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PhD award winners 2023

February 22, 2023
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We are delighted to announce that the University Doctoral Committee has awarded the achievements of the following doctoral philosophy students.

Advanced PhD Award

Hongkai Yin

Laszlo Koszeghy

First-Year PhD Award

Emanuele Tullio

 

These doctoral awards recognize outstanding performance in research in the case of advanced students, and in coursework and comprehensive exams in the case of first-year students.

 

Congratulations!

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Successful Defense of Ruben Noorloos

December 21, 2022
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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the successful defense of the PhD Dissertation by

Ruben Noorloos
on
Mind-Body Parallelism and Spinoza’s Philosophy of Mind

Members of the Defense Committee:

Supervisor: Michael Griffin (CEU) 

External examiner: Martin Lin (Rutgers University) 

Internal Examiner: Katalin Farkas (CEU) 

Chair: Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU) 

The defense was held on 15 December 2022.

Congratulations, Dr. Noorloos!

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Successful Defense of Nikhil Mahant

December 21, 2022
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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the successful defense of the PhD Dissertation by

Nikhil Mahant
on
Names are Words

Members of the Defense Committee:

Supervisor: Tim Crane (CEU)

External examiner: Zoltan Szabo (Yale University)

Internal Examiner: Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU)

Chair: Michael Griffin (CEU)

The defense was held on 19 December 2022.

Congratulations, Dr. Mahant!

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Raza Khan Prize Winners 2022

June 29, 2022
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We are happy to announce the winners of the 2022 Raza Khan Prize.

After due consideration, the committee decided to award the prize to Pelin Kasar (2-yr MA) for her paper "The Active Unconscious: The Limits of the Extended Mind," and to Swithin Thomas (2 -yr MA) for his paper "Lucid dreams are not dreams."

You can find the abstracts here.

Congratulations to the winners!

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Winners of the 2022 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

June 23, 2022
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Every year, CEU awards its students who achieve the best GPA for their coursework in their program. Congratulations to Andy King, Swithin Thomas, Anton Dolmatov and Sam Geiger who got the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award 2022 in philosophy!

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