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PhD Award Recipients

February 7, 2025

The PhD 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. The awardees have been selected by the University Doctoral Committee.  

Congratulations to Denis Kazankov and Emanuele Tullio who received the 2025 Advanced PhD Award, and to Balint Bekefi and Swithin Thomas who split the 2025 First-Year PhD Award.

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.