Prof. Nick Huggett, with Prof Christian Wüthrich of the University of Geneva, have received a grant from the Templeton foundation to expand their Beyond Spacetime project for the next three years. The project…
Myisha Cherry, a PhD student in the department, will be speaking at UIC TEDx. She will be defending moral anger’s appropriateness, and its motivational and productive features — attempting to persuade the audience to…
Prof. Nick Huggett has received the UIC graduate college mentoring award. The award recognizes excellence and innovation in all aspects of graduate mentoring. Congratulations!
Prof. Eaton’s paper, “Robust Immoralism”, was recently named one of five outstanding papers published in 2012 in the Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics. See here for the announcement.
A recent issue of Atlas (the newsletter of the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) contains a profile of recent PhD Tiziana Vistarini, who is currently part of a Cosmology project at…
A recent issue of “Tableau” (the magazine of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago) contains an interesting and informative profile of Prof Sedgwick here.
Prof. Sally Sedgwick was been awarded a Fulbright grant to spend the next academic year in Berlin. She will spending the year at the Free University of Berlin. Congratulations to Sally!
Professor Mahrad Almotahari has won the 2013 Essay prize from the journal “Philosophical Quarterly”, for his essay “The Identity of a Material Thing and its Matter”. Congratulations to him. More info here.
Prof. Fleischacker has been given the Distinguished Researcher award, from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Below is a description of the award, and a description of Prof. Fleischacker’s recent research.…