MIT philosophy news

David Etlin, Caspar Hare, and Agustín Rayo all went to Paris to talk about vagueness
Irving Singer is on MIT World
MIT alum Peter Koellner won a Goedel centenary prize
the 16th annual Harvard-MIT graduate student philosophy conference went swimmingly
Ephraim Glick gave a paper ("What is the Problem of Intentional Identity?") at the central APA, winning a graduate student travel stipend

Steve Yablo gave the Hempel Lectures at Princeton
AskPhilosophers has been selected as one of the 101 most useful websites, which must have something to do with Sally's answers
Ephraim Glick and Paolo Santorio gave papers at the Princeton/Rutgers graduate conference
Brad Skow was picked to pick the Burchard Scholars
Bob Stalnaker gave the keynote address ("The New Relativism") at the NYU/Columbia philosophy graduate student conference

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)

Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy, edited by Sally Haslanger and others, now has a companion blog: Gender, Race and Philosophy: The Blog
faculty and graduate students of past and present had an enjoyable and successful MITing

while the faculty were busy collecting their prizes, Seth Yalcin published "Epistemic Modals" in Mind
in late breaking news, Brad Skow won the 2007 Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholars Competition

Richard Holton gave a public lecture, "What Does Empirical Research on Moral Intuitions Tell Us about Morality?", at the Kennedy School of Government

Irving Singer gave a public talk and reading from his new book on Ingmar Bergman at Lame Duck Books
Valentina Urbanek presented "Person affecting reasons and the nature of morality" at the Northern New England Philosophical Association
Irving Singer's book Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity was published by MIT Press

the department introduced a new undergraduate concentration in ethics
Rachael Briggs rewrote "Diamonds are a girl's best friend"
Alex Byrne gave the Burman lectures in Umeå, Sweden
Sally Haslanger's paper "Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: not by reason (alone)" made crooked timber and inside higher ed

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updated: 9 may 2008