Welcome to the Department of Philosophy, at Brown University.

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Department News

We're Moving!

Some time in mid-June, the Philosophy Department will be moving from its present home in Gerard House to Corliss-Brackett House, which was built in 1875 by the inventor George Henry Corliss. The building, which is now on the US National Register of Historic Places, was previously the Admissions Office. So please come find us in our new digs!

Completed Dissertations

Congratulations to Derek Bowman, Matthew Konig, Katia Samoilova, and Vlad Vlaovic, who have all successfully defended their dissertations this April. Bowman's dissertation was entitled Utopian Models and the Ideal Theory Debate; Konig's, Taking Seriously the Metaphysics of Mental Causation: A Nonreductivist Account; Samoilova's, The Case for Pluralism About Introspection; and Vlaovic's Normative Reality: Heavy-Duty Realism and the Expressivist Challenge.

Ethical Inquiry

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the formation of the center for Ethical Inquiry. Its mission is to foster philosophical inquiry into the "good life" in a manner broadly inspired by the form this inquiry assumed in ancient Greek philosophy (paradigmatically in Stoic philosophy).

Alexandra King Named Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow

Congratulations to Alexandra King, who has been named Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow for 2013-14. For more information, please see the press release.

Recent Books

Congratulations to Mary Louise Gill, whose book Philosophos: Plato's Missing Dialogue, has been published by Oxford University Press; to Richard Heck, whose book Reading Frege's Grundgesetze has also been published by Oxford University Press; and to Charles Larmore, whose book Vernuft und Subjektivität has been published by Surkhamp.

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

Director of Undergraduate Students: Justin Broackes

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