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2008 News and Events
20-Aug-08: Mark your calendars for a workshop with Edouard Machery, from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, on Wednesday, February 11th, from 3–5pm (title TBA).
25-Jul-08: Congratulations to Jayne Gales, whose daughter recently gave birth to a baby girl!
07-Jul-08: Congratulations
to John
Perry (who will be joining us next
year) and Ken
Taylor for this LA
Times article on Philosophy
Talk.
19-Jun-2008: Congratulations
to Erich
Reck for receiving one of twenty
inaugural COR Research
Fellowships from the Academic
Senate, and to Coleen
Macnamara for receiving
a Regents' Fellowship from the
Academic Senate!
18-Jun-2008: Congratulations
to Larry
Wright, who has
been awarded the McCauley-McSweeny Chair
in Teaching Excellence for 2008–09!
17-Jun-2008: Our faculty summer reading
recommendations have been
posted.
12-Jun-2008: Congratulations
to Neal
Tognazzini, who has
been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation
Completion Fellowship!
09-Jun-2008: The
department held
a luncheon on Friday,
June 6th, for
its graduating majors in Philosophy and
Philosophy/Law and Society. Congratulations
to all of our graduates! (Update:
See also a
picture of a few of our Philosophy and
Philosophy/Law and Society majors just
before the start of the commencement ceremony
on June 15th.)
05-Jun-2008: Mark
your calendars! Our annual conference, focusing
on the work of John Perry, will be occurring
in April 2009. Look for
more details to follow.
04-Jun-2008: Jonathan
Dancy will be speaking at UCR on December
3rd as
part of the Graduate Student Choice Colloquium.
(More details to follow.)
03-Jun-2008: Jon
Haidt will be giving a talk
at UCR on
the afternoon of November
12th. (More details
to follow.)
28-May-2008:
Congratulations to Carl
Cranor for winning the Academic Senate
Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes "exceptional
effort and achievement in service to the UCR Campus"!
Carl was also chosen as this year’s Honors
Program Professor of the Year for his
Honors discussion section of LWSO100.
20-May-2008: The family
of the late Oliver Johnson, professor of
philosophy emeritus at UCR, has
endowed a scholarship to enable a graduating
senior from UCR to pursue graduate studies
in philosophy.
17-May-2008: Andrew
Eshleman (Ph.D., 1998) was honored with
a Faculty
Excellence Award from UALR.
23-Apr-2008: Congratulations
to Robert
Sanchez for winning the 2008
Barricelli Memorial Grant!
10-Apr-2008: Maudemarie
Clark, who is currently Carleton Professor
of Philosophy at Colgate University and
an eminent Nietzsche scholar,
has accepted a senior
offer from the UCR Philosophy Department!
(Read
more about this hire.)
09-Apr-2008: Agnieszka
Jaworska, who is currently Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University,
has accepted a tenured offer from the UCR Philosophy Department!
08-Apr-2008: John
Perry, a distinguished
philosopher of language and mind, has agreed
to join the Philosophy Department, on
a half-time basis, as a part of UCR's
Eminent Scholars Program!
03-Mar-2008: Amy MacArthur,
who wrote her dissertation under the supervision
of Andy Reath on
Kant's account of the duty of self-knowledge,
has accepted a position as Assistant Professor
in the Department
of Religion and Philosophy at High
Point University in High Point,
North Carolina.
15-Feb-2008: John
Fischer has been chosen to deliver the 2008
Hourani Lectures, which are awarded
every two years to a philosopher working
in either ethics or Islamic philosophy.
Previous Hourani lecturers have been Jeff
McMahan, Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum,
Onora O'Neill, and Shelly Kagan.
18-Jan-2008: Georgia
Warnke has published a new book with
Cambridge University Press: After
Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender.
(Update: On April 23rd, there
was a
reception held at the Dean’s patio to
celebrate the book’s publication.)
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