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Assistant Professorship at Fudan University awarded to our alumnus Zhiwei Gu

Prof. Zhiwei Gu, Photo by Damjan Aleksiev

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!

Our alumna Nevim Borçin receives FWF's ESPRIT grant

October 16, 2024
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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.

Successful Defense of Yavuz Basoglu

September 9, 2024
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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the successful defense of the PhD Dissertation by

Yavuz Basoglu

on

Essays on High-Level Perception

 

Supervisor: Katalin Farkas

External examiner: Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)

External examiner: Tom McClelland (University of Cambridge)

Chair: Michael V. Griffin

Congratulations, Dr. Basoglu!

New publication by our PhD student Liam Ryan

August 12, 2024
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Synthese has just published our PhD student Liam Ryan's article "Credo in unam credentiam: religious beliefs are standard beliefs." You can read the article here.

Our former MA student Pranav Ambardekar successfully defends his PhD thesis at Ohio State University

July 1, 2024
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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.