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3.28.25

Dr Anya Plutynski receives an ACSL fellowship for 2025-2026 School Year

3.17.25

Congratulations Gabriel Siegel

3.7.25

Remembering and imagining as attitudes

3.5.25

Alumni Mark Povich releases Book

3.5.25

Chain Reaction

2.17.25

In Memoriam: Joe Ullian

2.5.25

"On the Factivity Problem for Contextualism"

1.28.25

Why is Pain Bad?

12.19.24

Auke Montessori's Paper Accepted for Publication in Philosophical Studies

12.12.24

Graham Curtiss-Rowlands "Are Prudential reasons just moral reasons?"

10.17.24

Alex Wentzell's Paper Published

8.19.24

“Scientific Understanding as Narrative Intelligibility”

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7.31.24

2024 Summer Philosophy Academy

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5.16.24

Jordan Shaw defends "Sex/Gender Is Self-Identified"

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5.15.24

WashU Philosophers at SPP 2024

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5.6.24

"Prison Violence as Punishment" accepted for publication at Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

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5.1.24

Auke Montessori's "Overlap: On the Relation Between Perceiving and Believing" to appear in Synthese

4.23.24

Mason Westfall to Johns Hopkins

4.23.24

Amanda Evans to Pittsburgh

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4.6.24

Civil Society Brunch series continues with a lecture on the significance of elections

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3.29.24

Judith Carlisle defends "What is Trauma? From Science to Social Justice"

3.28.24

Dinner & Dialogue series launches with a conversation on political violence

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3.26.24

Judith Carlisle to University of Tennessee

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3.23.24

Will Bell defends "On the Enforceability of Rights"

3.13.24

David Kinney to WashU

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3.5.24

WashU Philosophers at SSPP 2024

3.5.24

A Young Artist Fleshes Out Philosophy

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3.4.24

Judith Carlisle wins 2024 Stenner graduate prize

2.29.24

Danielle Williams on the history of AI

2.28.24

Alex Cunningham's “Epistemically Hypocritical Blame” to appear in Episteme

2.9.24

Peace of mind: The science and philosophy of mental health

2.7.24

WashU Philosophers at the 2024 Central APA

2.7.24

Unlocking the Power: Why You Should Consider Hiring Philosophy Graduates

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2.7.24

Will Bell's "Rights Reclamation" to appear in Philosophical Studies

2.6.24

The art of philosophy

2.2.24

Christopher Colacchia defends "Emotions that Feel Bad are Bad"

2.1.24

Eric Brown on The Dangerous Game of Persuasion

1.25.24

Eric Brown publishes piece on persuasion in ancient Greece in The Common Reader

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1.21.24

Marina DiMarco to WashU

12.1.23

In Memoriam: Mark Rollins

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11.13.23

Graham Renz on Being Yourself in Grad School

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6.15.23

Graham Renz's "Forms Are Not Emergent Powers" to appear in Inquiry

6.9.23

Maria Waggoner defends "The Vices of Virtues"

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5.29.23

Graham Renz to Marian University

5.1.23

Alex Wentzell awarded SSHRC Fellowship

4.14.23

Congratulations! Zoe Jenkin

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4.13.23

Jeremy Henry defends "Socrates the Expert"

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4.3.23

Graham Renz defends "Painless Hylomorphism"

3.22.23

Siegel and Craver's "Phenomenal Laws and Mechanistic Explanations" to appear in Philosophy of Science

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3.22.23

Derek Braverman contributes to Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health

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3.21.23

WashU Philosophy at the 2023 Pacific APA

3.14.23

Maria Waggoner to Purdue

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3.8.23

Santosh and Plutynski to contribute to volume debunking myths about Darwin

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3.7.23

WashU Philosophers at SSPP 2023

3.1.23

Alex Cunningham wins 2023 Stenner Essay Prize

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3.1.23

Graham Renz's "Do Substances Have Formal Parts?" to appear in Analytic Philosophy

2.28.23

On the set of ‘I Think You Should Leave’

2.13.23

PNP PhD students at the 2023 Central APA

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12.30.22

WashU Philosophers at the 2023 Eastern APA

12.27.22

Will Bell and Graham Renz's "Why There Is No Obligation to Love God" to appear in Religious Studies

11.14.22

Gabe Siegel's "Perceptual Modes of Presentation as Object Files" to appear in Erkenntnis

