Alumni Association Award for Writing Excellence
Undergraduate Senior Ethan Rubin’s paper was selected to receive this year’s Award for Writing Excellence in the Humanities in Honor of Robert E. Charm. Ethan will be recognized at this year’s Class Day Ceremony on Saturday, May 15th at Morse Auditorium.
Justin Steinberg (GRS ’07) Wins Journal of the History of Philosophy Award
Recent PhD Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College) has received the award for the the best contribution to the Articles section of the Journal of the History of Philosophy for 2009 for his article ‘Spinoza on Civil Liberation’ (vol. 47: 35–58)
New Assistant Professor Specializing in 19th Century Philosophy Arriving Fall 2010
Paul Katsafanas joins the Philosophy Department in the Fall 2010 Semester. He has previously been an assistant professor at University of New Mexico and an instructor at Harvard University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2008. This fall he will be teaching PH350 History of Ethics.
New Assistant Professor Specializing in Ancient Philosophy Arriving Fall 2010
David Bronstein will join the department in September 2010. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and was previously a lecturer in philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2008. This upcoming Fall Semester he will be […]
New Lecturer
Boston University Ph.D. Candidate Matthew Meyer joins the Department as a Lecturer for the 2010 Spring semester. This past fall he defended his dissertation on Nietzche’s revival of themes criticized by both Plato and Artistotle.
New Visiting Professor
Professor Mitchell Miller joins the department from Vassar College for the 2010 Spring Semester as a John Findlay Visiting Professor. His area of specialization is in Ancient Philosophy.
Three New Visiting Professors Join the Philosophy Departmen
Professor Anthony Corsentino joins us from Wellesley College. Professor Carol Isaacson Barash joins us from Genetics, Ethics, & Policy Consulting. Professor Bret Doyle joins us after a visiting Assistant Professor position at Skidmore College last year.
New Assistant Professor David Liebesman
David Liebesman joins the Philosophy Department as a new Assistant Professor. He graduated from Cornell University in 2009, specializing in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics. For more information, please see https://www.bu.edu/philo/people/faculty/full-time/david-liebesman/
New Senior Program Coordinator
Lesley Moreau joins us as the new Senior Program Coordinator. Lesley graduated from Suffolk University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Communications and a minor in theatre. She was an employee for almost four years of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office working in Superior, District, as well as Appeals Courts. This past […]
Spring 2009 Boston Wittgenstein Workshop
A Wittgenstein Workshop will take place at Boston University, meeting concurrently with Juliet Floyd’s seminar on Philosophical Investigations. The seminar meets Mondays 3:30-6:30pm in room 525 at 745 Commonwealth Avenue and all are welcome; students from Harvard and Suffolk University will be occasionally attending. Lectures are as follows: Jean-Philippe Narboux, Université de Bordeaux, 3/16/09, “An […]