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Congratulations to undergraduate major Kevin Dorst!

We are delighted to welcome to the department Anya Plutynski, who joins as an Associate Professor, and Marta Halina, a new PNP postdoc.
Charlie Kurth has received a Faculty Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities at Wash U for the Spring of 2014.

John Doris has been awarded a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where he will be in residence for Spring term, 2014.
Julia Driver has accepted an invitation to become a Co-Editor of Nous.

Symposium: Finding Humanity in Advanced Dementia
Kevin Dorst has won this year's undergraduate competition for the Helen Stenner Memorial Essay Prize for his paper "Consequentialization and the Structure of Morality."
Stenner Essay Contest Winners
Lauren Olin is the winner of this year's Helen Stenner Memorial Essay Prize for her paper "Burge on Perception and Sensation." 
Congratulations to Carl Craver on his promotion to Full Professor!
PNP Graduate Student, Lauren Olin, publishes an article in a leading journal!

Philosophical Studies publishes Lauren Olin.
New publication by Ron Mallon "Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings"
2013 NEH Seminar: Metaphysics and Mind

The Department will be hosting and John heil directing an NEH Summer Seminar (June 10-July 12, 2013): Metaphysics and Mind.
Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap.
The Cambridge Companion to Quine (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press

The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of W.V. Quine's philosophy.
Perspectives on Quine (Philosophers and their Critics)
Wiley-Blackwell

Perspectives on Quine, now available in paperback, is a collection of twenty-one new essays dealing with the thought of America's most distinguished living philosopher, Willard Van Orman...
Lauren Olin has been chosen as one of the winners of the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence for 2012-2013.

This award recognizes superb performance by a graduate teaching assistant in the instruction of Arts & Sciences undergraduates.Each Graduate Arts & Sciences department is invited to...
Tyler Paytas has won the Ben Floyd-Clapman award for teaching excellence in Philosophy.
Congratulations to John Doris and Eric Brown for being recognized by the Graduate Student Senate for their outstanding mentoring of graduate students.
Brandon Towl is coeditor of 4 volume set "Philosophy of Psychology"
Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes
2007, David R Godine; Revised edition

Descartes is the philosophical architect of our modern world.

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