Evan Westra
Please join me in congratulating Evan Westra, assistant professor of philosophy, for receiving the 2023 Richard M. Griffiths Memorial Prize for best philosophy paper presented by an early-career scholar.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, the prize was awarded for Westra’s paper, “Symbolic Belief in Social Cognition,” wherein he argues that we cope with behavior tracking and enforce social norms by employing two distinct concepts of belief in our everyday social interactions: epistemic and symbolic.
Congratulations, Professor Westra!
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