Many congratulations to Manasa Gopakumer on winning the highly competitive Temple Graduate School Summer Research Grant!
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We had a number of placements out of Temple philosophy department that we would like to acknowledge in this thread!
Congratulations to Hans Shenk, winner of the 2026 Temple Philosophy Graduate Student Service Award, awarded in recognition of Hans' exemplary record of service in the department.
Congratulations to graduating Philosophy majors Andreas Carleton, Gabija Stewart, and Jada Lenore Wilson, who were honored at the CLA Baccalaureate Award Ceremony! We're so proud of you, and we wish you the best of luck!
This year many of our undergraduates have had papers accepted for presentation at the GPPC Undergraduate Conference at the University of Delaware. Many congratulations to: Steven King, Dee Toor, Jada Wilson, Eisha Nair, and Andreas Carleton!
Congratulations to Temple philosophy PhD candidate Eli Benjamin who has accepted a post-doc position at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. He will be joining their research cohort for the 2026–2027 academic year. (More information in replies).
We are pleased to share that Professor Hammer recently had a conversation with Antonio Carlos Ruiz Soria on Lived Temporality and the Theory of Time as Creation. The conversation is linked below: www.linkedin.com/pulse/conver...
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We're delighted to welcome Dr. Rachana Kamtekar, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell to give a talk as part of Temple philosophy department's Colloquium series.
Many congratulations to Temple Philosophy PhD Candidate Hans Shenk for being awarded by the APA with a Sanders Graduate Award! His is essay entitled: Revisiting Hornsby and Stanley: In Defense of Productive Practical Knowledge.
We are pleased to announce Yuewen Chen as the recipient of the 2025 Nordev Award! He has received this award for his outstanding essay: “Aristotle on How Pleasure Perfects Activity.” The Nordev Prize was endowed for the best paper in philosophy written by a graduate student. Congratulations Yuewen!
Congratulations to Professor Espen Hammer who has co-authored a book with Professor Fred Rush titled: The Routledge Guidebook to Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. The book is being published by Routledge and will be available on October 27th. Link to the book in the replies.
Professor Espen Hammer will discuss his new book After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche with scholars Donovan Schaefer, Jeffrey Green, Sabina Bremner, and Daniele Lorenzini at the University of Pennsylvania. All are welcome to attend!
Congratulations to Associate Professor Eugene Chislenko for winning the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy! You can read more about his accomplishment here: iseethics.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/2...
2025 winner of the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy
The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) is pleased to announce publicly the 2025 winner of the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy. This year’s Andrew Lig…
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Many congratulations to PhD candidate Eli Benjamin Israel on his recent publication "Navigating vagueness: Rule-following and the scope of trust" in The Philosophical Quarterly. You can read a preprint of his paper on PhilPapers at the link below: philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR
Eli Benjamin Israel, Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust - PhilPapers
In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside explicitly defined expectations. I argue that this ...
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Congratulations to PhD Candidate Arthur Krieger for his recent publication "Benzos (as) needed: research into as-needed and intermittent benzodiazepines for anxiety is required for comprehensive best prescribing practices" in Frontiers in Psychiatry. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Temple Philosophy PhD candidate Eli Israel recently published a blogpost on the blog of the APA, reflecting on his experience as a member (and current chair) of the APA Graduate Student Council, and offering an enthusiastic endorsement of service work for the good of the profession.
Reflections on Service, the Profession, and the Graduate Student Council
“Service” is a tricky category in a grad student's career planning. The general advice one gets usually says to keep it to a minimum and focus on your dissertation. This is not all bad advice, but it ...
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A reminder that the 2025 Beardsley Lecture at the Barnes Foundation is this Friday, April 25, 2025. We are honored to be joined by Professor Gary L. Hagberg of Bard College who will be speaking on "The Metaphorical Lens"
We're delighted to serve as hosts for the 2025 Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium @thegppc.bsky.social Undergraduate Conference this Saturday, April 26.
We're looking forward to University of Pennsylvania Philosopher Quayshawn Spencer's presentation at the Temple University Science, Technology and Society Network, coming up on Monday, April 14, 12-1pm in the Charles Library First Floor Event Space.
We're delighted to be cohosting this conference with the University of Glasgow School of Law, and we're grateful that the GPPC and others see the value in thinking carefully and clearly about this topic right now.
The GPPC@thegppc.bsky.social · last yr.Later this week, March 28-30, the GPPC is co-sponsoring a conference at Temple U. on "Constitutional Democracy in Crisis." Co-hosted by the Philosophy Department at Temple and the University of Glasgow School of Law. More information here: sites.temple.edu/crisis/sched...
Assistant Professor @brianhutler.bsky.social in the blog of the APA, writing about his recent work about hospital relocation and indirect discrimination. blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/21/h...
History, Hospitals, and Health Disparities
In the early days of COVID-19, I was a bioethics fellow at Johns Hopkins, and I became involved with several efforts to evaluate the ethics of the pandemic response. One thing that immediately stood o...
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We're grateful for this excellent coverage from The Temple News of the recent interactive AI fair we cohosted with other departments. Find some great quotes from @brianhutler.bsky.social in the article below. temple-news.com/interactive-...
Interactive AI fair sparks crucial conversations - The Temple News
This week’s AI Fair at Charles Library encouraged dialogue with a diverse group of attendees exploring the future of artificial intelligence.
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We're delighted to welcome Dr. Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at MIT as our 2024-2025 Distinguished Speaker. As part of her visit, Dr. Haslanger will present a public lecture "Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care" from 3-5 p.m. in Mazur Hall 821.
📑Lee-Ann Chae reflects on way we generally speak to children about war & killing, with stories of #badguys whom it is necessary to kill, & concludes we must learn to tell different stories if we are to better prepare children to seek genuine #peace: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
Kicking off 2025 with some good news - Very proud to share that my paper "Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust" is now forthcoming in the Philosophical Quarterly! philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR
Eli Benjamin Israel, Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust - PhilPapers
In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside explicitly defined expectations. I argue that this ...
philpapers.org
We're excited to cohost Temple's Interactive AI Fair February 25-26. @brianhutler.bsky.social and Eli Alshanetsky are representing the department on an interdisciplinary organizing committee. You can find more information at sites.temple.edu/fair/
Brian Hutler@brianhutler.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to be hosting an Interactive AI Fair @temple.edu Feb 25-26! Check it out: sites.temple.edu/fair/
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