Welcome to the Department of Philosophy, at Brown University.

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Department News

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Nina Emery has agreed to join our faculty, beginning in the Fall of 2013.

The Department congratulates Eoin Ryan, one of our graduate students, for receiving Honorable Mention in the annual selection for the Reginald D Archambault Award for Teaching Excellence. Eoin was recognized for his "enthusiasm and approach to teaching 'To Be Human: Minds, Robots, Clones, and Zombies'".

Congratulations to Richard Heck, whose first book, Frege's Theorem, has been published by Oxford University Press.

Congratulations to Katherine Rubin Jarvis, who successfully defended her dissertation, Towards an Anti-Permissive Epistemology, in November 2011.

Detailed information on our PhDs' placement record is now available on this site.

Contacts

Inquiries regarding graduate admissions should be directed to the Graduate School and not to the Director of Graduate Studies. The Director of Graduate Studies is responsible only for the Graduate Program, and plays no special role in the admissions processs.

Chair: Bernard Reginster

Director of Graduate Studies: Christopher Hill

Concentration Advisors:

• Richard Heck (Standard Concentration)
• Felicia Nimue Ackerman (Ethics and Political Philosophy)
• Josh Schechter (Logic and Philosophy of Science, Physics and Philosophy)

Mailing address: Box 1918, Brown University, Providence RI 02912
For deliveries: 54 College St, Providence RI 02912