Our alumna Valentina Martinis (PhD, 2023) received the 2025 Roland Atefie Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, for her dissertation Perceiving and Thinking: Inquiry into Two Types of Phenomenology. The 4000 euro Roland Atefie Award recognizes an outstanding doctoral thesis in the fields of philosophy, theology or Indology written at an Aust
April 14, 2026
Our alumnus, Dong-geun Kim (MA 2020), recently graduated from the PhD program at the University of Edingburgh. He defended his dissertation entitled "From Beings to Being: Plato’s Dialectic of Being in the Sophist" on 3rd April 2026.
Congratulations, Dr. Kim!
January 7, 2026
Our alumnus, Anton Dolmatov (MA 2022), was awarded the 2026 William James Prize.
April 7, 2025
Our recent alumnus, László Kőszeghy (PhD 2025), is the curriculum manager of the philosophy, classical languages, and (as part of a team) theory of knowledge courses of the International Baccalaureate’s Diploma Program.
Managing curriculum reviews at the IB is a future-oriented, research-based and collaborative process, relying on feedback from educators, students, alumni, and experts, and aimed at producing guides and support materials which gives students the agency to take ownership of their own learning, flourish and create a more peaceful world.
October 18, 2024
Our alumnus Zhiwei Gu (PhD 2020) was awarded the position of “Young Associate Research Fellow”, equivalent to assistant professor, at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai. Congratulations, Zhiwei!
October 16, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that our alumna Nevim Borçin's (PhD 2023) project, Ethical Methodology in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, has been awarded the ESPRIT grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds). Starting in 2025, she will hold this fellowship at the University of Vienna over the next three years in collaboration with Prof. George Karamanolis.
July 1, 2024
Our former MA student Pranav Ambardekar successfully defends his PhD thesis at Ohio State University
Our alumnus, Pranav Ambardekar (MA 2018), recently graduated from the PhD program at Ohio State philosophy. He defended his dissertation entitled "The Epistemology of Reflection" under the supervision of Declan Smithies, and with Hilary Kornblith, Tristram McPherson, and Abraham Roth as committee members. Congratulations, Dr. Ambardekar!
Starting this fall, he will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Critical Thinking at FLAME University in Pune, India.
February 13, 2024
Olesya Bondarenko (MA 2017) successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled "Tempering the Ambition of Social Science Genomics: Causation, Explanation, and Evidence for Policy" on 12 January 2024 at the University of Cambridge. Congratulations, Dr. Bondarenko!
February 12, 2024
Mykola Bakaiev (MA 2019) successfully defended his PhD thesis "Explanation and Understanding in Postanalytic Philosophy of History" on 22nd January at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Congratulations, Dr. Bakaiev!
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February 12, 2024
Michele Luchetti (PhD 2020), currently a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, was granted an ERC Preparative Fellowship at the University of Bielefeld. Michele will join the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science in April 2024 to develop an ERC starting grant application with the title "Towards a History and Philosophy of Performativity in Medical Research, Education and Practice."
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