Philosophy Department - Miami University Ohio

12/19/2019

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This report for academic year 2019/20 divides graduate programs into the two categories indicated below. Strongly Recommended departments have indications that graduate students will be encouraged and supported to pursue work in this area, will find a supportive community of scholars and mentors, an...

02/01/2016

This woman is a student of one of my good friends who is working in Turkey. Please consider signing: these officials need to know that the world is watching.

Jülide Yazıcı, a student in the Philosophy Department in Boğaziçi University who was active on social media supporting academics threatened by the Turkish government, was arrested two days ago. According to one source, she was charged with “being a member of an armed terrorist organisation” and “spr…

09/28/2014

Hey all! This Friday, Texas A&M's Kristi Sweet will be giving a presentation on Immanuel Kant:

"Out in the Territory: The Place of the Third Critique in Kant's System"

The talk will be in the Green Room on Friday, October 3rd at 4:00pm. We hope you'll join us!

09/16/2014

Miami University's brand new Philosophy Dept. website has officially launched! Click below and check it out.

And special thanks to our own Shouta Brown for doing a ton of the on-the-ground technical work. Great job, Shouta!

To confront the questions and challenges in life that have no easy answers requires, in Kant’s words, the courage to use one’s own understanding. Our mission in the philosophy department at Miami University is to empower our students to live courageous and thoughtful lives by passing on to them the…

09/03/2014

This Friday we are excited to welcome Christopher Long of Penn State University for our first colloquium of the semester. Dr. Long will be speaking to us on

"Socratic and Platonic Politics"

September 5, 4:00 PM
Irvin 40

We hope you'll join us!

04/17/2014

Mark your calendars for this year's Graduation and Awards Ceremony, at 4 PM in the Green Room of Hall Auditorium, on Friday, May 16th! Everyone is welcome, and refreshments will be provided. Come send off our graduating majors, minors, and MA students in style!

02/12/2014

Please join us this week for the annual Linda Singer Memorial Lecture, dedicated to the memory of the late philosopher Linda Singer, and supported by a generous gift to the department of philosophy from the friends and family of Linda Singer. This year's Singer Lecture will be delivered by Wendy Brown, who is First Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Her talk, entitled, "Does Human Capital Have a Gender?" will be delivered in the Shriver Center Multipurpose room on Thursday, February 13th at 4:00 PM. A reception will follow the talk.

01/31/2014

Hey women philosophers! Are you thinking about graduate study in philosophy? If so, check out this great summer opportunity: http://spwp.ucsd.edu/

01/17/2014

Hey Miami undegrad philosophers! Not doing anything over January term? How about submitting a paper to Prometheus, the undergraduate philosophy journal at Johns Hopkins University? Details below:

http://philevents.org/event/show/12674

12/07/2013

Undergraduate philosophers: check out DePauw University's annual Ethics Symposium! The deadline for submissions is February 1. Questions? Feel free to talk to any faculty member for guidelines or more information.

http://www.depauw.edu/academics/centers/prindle/ues/2014/

Nationally recognized, DePauw provides a set of exceptional college experiences marked by intellectual rigor and shaped by a dynamic faculty. These experiences are further enhanced by an engaging residential campus community and a breadth and depth of perspectives inside and outside of the classroom...

12/05/2013

Thinking about graduate school in Philosophy? Check out this year's Grad Guide, an annual publication of the American Philosophical Association.

http://www.apaonline.org/?page=gradguide

The Guide to Graduate Programs in Philosophy, published biennially until the early 2000s, was relaunched in 2012 as an annual online resource. The guide compiles data on both doctoral and master’s degree programs in philosophy at institutions throughout the US and Canada, offering prospective studen...