10.27.22

Philosophy Student: Dean's Distinguished Graduate Fellows

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10.20.22

Judith Carlisle recognized by Arts & Sciences for research on trauma

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9.14.22

James Gulledge defends "Perceptual Experience, Representation, and the Environment"

9.1.22

Washington University Review of Philosophy Vol. 2

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8.17.22

Xiaoyu Ke defends "Making Emotions Trustworthy"

8.4.22

One researcher’s artifact is another’s result

7.11.22

Jon Kvanvig's Book Reviewed

6.15.22

Welcome 2022-2023 McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellows

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5.5.22

Ben Henke to Antwerp

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5.5.22

Judith Carlisle to contribute to Routledge volume on implicit cognition

5.3.22

Olivia Poolos Work Recognized in "College Podcast Challenge"

4.27.22

Undergraduate Olivia Dres wins NEXT Award

3.28.22

Ron Mallon Awarded Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award

3.28.22

Nishi Luthra Award

3.4.22

Carl Craver wins National Science Foundation Grant

3.3.22

2022 Helen Stenner Memorial Prize

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2.14.22

Maria Doulatova to St. Norbert College

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2.10.22

WashU Philosophers at the Central APA

2.7.22

Ian Tully to Duquesne University

12.29.21

Hawkeye Award

12.29.21

"St. Louis on the Air" Interview and StL Public Radio Article featuring History Major Nkemjika Emenike '23, and Prof. Iver Bernstein

12.10.21

Helen Stenner Memorial Essay Prize Competition

Final Poster Undergrad Bioethics
12.10.21

Bioethics Undergrad Class Final Posters Fall 2021

11.9.21

Knowing what we know

Rick Shang
8.23.21

Rick Shang defends "Positron Emission Tomography from 1930 to 1990"

8.17.21

Maria Waggoner publishes "The Focus of Virtue"

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8.17.21

Ben Henke defends "The Disunity of Perception"

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8.17.21

Ge Fang awarded Sawyler Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship

5.26.21

Dennis Des Chene Retires

Fall on WashU Campus
5.25.21

Philosophy Seniors Head to Graduate Programs

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5.19.21

Anya Plutynski wins the 2021 Lakatos Award

5.13.21

Connor Warshauer receives 2021 Nishi Luthra Award

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4.26.21

Emily Prychitko Defends "Event Perception"

4.22.21

Maria Altepeter awarded Society of Christian Philosophers Graduate Student Cross-Training Fellowship

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4.19.21

Judith Carlisle awarded $5,000 for Divided City Summer Research Grant proposal, “Trauma, Segregation, and Racial Violence”

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4.19.21

Maria Doulatova Defends "The Feeling Mind"

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3.12.21

Will Bell awarded 2021 Stenner Memorial Essay Prize for Graduates

3.12.21

Kevin Jia awarded 2021 Stenner Memorial Essay Prize for Undergraduates

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3.11.21

Seeking Applications for McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

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3.9.21

Ben Henke to University of Haifa Postdoc

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3.9.21

Ben Henke wins Neuroscience and Philosophy Essay Prize

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3.5.21

Cameron Evans Defends "Oppression and the Limits of Individual Moral Progress"

Fall on WashU campus
1.11.21

PNP Graduate Students to Present at Central APA 2021

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1.11.21

Ben Henke Presents at Eastern APA 2021

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12.8.20

Graham Renz publishes "What is Gods Power?" and "The Five-Category Ontology? E.J. Lowe and the Ontology of the Divine"

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11.17.20

Allan Hazlett Interviewed by Center For Humanities

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9.23.20

Maria Doulatova publishes "Emotion's Role in the Unity of Consciousness" in Philosophical Psychology

8.5.20

Ian Tully to Johns Hopkins

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8.5.20

Anya Plutynski Elected to Governing Board of PSA

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6.30.20

Anne Margaret Baxley Interview with Cliff Sosis

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5.29.20

Mark Rollins Retires

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5.29.20

Claude Evans Retires

5.15.20

To the Class of 2020

5.8.20

Congratulations to Dr. Christiane Merritt!

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5.8.20

Maria Doulatova awarded 2020 Stenner Prize for Graduates

5.8.20

Alice Xu awarded 2020 Stenner Prize for Undergraduates

5.4.20

Tim Youd Will Retype William Gass' Mammoth 'The Tunnel' On Livestream

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5.1.20

Nick Schuster to ANU postdoc

4.29.20

Welcome new McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellows!

