UPA Wins Giving Day Donation Challenge, Raises $5k+ for Student Activities
The Department would like to extend hearty congratulations to the Undergraduate Philosophy Association (UPA) for their spirited fundraising efforts this 2023 Giving Day, which found them lauded across campus and $5,000+ dollars richer. The UPA ended up topping the ‘Student Clubs & Organizations’ category, which netted them a bonus $1,000 on top of their already […]
Four Philosophy Students Receive 2023 BUCH Student Awards
Graduate student Federica Bocchi and Micah Trautmann and Undergraduates Aliya Mulla and Nathaniel Ceus have been selected by the BU Center for the Humanities as recipients of the 2023 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Awards, respectively. These Awards are incredibly competitive and awarded to students doing excellent work in the humanities. Congratulations Federica, Micah, Aliya, and […]
Graduate Student Leticia Castillo Brache Awarded 2023 Abner Shimony Prize
The Department is thrilled to congratulate graduate student Leticia Castillo Brache for winning the Abner Shimony Prize this year. The Abner Shimony Prize is a permanently endowed fund named for Professor Emeritus Abner Shimony that provides annual awards to one or more undergraduate or graduate students of the College of Arts & Sciences. The student […]
Visiting Professor Stephanie Sheintul Accepts Tenure-Track Position at The University of Adelaide
The Philosophy Department would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Visiting Professor Stephanie Sheintul, who recently accepted a position as Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at The University of Adelaide, Australia. The Lecturer position, which is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Professorship, is set to begin in July. Congratulations, Stephanie!
Graduate Student Marie Le Blevennec Receives BUCH Dissertation Fellowship
The Department would like to congratulate graduate student Marie Le Blevennec on being awarded a BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH) Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Marie’s research focuses on various ethical problems concerning the impact of new reproductive technologies on procreation, and on the resulting moral dilemmas facing prospective parents, medical […]
Graduate Student Federica Bocchi Publishes Piece in “Extinct”
The Philosophy Department would like to congratulate PhD candidate Federica Bocchi on her article, titled “Are We In a Biodiversity Crisis? Paleocurves, Measurements, and Problematic Inferences”, which was published earlier this month in Extinct: the Philosophy of Palaeontology Blog. Click here for a link to the article. Federica writes the following overview of her argument: […]
Graduate Student Cansu Hepçağlayan Publishes Article in “Ethical Theory and Moral Practice”
The Philosophy Department is excited to announce that one of our PhD students, Cansu Hepçağlayan, just had an article published in the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. The article is titled “Reasons for Political Friendship.” Click here for the link to the article. The abstract is as follows: “ Scholarly curiosity about political friendship […]
Professor Juliet Floyd Appointed Director of the BU Center for the Humanities
The Department would like to wish warm congratulations to Professor Juliet Floyd, who has been appointed as the next Director of the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH), effective July 2023. The BUCH was founded through a grant from the NEH in 1981, and its steadfast mission is to provide crucially needed financial support and […]
Chair Sally Sedgwick to Have Monograph Translated into Chinese
The Department would like to wish warm congratulations to Professor and Department Chair Sally Sedgwick in announcing the translation of her book, Hegel’s Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity, into Chinese. The book, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2014, and is available for purchase. Click here for more info on the […]
Professor Victor Kumar co-authors Boston Globe Article
Professor Victor Kumar, along with his co-author Josh May, had an article published in the Boston Globe entitled, “The thing that could finally get us to eat less meat is — meat.” The article, appearing in the Perspectives section of the Globe’s Magazine, explains how new developments in cruelty-free and alternative meat production may finally […]