy Department PhD candidates Darien Pollock and Diana Acosta Navas and African along with African American Studies PhD candidate Bréond Durr. You can read more about the conference at...
Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, will give the Royce Lectures at Brown University on October 1-3, 2018. The title of the three lectures Professor Siegel will deliver each address the question, "Does Perception Come in Degrees?," with each lecture taking up a different approach to this topic: Epistemology (October 1); Phenomenology (October 2); and Cognitive Science (October 3). The times and locations for the three lectures are available on the...
The Department of Philosophy at Harvard University is pleased to announce the appointment of Selim Berker to the position of Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. Berker succeeds T.M. Scanlon in this position, who retired from the department in the spring of 2016.
The Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity is among the oldest endowed chairs at Harvard University, having been first established in 1789. Past holders of the chair include Josiah Royce, Gerge Herbert Palmer, William Ernest Hocking, and Roderick Firth...
The Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce the winners of this year's Carrier and Adams Prizes, awarded annually to an undergraduate and graduate student. You can read more about the history of these prizes below. Congratulations to all of these deserving undergraduate and graduate students!
The recipients of this year's Carrier Prize are:
Theresa (Tez) Clark for her senior thesis, “Understanding Against the Evidence: On Believing What's Good over What's True”
Doctoral student Zoe Jenkin was recently awarded the Bechtel Prize by the Harvard University Department of Philosophy for her essay "The Epistemic Role of Core Cognition." The prize was established through the generosity of Edwin D. Bechtel and is awarded annually for the best essay on a philosophical subject.Read more about Zoe Jenkin awarded Bechtel Prize
Doctoral student Sandy Diehl was recently awarded the Bowen Prize by the Harvard University Department of Philosophy for his essay "Why Immanent Critique?" The prize, established in 1938 by a bequest from Miss Maria Bowen as a memorial to her father who held the Alford professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity from 1853 to 1889, is awarded annually for the best essay upon a subject in moral or political philosophy.Read more about Sandy Diehl awarded Bowen Prize
The Graduate Student Council recently named Professor Alison Simmons as one of five recipients of the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. This award, named for Professor emeritus in the History of Science Everett Mendelsohn, recognizes faculty members who have made distincitve and generous contributions towards the lives and scholarly development of their graduate advisees. Simmons has previously been recognized for the excellence of... Read more about Alison Simmons receives Mendlesohn award for mentoring
James Doyle, Lecturer in Philosophy at Harvard, has recently published No Morality, No Self: Anscombe's Radical Skepticism, which will be released in April through Harvard University Press.
Frequently cited and just as often disputed, Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958) and “The First Person” (1975) are touchstones of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Though the arguments Anscombe advances in these papers are familiar to philosophers, their significance remains widely misunderstood, says ...
On Thursday, February 22, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael Smith announced this year's recipients of the Dean's Distinction award, honoring Faculty of Arts and Sciences staff members "whose contributions, citizenship, and skillful collaboration have delivered outstanding results for the FAS in 2017." Among the thirty-nine individuals recognized for their excellence was Department of Philosophy Coordinator Nyasha Borde.
