As a result of the spike in covid-19 cases in our region, the Department of Philosophy will, starting on Nov. 18, be staffed in person Wednesdays from 9:00am-1:00 pm. Assistance will be available by email and telephone 9:00 am to 5 pm Mon.-Fri. Department Coordinator, Louise Gilman; Skinner 1120A; 301-405-5689; lgilman@umd.edu Business Manager, Antoinette Lancaster, Skinner 1121A; aallen13@umd.edu
The Department of Philosophy will be staffed in person 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Mon.-Thurs. Assistance will be available by email and telephone 9:00 am to 5 pm Mon.-Fri. Department Coordinator, Louise Gilman; Skinner 1120A; 301-405-5689; lgilman@umd.edu Business Manager, Antoinette Lancaster, Skinner 1121A; aallen13@umd.edu
You can read more about the appointment here.
We welcome the newly formed Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapter at the University of Maryland, College Park! For the Fall 2020 term, MAP will be hosting a bi-weekly reading group on Philosophy of Race and Racism, a virtual workshop for undergraduates looking to apply to graduate school this Fall, and virtual happy hours for graduate students. You can contact the chapter representatives to find out more about MAP’s events and mission at MAPterps@umd.edu
During fall 2020, all undergraduate advising will occur remotely. Please email philadv@umd.edu with questions or to schedule a virtual appointment.
The Department is delighted to announce that Ruth Kastner, who received her PhD from us in 1999, is a recipient of the 2021 Research Award from the UMD Alumni Association. The award is for alumni whose research has made a significant contribution to society. Through her work, Ruth has become the leading defender of the Transactional Interpretation of quantum mechanics. Her publications include a major book (The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Reality of Possibility, Cambridge University Press) and a long list of peer-reviewed publications on a variety of topics in the foundations of physics. Ruth is also the founder and president of a nascent non-profit research institute, The Quantum Institute.
Congratulations to Julius, who has a tenure-track position in philosophy at Peking University in Beijing, starting in November 2019.
Fabrizio Cariani (http://cariani.org) will start as an associate professor in Fall 2020.
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Javiera Perez-Gomez who will become Assistant Professor of Philosophy at MSU Denver in fall 2019.
Paolo Santorio (http://paolosantorio.net/) will start as an associate professor in Fall 2019.
Moonyoung Song will be the first ASA Postdoctoral Fellow. She will work at the University of Michigan with Professor Peter Railton.
Kelsey Gipe, who earned her PhD in 2018, will be the 2019-2020 Clinical Ethics Fellow at Sutter Health’s Program in Medicine and Human Values in San Francisco.
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow Jeremy Reid who will take up a position as Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University, starting in the Spring of 2020.
Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement) selected by Forbes as best quantum physics book of 2018 and included in Symmetry's list of notable physics books of 2018.
Congratulations to Dr. Lopez who will begin as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Susquehanna University in fall 2017.
Julius Schoenherr won for his paper "When Forgiveness Comes Easy" submitted to the APA Eastern Division.
Peter Carruthers has earned the highest appointment bestowed on tenured faculty at UMD.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will fund a year of Knox's doctoral research at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Turner wins the ARHU Dean's Senior Scholar Award.
Sicilia has been awarded a Coro Fellowship and has been admitted to the UCSD's Summer Program for Women in Philosophy
Jeff Horty was awarded for "Reasoning with Dimensions and Magnitudes" at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
The UMD Graduate School will support his dissertation writing next fall.
Congratulations to Harjit Bhogal who won the 2018 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics (and $10,000)!
Quinn is presenting two posters at the conference West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 36: "Reporting Modal Beliefs" and "Epistemic Uses of "Likely" and "Might" Are Only Indirectly So" (with Alexander Williams)
Gavri, an undergraduate Philosophy major, was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan for the 2017-18 academic year.
A campus-wide initiative exploring the central role of public education in the development of American democracy. See dtn.umd.edu for more information.
Transitivity of Sentences and Scenes in Early Language Development (#BCS-1551629): The project is directed at the claim that very young children take transitive sentences to describe events viewed as having two participants. It asks whether children reliably view their world in these terms, and considers several problem cases.
Cindy Phillips is visiting scholar at University of Edinburgh Law school from March to July. She will be presenting a paper on the function of law during the seminar series.
Sue Dwyer was named executive director of the Honors College. The full story is available at http://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/umd-names-susan-j-dwyer-executive-director-honors-college.
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