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News Regarding Undergraduates

• Mark Patterson (Class of 2008) is currently completing an MSc in Philosophy of Social Science at the London School of Economics.
• In 2007-08, Philosophy undergraduates won many fellowships and awards, including a Gates Fellowship (2008), two DAAD undergraduate Fellowships (2007 and 2008), a Freeman-Asia award (2007), a Beinecke Fellowship (2007), a Glamour Magazine Top Ten Women award (2007), and an OTZMA Fellowship (2007).
• In the past three years our graduating philosophy majors have had tremendous success in gaining admissions to leading philosophy graduate programs (including Cambridge, Michigan, Duke, Pitt, NYU, Carnegie-Mellon, and the Logic and Philosophy of Science program at Irvine); several philosophy majors have been admitted to prestigious law and medical schools (including Chicago, Stanford, and Harvard); one philosophy major was admitted to the PhD program in Yale’s Psychology Department; and one philosophy major was admitted to the internationally renowned program for the Master of Arts in Comparative and International Studies at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).

News Regarding Graduate Students

• In 2007-08 our placement record was extraordinary: we placed all 8 of our PhD students on the market in tenure-track jobs, at places that include the University of Miami, Wesleyan University, Michigan State University, Fordham University, Dalhousie University, and Iowa State University
• Philosophy graduate students Emilie Prattico and B. Scot Rousse were named University Scholars by the Graduate School (2008) in conjuection with their 10-month DAAD Fellowships for the 2008/2009 academic year.
• Philosophy graduate student Ryan Doran won a WCAS Excellence in Teaching Award (2007) as well as a Dissertation Year Fellowship from The Graduate School (2008).
• Philosophy graduate student Alison Peterman won the Paris Program for Critical Theory fellowship (2008).
• Philosophy graduate student Deborah Goldgaber was awarded an exchange fellowship to Ecole Normale Superior (Paris) for 2008-09.
• Philosophy graduate student B. Scot Rousse won a Graduate Student Travel Stipend Award at the 2007 APA Eastern Division meeting for his paper "Heidegger and Frankfurt on the Circularity of the Practical Question."

News Regarding Faculty

• Mark Alznauer wins a 2009 NEH  "Enduring Questions" award to develop a course under the project title, "Should Art be Moral?  The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry."
• Fabrizio Cariani's paper (co-authored with Marc Pauly and Josh Snyder) "Decision Framing in Judgment Aggregation" (Synthese, 2008) was named by the Philosopher's Annual one of the ten best papers published in philosophy in 2008.
• Kyla Ebels Duggan has accepted a Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at Princeton University for the 2009-10 academic year.
• Rachel Zuckert’s book (Kant on Beauty and Biology) was published by Cambridge University Pres (2007), was featured at an Author-meets-Critics session one of the 2007 meetings of the American Philosophical Association (2007), and was awarded Best Book of 2007 by the American Society for Aesthetics Monograph Prize (2008).
• Richard Kraut received a Starr Fellowship of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University (2008-09).
• Peter Ludlow received a SSHRC Research Grant (2008); was a Scots Philosophical Club Centenary Fellow (2007); and held a James B. and Grace J. Nelson Faculty Fellowship (2006).
• Penny Deutscher received a Humboldt Fellowship (2008); held an Institute of Advanced Study Distinguished Fellowship, University of Durham (2007); and won the LeRoy Hall Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching (2007).
• Jennifer Lackey we the recipient of an ACLS Ryskamp Research Fellowship (2007).
• Mark Sheldon was elected to the Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll for 2007-08 (the eighth consecutive year for which he was given this honor);
• Rachel Zuckert was an NEH Summer Seminar Leader (2006-07);
• Peter Ludlow’s 2006 book (The Second Life Herald, MIT Press) was awarded the Association of American Publisher’s Book of the Year Award in the category of Media and Cultural Studies.
• Ken Seeskin’s book (Maimonides on the Origin of the World, Cambridge University Press) was named by Choice as one of the outstanding books in the humanities for 2006.
• Penny Deutscher’s book (The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance) was published by Cambridge University Press (2008).
• Jennifer Lackey’s book (Learning from Words) was published by Oxford University Press (2008) and was featured at an Author-meets-Critics session at one of the 2008 meetings of the American Philosophical Association (2008).
• Charles Mills's book with Carole Pateman, Contract and Domination (Polity Press, 2007), was the subject of Authors-Meet-Critics panels at the 2008 meetings of the American Philosophical Association, American Political Science Association, Association for Political Theory, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Radical Philosophy Association, and a 2008 workshop at Oxford University.

General Department News

• In June 2009 the Philosophy Department will be hosting the 2009 Episteme workshop, on the topic of the Epistemology of Disagreement (with proceeds to be published in Episteme, a journal of Social Epistemology)
• In May 2009 the Philosophy Department will host our annual Ethics workshop.
• In October 2008 the Philosophy Department co-hosted (and will continue to co-host) the annual Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Conference.
• In April 2008 the Philosophy Department hosted a one-day conference on “Violence: Political and Sacred,” in cooperation with the University of Pisa.
• In May 2008 the Philosophy Department hosted our annual Ethics workshop.
• In November 2007 the Philosophy Department hosted the inaugural Midwest Epistemology Workshop (with proceeds to be published in a special forthcoming edition of Philosophical Studies).
• In 2008-09 three of our colleagues (Rachel Zuckert, Sean Ebels Duggan, and Cristina Lafont) have initiated the Consortium in German Philosophy, which will sponsor various events (lectures, reading groups, and workshops) on the origins and legacy of Kantian philosophy and German Idealism, and which will involve faculty and graduate students from research universities within and around Chicago (including not only U of C, UIC, Loyola, and DePaul, but also Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Marquette).
• In October 2008 our staffperson Crystal Foster won the “Meteor Award” for excellence in her profession.
• In October 2008 our staffperson Judy Kasen won the “Sunshine Award” for excellence in her profession.