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SCHOLL LECTURE
STEPHEN STICH
Rutger University
"The Persistence of Moral Disagreement"
April 11, 2013, 4:30 - 6:30pm
ME 1130

STEPHEN STICH
Rutgers University
"Experimental Philosophy and the Bankruptcy of the Great Tradition"
April 12, 2013, 4:30 - 6:30pm
BRNG 1245

Department News

Natalia Washington and Dan Kelly presented their paper 'Who's Responsible for This? Implicit Bias and the Knowledge Condition' at the Implicit Bias and Philosophy workshop at the University of Sheffield in Great Britain on April 20, 2012 and at a meeting of the Filosofiska Föreningen at Lund University in Sweden on February 13, 2013.
The 1st issue of Sapientia, the Department's annual newsletter, is now available.
Philosophy major Aaron Trembath recognized for promoting entrepreneurship
Patricia Curd presented a paper, "Parmenides on Thought and Intelligibility" at the international conferrence, Parmenide: Ontogoica, Scienza, Mito; I risultati della ricerca rnternazionale a confronto at the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice, September 29-October 1. Professor Curd is on a research leave in Fall 2010 sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts Center for Humanistic Studies.
Michael Bergmann and Patrick Kain received a 3-year grant (2010-2013) from the John Templeton Foundation for a $500,000 project entitled "Knowing in Religion and Morality".
The Philosophy and Literature newsletter is now available.
Due to a generous gift from Tom Scholl, a 1970 graduate of the Philosophy Department and a 2009 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Alumnus, we will have a yearly guest speaker paid for by the Thomas H. Scholl Endowment Fund for Visiting Philosophers.
The Philosophy Department will host the 2010 Midwest Epistemology Workshop (MEW). Keynote Speaker: Jason Stanley. For information on MEW, see this link.
Patricia Curd received a National Humanities Center fellowship for 2009-10.
William McBride was elected President of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP).
Charlene Haddock Seigfried received the Herbert Schneider Award for 2009, the highest award of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.

The Department of Philosophy offers courses of study leading to the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. For details about the department’s programs, please use the links in the menu bar above.

The department’s faculty specialize in the History of Philosophy from antiquity to the present and in many areas of contemporary Analytic Philosophy and Continental European Philosophy. For more information, please browse the following pages: Faculty, Recent Faculty Books, Recent Faculty Articles, and Departmental Highlights.

Department Head: Matthias Steup
Director of Graduate Studies: Rod Bertolet
Director of Graduate Admissions: Paul Draper
Director of Placement: Christopher Yeomans
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Daniel Kelly

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The Bioethics Series

The Department is pleased to recognize Jonathan Beever and Nicolae Morar for their outstanding work as organizers of Purdue’s Bioethics Seminar Series. For information about the series and next year’s program, please visit the page Bioethics at Purdue.