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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!

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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.

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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. 

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Winners of the 2024 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

June 20, 2024
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Every year, CEU awards its students who achieve the best GPA for their coursework in their department. Congratulations to Brylea Hollinshead and Sebastian Engler who received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award 2024 in philosophy!

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The CEU Department of Philosophy Mourns the Loss of Nenad Miščević

May 15, 2024
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The Department is deeply saddened by the death of Nenad Miščević at the age of 74. Nenad was affiliated with CEU for more than 20 years, first as the director of the Philosophy Doctoral Support program, then, following the establishment of the Department of Philosophy in 2000, as a visiting professor. Nenad was a larger-than-life figure with an entirely unique intellect. He had an astonishing breadth of knowledge, in analytic as well as continental philosophy, as well as in history, politics, natural science and many other things.

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