This page is an archive of our announcements from 2005. For current departmental announcement, please return to our homepage.

Philosophy Professor Michael Tooley Wins Fellowship

Congratulations to Philosophy Professor Michael Tooley for being awarded a prestigious Faculty Fellowship by the CU Graduate School's Council on Research and Creative Work. Professor Tooley will use the fellowship to work on a book on perception. [Posted 12/05/05]

CU Philosophy Publishes First Newsletter

Click here to see the philosophy department's first ever newsletter (PDF file). [Posted: 11/09/05]

CU Philosophy Is Hiring

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER, CO. The Department of Philosophy invites applications for two positions, open rank and open AOS. We anticipate making one senior and one junior appointment, both beginning in Fall 2006. Strong applicants in all areas are encouraged to apply, but we have particular needs in history of modern philosophy, philosophy of science, and political philosophy. 4 courses/year, thesis supervision and the usual non-teaching duties. Junior applicants should send a full dossier; senior applicants need send only a letter of application and a CV, with the names of at least three references. Mail applications to [Junior/Senior] Search in [M&E/History/Values], Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, 232 UCB, Boulder CO 80309-0232. (Choose one term from within each pair of brackets.) Review will begin November 1, although applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. The University of Colorado at Boulder is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment.[11/01/05 ]

CU Philosophers Win APA Book Prize

The philosophical foundations of real-world moral dilemmas like looting and abortion are examined in two books by University of Colorado at Boulder philosophy professors that have recently been honored in the American Philosophical Association's 2005 Book Prize competition.

Associate Professor Robert Pasnau's book "Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature" won the Book Prize, widely considered to be the most prestigious award in the professional philosophy community for authors under age 40. Associate Professor David Boonin's book, "A Defense of Abortion," was one of only two works to receive honorable mention in the national competition.

Pasnau received $4,000 as part of the prize. "It's quite a coup for the CU-Boulder department to win and receive honorable mention as well," said Pasnau, who is the current department chair. "It's something we're very excited about."

Hiring for Positions Beginning Fall 05

The Philosophy Department is very pleased to announce the following five new additions to the Department.

• Mitzi Lee. Currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois/Chicago, Mitzi works in ancient philosophy. Her book, Epistemology after Protagoras, is just out from Oxford University Press.
• Robert Rupert. Rob is currently an assistant professor at Texas Tech. He works in philosophy of mind and has published extensively in leading journals.
• Eric Chwang. Eric recieved his PhD from Princeton and an MD from Baylor. He works in ethics and political philosophy, with a special interest in medical ethics.  For the next year and a half he will be holding an NIH postdoc.
• Chris Heathwood. Chris received his PhD this year from UMass. He works in ethics, and has already published numerous papers.
• David Barnett. David is currently an assistant professor at the University of Vermont.  He works on metaphysics and language and has published in leading philosophy journals.

Even after these appointments, the Department still has around five open lines on which we will be hiring over the next several years.

Also, we've appointed two new one-year visitors for 2005-2006:

• Benjamin Hale (Stony Brook PhD), currently a visiting professor at NYU.  Ben's main focus is environmental ethics, but he has broad interests in political and moral philosophy.

• Nic Damnjanovic (ANU PhD). Nic works on mind and language, and has a paper on the deflationary theory of truth in The Phil Quarterly from January 2005.

Also, Laurence Nemirow will be teaching a graduate course in the philosophy of mind for us next spring.  Larry is a well-known name in that field for his contributions to the debate over Jackson's knowledge argument (aka "What does Mary know?").

Research

• Robert Hanna has two books forthcoming:

• Rationality and Logic (MIT Press)
• Kant, Science, and Human Nature (Oxford Univ. Press)

• Graham Oddie has just published his new book, Value, Reality, and Desire, with Oxford University Press.

• Claudia Mills has been named a judge for the children's book category of the prestigious National Book Award.

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