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Philosophy major Mattie McGarey has won the 2018-19 Morris Judd Scholarship for Philosophy Majors. Information about the scholarship can be found here .

Undergraduate Toby Bollig has won the inaugural Morris Judd Undergraduate Essay Prize for the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the values area. An earlier version of his essay, titled “Is Circumventing the Euthyphro Dilemma By Appealing to God’s Nature Problematic?” is available here .

PhD candidate Zak Kopeikin has won the 2018 Jentzsch Prize for his paper "The Moral Epistemology of Bare-Difference Methodology". See more information about the Jentzsch Prize here .

PhD student and current Department Lead GPTI Caleb Pickard has won a University-wide 2017-2018 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award.

Carol Cleland is give a series of lectures in philosophy of science, from April 29 through May 14, to the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern, Bern Switzerland.

Professor Carol Cleland is 1 of 3 external speakers invited to NASA's "Life Detection Challenge Workshop" being held at NASA-Ames (California) this week. Her talk is titled "Searching for Potential Biological Anomalies using Tentative Criteria for Life".

Department PhD graduate Dan Lowe has accepted a position with the University of Michigan starting in Fall of 2018.

The Department has released its Spring 2018 newsletter. Click here to read it , and here for a list of all department newsletters .

PhD students Samuel Director and Gagan Sapkota have been awarded 2nd Leg Summer Fellowships from the Center for Humanities and the Arts for Summer 2018. The purpose of the fellowship is to help students to gain expertise in a field, or subfield, that is not the immediate focus of their...

PhD student Anthony Kelley has won a 2018 Summer Graduate School Fellowship and will receive three months of support for his dissertation work.