4.28.20

Jamie Reiner and Alec Johnson receive 2020 Nishi Luthra Award

4.24.20

Final Colloquium of the year held online

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4.22.20

Congratulations to Dr. Nick Schuster!

3.10.20

Joining our faculty in Fall 2020 - Lori Watson and Rebecca Copenhaver

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3.4.20

Graham Renz publishes "'Assessing Recent Agent-Based Approaches to Right-Action (and More)"

2.14.20

Midwest Memory Mayhem in Ampersand

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1.15.20

Graham Renz publishes "Hylomorphism and Complex Properties"

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1.6.20

Nick Schuster publishes "Complex Harmony: Rethinking the Virtue-Continence Distinction"

12.18.19

Casey O'Callaghan publishes "A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception" with Oxford University Press

10.30.19

Joining our faculty in Fall 2020 - Zoe Jenkin and Jake Quilty-Dunn

10.1.19

Closed - Openings for Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor (three positions)

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10.1.19

Obituary: Richard "Red" Watson, emeritus professor of philosophy, 88

9.11.19

Gracey Belote and Judith Carlisle Recognized by the Teaching Center

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8.30.19

Will Fleisher publishes "Endorsement and Assertion"

8.23.19

Mark Povich to Tulane University

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8.14.19

Nick Schuster awarded Young Ethicist Prize at Twelfth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress

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6.20.19

Maria Doulatova publishes "Tracking Intentionalism and the Phenomenology of Mental Effort"

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4.29.19

Kate Schmidt to MSU Denver

4.18.19

Ethan Kerns receives 2019 Nishi Luthra Award

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4.10.19

Ben Henke awarded 2019 Stenner Prize for Graduates

4.10.19

Patrick Chandler awarded 2019 Stenner Prize for Undergraduates

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3.28.19

Katie Rapier to Boston College

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3.11.19

Emily Prychitko publishes "The causal situationist account of constitutive relevance"

2.13.19

PNP Ph.D. Santiago Amaya has received a US$1.2 million grant for a project on Free Will in Latin America

2.13.19

Nathan Adams hired by University of Virginia

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2.1.19

Will Bell publishes "God Hidden from God"

5.24.18

Julia Driver elected Vice President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association

4.20.18

WashU Philosopher Bill Gass profiled in St. Louis Magazine by Mark Rollins

4.5.18

Congratulations to Annalise Wagner

4.5.18

John Heil awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

3.14.18

Congratulations to Winners of the 2018 Stenner Memorial Essay Competition!

2.23.18

Congratulations to Kate Schmidt 3-Minute Thesis GSS Award Winner!

2.9.18

Julia Driver to be Editor of "Ethics"

1.25.18

Congratulations to Dee Stewart!

1.18.18

A Wall Street Giant Makes a $75 Million Bet on Academic Philosophy

12.11.17

Congratulations to Ian Tully!

12.8.17

In Memoriam, William H. Gass

9.18.17

Ian Tully's articles have been accepted for publication

9.7.17

Ron Mallon wins American Philosophical Association award

8.16.17

Ron Mallon's interview by Tania Lombrozo with NPR

8.8.17

Eric Brown Receives Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award

8.2.17

Mark Povich's article has been accepted for publication

8.2.17

Joseph McCaffrey and David Danks' paper has been accepted for publication

5.26.17

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Malanowski

5.5.17

Allan Hazlett will be joining our faculty in the Fall of 2017

4.24.17

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Christensen

4.3.17

Zaria Noble Receives Ralph Bunche Scholars Award

3.27.17

Congratulations to Carl Craver, winner of the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award

3.22.17

In Memorium: Bob Barrett

3.10.17

Congratulations Dr. Mark Povich!

3.8.17

Congratulations to winners of the Stenner Memorial Essay Competition

2.27.17

David Rose, Rutgers University, joins the PNP in Fall 2017

2.25.17

Nich Baima accepts Assistant Professorship

2.10.17

Mike Dacey, PNP PhD. 2015 has accepted tenure track professorship at Bates College

2.7.17

John Heil, editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, wins 2017 Prose Award

12.15.16

Casey O’Callaghan has been awarded a (NEH) Fellowship for “A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception”.

9.21.16

Wash U undergraduate Philosophy alumnus, Ben Westhoff, has just published a new book with Hachette Books

8.23.16

Philosophia, WashU's undergraduate Philosophy club, will hold its first meeting for the year.