MIT philosophy: news
April
- Ryan Doody and Miriam Schoenfield presented at the Northwest Time and Rationality Workshop
- Ian Wells and Nilanjan Das presented at the Northwestern/Notre Dame Epistemology Conference
- Jennifer Carr presented at the NYU/Columbia graduate student conference
- Sally Haslanger gave the Carus Lecturese at the Pacific APA, and three lectures at the CUNY graduate philosophy conference
- Arden Ali presented at the CUNY graduate philosophy conference
- Judy Thomson gave the Harvard Review of Philosophy lecture
- Steve Yablo was elected to the AAAS
March
February
January
December
November
October
September
- MIT alums Adam Elga and Rachael Briggs make the Philosopher's Annual (again), together with Roger White
May
- Steve Yablo gave the Kant lectures
- Tom Dougherty under discussion at PEA Soup
- Caspar Hare received tenure
April
March
February
January 2011
December
- The department is very sad to have to announce the death of Dick Cartwright on Dec 19th. Dick didn't want a funeral service, but we aim to have a celebration of his life and philosophy some time in the New Year.
November
October
September
June
May
- Steve Yablo has been profiled
- Yet more Sally news: she will deliver the next Paul Carus Lectures
- Sally has been named the 2010 Distinguished Woman Philosopher by SWIP
April
March
January 2010
December
November
October
September
- The MIT and IJN philosophers successfully self-located
- The 2008 Philosopher's Annual contains another bumper crop from MIT L&P: Agustín Rayo's "Vague Representation",
and Kai von Fintel's "CIA Leaks" (with Anthony Gillies)
August
- Judy Thomson gave a keynote address ("More on the Metaphysics of Harm") at the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. This fall she will be a Visiting Professor at Princeton.
- Julia Markovits joined the department from the Harvard Society of Fellows
- Paolo Santorio gave "Communication for Expressivists" (co-authored with Alejandro Pérez Carballo) at the ANU PhilSoc, and (last month) "Monsters and
binding" at the Melbourne AAP
July
June
May
April
March
February
- Steve Yablo is giving the Locke lectures in 2011-2
- Agustín Rayo was awarded a Burkhardt Residential Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for 2009-10
January 2009
December
- Public Intellectuals Division Christmas Special: Alex Byrne on God in the Boston Review
- Judy Thomson's Normativity has just been published,
and you can catch Judy talking about the subject on YouTube
- The context set was shrunk at the 30th birthday party for Bob Stalnaker's "Assertion"
- Sally Haslanger's OpenCourseWare class on ancient philosophy
has been translated into Persian
November
- more from our Public Intellectuals Division (this time the Premier League): Sally Haslanger talked about Queen Elizabeth, President Obama, and much more on
bloggingheads
October
- from our Public Intellectuals Division: Judy Thomson weighed in on x-phi,
and alum Liz Harman commented on the happiness of dogs
September
- the MIT philosophers retreated to Eastover
- Bob Stalnaker's Our Knowledge of the Internal World has just been published
- in an orderly handover that will see even higher yields from graduate students toiling in the field of philosophy, our
Great Leader, Steve Yablo, has been succeeded by our Dear Leader, Richard Holton
- The Philosopher's Annual have made their picks of ten best philosophy papers published in 2007: they include
Seth Yalcin's "Epistemic Modals", Sally Haslanger's "'But Mom, Crop Tops are Cute!' Social Knowledge, Social Structure and Ideology Critique",
and our alum Adam Elga's "Reflection and Disagreement"
The MIT philosophy summer diaspora is finally over...
- Steve Yablo and Agustín Rayo are back from Peru, Bob Stalnaker is back from France and Germany, Rae Langton and Richard Holton are back
from Iris Murdoch's house in Oxford, Alex Byrne is back from Australia and New Zealand, Caspar Hare is back from Britain, France, Macedonia, and Wisconsin,
Vann McGee sensibly stayed home, other faculty members as yet unaccounted for...
- Adam Hosein, David Etlin, and Brad Skow went to the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress; his youthful good looks secured Brad the young ethicist prize
- more news about the peripatetic Etlin: he, Sarah Moss and Bob Stalnaker gave talks at the First Formal
Epistemology Festival in Konstanz Germany -- which was partly in honor of Bob and
co-organized by MIT alum Eric Swanson
- David Etlin wandered around the Americas: he gave a talk in Paraty Brazil at CLE30/EBL
XV/SLALM XIV and then (if that were not exact enough) at the Society for Exact Philosophy, in Laramie Wyoming
- Heather Logue hopped around Australia: she gave a talk on The Relational and Representational Character of Perceptual Experience
at the ANU
- Lauren Ashwell hiked around England: she gave a talk at Bristol
- much summer chitchat from Holton and Langton: Richard gave talks about freedom of the will in
Oxford, Edinburgh, Oslo, Paris and Talahassee, and about factives in Oxford and Bristol; Rae gave talks about
unknowability and intrinsicness in Oxford and Bristol, and about pornography and hate speech in Oxford, London, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Oslo
May
- the philosophy indoor soccer team, the Existential Eliminators,
following distinguished predecessors, made the playoffs in our intramural competition
- in more tenure news, Steve Yablo's tenure as department head ended with a traditional reading of the hunting of the snark
- Agustín Rayo received tenure
April
March
February
- Judy Thomson gave the keynote address ("Turning the Trolley") at the USC/UCLA philosophy graduate
student conference, and stayed on at UCLA for the rest of the month to give a mini-seminar on
moral theory in the philosophy department, and a paper ("Some Reflections on Hart and Honore, Causation in the Law")
at the law school's legal theory workshop
- 13 students and 2 faculty decided to getfit
(alternative spin: 15 students and 10 faculty decided not to)
January 2008
December
November
- Richard Holton gave a public lecture, "What Does Empirical Research
on Moral Intuitions Tell Us about Morality?", at the Kennedy School of Government
October
September 2007
It's summertime and the academic living is easy...
MIT
philosophy
updated: 2 may 12
