Marco Forgione receives postdoc at Milan
Congratulations Marco! The postdoc is at the University of Milan in the research group "Proteus: Paradoxes and Metaphors of Time in Early Universe(s)"
Dustin Sigsbee wins Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship!
Congratulations to Dustin Sigsbee who has been selected as one of new Bilinksi Foundation Fellows for 2022.
Stewart defends her PhD: Alexa, Should I Trust You? A Theory of Trustworthiness for Artificial Intelligence
Congratulations to Lizzy Stewart who recently defended her dissertation on trustworthiness and AI.
Jim Stewart wins South Carolina Society for Philosophy prize
Congratulations to Jim Stewart for winning the SCSP award for the "Best Paper by a Graduate Student" at the 2022 joint meeting of the SCSP & NCPS at Converse University.
Forgione defends his PhD:
Congratulations to Marco Forgione who recently defended his thesis on Richard Feynman's view of spacetime
Lynne Taylor to attend the University of South Florida
Congratulations to Lynne Taylor! She has been accepted to, and plans on attending, graduate school in philosophy at the University of South Florida this coming Fall.
Graduate admissions deadline February 15th!
The department of philosophy has extended its deadline and will now be accepting applications until February 15th
Grace Regnier awarded Scholarship to Oxford
Congratulations to Grace Regnier! Senior philosophy major Grace Regnier has been awarded the John & Daria Barry Scholarship to Oxford!
Samuel Miller-Poling to attend Emory Law
Congratulations to Samuel Miller-Poling! He has been accepted to, and plans on attending, Emory's School of Law this coming Fall
2021 Graduate student awards
Congratulations to Marco Forgione, Dustin Sigsbee and Apurva Parikh!
Avery Kral will study History & Philosophy of Science at Cambridge
Congratulations to Avery Kral! Before heading to Cambridge next year, this summer Avery will study Biblical Hebrew with Harvard Divinity School.
Michael Stöltzner wins Russell Research Award
Congratulations Michael Stöltzner! Professor Stöltzner has won the U of SC Russell Award for Humanities and Social Science!
U of SC MAP Diversity Roundtable at SCSP
The U of SC MAP Chapter will be participating in a panel at the SCSP Conference this week to discussing issues of diversity in academic philosophy from the perspective of undergraduates in the department.
Clyde LeMoine has Been Awarded the DAAD Study Scholarship!
Congratulations Clyde! The prestigious DAAD study Scholarship provides full financial support for masters studies in Germany.
Danne defends his PhD: Mathematical Realism from Reflectance Physicalism
Congratulations to Nicholas Danne on his defense of his dissertation and his recent publication of "How to make reflectance a surface property"
Weinberg on Enemies with Benefits: Live @ the Library
Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2021, 4 - 4:30 p.m. @UofSCLibraries Instagram Live
Jeremy Weissman, UofSC philosophy PhD, publishes new book!
The book is titled "Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media" and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Awards
The Philosophy Department has awarded its annual undergraduate Philosophy Awards. Congratulations to the winners!
Philosophy Department joins SRPoiSE
The Philosophy Department and the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society are now institutional members of the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering.
New co-editor-in-chief, Journal of Pragmatics
Anne Bezuidenhout has been appointed co-editor-in-chief at the Journal of Pragmatics. She joins Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, Netherlands), who has served as co-editor-in-chief since 2017.
Chris Tollefsen edits collection by Joseph Boyle
Chris Tollefsen has co-edited a volume of essays by the late philosopher Joseph Boyle. It is titled Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice: A Joseph Boyle Reader.
Welcome to new faculty member Agnes Bolinska!
We are thrilled to be joined this year by new faculty member Agnes Bolinska.
New Roger Bacon Research Society
Jerry Hackett is the founding president of the new Roger Bacon Research Society.
Gene Long, 1935-2020
Emeritus faculty member Jerry Wallulis offers some thoughts about our former colleague, Gene Long.
Congratulations to Michael Stoeltzner
'Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider' project is renewed.