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Tim Crane Joins the Department of Philosophy

May 27, 2016
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The Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce a new appointment: starting with the academic year 2017-18, Tim Crane will join the department, in the rank of full professor.

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Summary of the Workshop, The Values of Liberal Democracy: Themes from Joseph Raz's Political Philosophy

April 21, 2016
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On 15–16 April, the Departments of Philosophy and of Political Science hosted a workshop on ‘The Values of Liberal Democracy: Themes from Joseph Raz’s Political Philosophy’. Although the workshop celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of The Morality of Freedom, the scope of the conference was broader, honoring Raz’s contributions to political philosophy more generally.

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Report on the Conference, “Dehumanization: New Approaches to the Politics of Human Nature”

April 20, 2016
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A group of international and local experts from history, law, social psychology, art, and philosophy met at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archive on Apr 6–8, to discuss dehumanization: regarding, depicting or treating some people as ‘less human’ than others.

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Summary of the 6th International Graduate Conference, "Worldly Matters: Issues in Applied and Socially Engaged Philosophy"

April 11, 2016
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The Department of Philosophy hosted its 6th International Graduate Conference on April 1-2 with great success. The biennial IGC marks an important event in the Department’s life, which is traditionally organized by doctoral students and involves the engagement of both faculty and students acting as reviewers, commenters and helpers.

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Alumna Mojca Küplen has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

February 12, 2016
Alumni
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Our alumna Mojca Küplen has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Mojca has previously held the position of an Assistant Research Fellow at the Philosophy Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Congratulations, Mojca!

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