MIT philosophy: news

May

• literary news: alum Rachael Briggs on possible dragons; Julia Markovits' brother passes by on his world tour; Caspar Hare's wife on swearing

April

• Rae Langton has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• the Harvard/MIT graduate philosophy conference, scheduled for 20 April, is cancelled
• our possible worlds hedgehog

March

• following the astounding discovery of "Twin-Cambridge", a city far across the sea where the inhabitants speak a language very much like English, MIT philosophy has dispatched Rae Langton and Richard Holton to investigate

February

• one of the best philosophy books of 2012 is...
• Sally Haslanger explains what is 'natural' and what is 'social'
• Julia Markovits has been promoted to Associate Professor without Tenure

January

• a successful MITing of the Minds

December

• our outsized influence
• Judy Thomson has won the Quinn Prize

October

• Rae Langton at Philosophy Bites, on hate speech
• more (belated) publishing news: Robert Stalnaker's Mere Possibilities
• A new book from Sally Haslanger: Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique

September

• Steve Yablo is now the David D. Skinner Professor of Philosophy

June

• the hacks at the news page are taking an ill-deserved summer break
• Sally Haslanger has been elected Vice President of the Eastern Division of the APA

May

• Steve Yablo gave the Locke lectures
• Cambridge-Squared, an alliance between the our-fair-city-Cambridge philosophers (Harvard, MIT) and the other-Cambridge philosophers, kicked off with a conference in the other-Cambridge

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

• Sally Haslanger gave the Ryle Lectures at Trent University
• Daniel Hagen presented at the University of Iowa graduate philosophy conference, and Arden Ali presented at INPC
• Fellowships to Brad Skow (ACLS) and Steve Yablo (ACLS and Guggenheim)
• the Harvard-MIT graduate philosophy conference recurred

February

• philosophy not useless, part 2: MIT alum becomes chancellor of UMaine

January 2012

• philosophy not useless: Richard Holton on New Year's Resolutions

December

• Rae Langton will give the 2014-5 Locke lectures
• the linguists threw a party

November

• MIT grad brings hope, logic, to Kansas City
• Sally Haslanger, a woman of the year in our fair city

October

• Melissa Schumacher's Cantorian tattoo
• MIT philosophers past and present did something right

September 2011

• MIT alums Adam Elga and Rachael Briggs make the Philosopher's Annual (again), together with Roger White