News
8/17/09: The 2009 issue of the department newsletter Communiqué (pdf) is available for download.
Andrew Moon (ABD) has a paper forthcoming in Mind, and has also won this year's one and only MU Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship.
Alan Tomhave (PhD, 2008) has accepted a tenure-track position at Youngstown State University, Ohio.
Jared Bates (PhD, 2001) has a paper, "A Defense of the Explanatory Argument for Physicalism", forthcoming in The Philosophical Quarterly.
Justin McBrayer (PhD, 2008) has a paper, "A Limited Defense of Moral Perception," forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
Mat Konieczka (PhD, 2007) has accepted a three-year renewable position at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire.
Eric Roark (PhD, 2008) has accepted a tenure-track position at Millikan University in Decatur, Illinois.
Troy Nunley (PhD, 2005) has accepted a tenure-track position at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado.
Lily Chang (PhD, 2006) has published a book, Aristotle on Happiness, with VDM (Verlag Dr. Mueller).
Justin McBrayer (PhD, 2008) has accepted a tenure-track position at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.
The Realistic Standards for Decisions Conference was held on April 25 and 26, 2008.
Edward Moad (PhD, 2003) has published his paper, "Reasons, Resultance, and Moral Particularism", in Philosophical Quarterly (January 2007).
We are delighted to welcome Philip Robbins this semester as associate professor of philosophy; he will greatly add to existing strengths in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.
Dr Robert Johnson, associate professor of philosophy, has won this year’s MU Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activities.
Melisa McCormick (MA, 2001) has recently been awarded tenure in the Department of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the College of Southern Nevada.
Ted Poston (PhD, 2005) has a paper forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Eric Roark, current PhD student, has won the Jean Hampton Prize for 2007, and is the first graduate student ever to do so.
The Philosophy Gourmet Report lists specialty rankings for our faculty in
Normative Ethics & Moral Psychology,
Political Philosophy,
Philosophy of Biology,
Philosophy of Social Science,
and Decision, Rational Choice & Game Theory.
Jason Berntsen (PhD, 2007) has a position as a tenure-track assistant professor at Xavier University in New Orleans, LA.
Jon Trerise (PhD, 2007) has a three-year renewable position at Florida International University.
Mat Koniecska (PhD, 2007) has a position as a visiting assistant professor at Hampden-Sydney College, VA.
Ron Novy (PhD, 2007) has a renewable position as a visiting instructor and college advisor at the University of Central Arkansas.
Philip Robbins (AOS Philosophy of Mind/Psychology) will be joining our faculty in the Fall of 2007!
Eric Roark, our Kline Chair research assistant, is the 2007 recipient of the Jean Hampton Memorial Prize awarded to the best paper in social and political philosophy submitted to the Pacific Division of the APA by a philosopher in an early career stage. Eric’s winning paper is entitled, “Is Michael Otsuka's Conception of Robust Self-Ownership Too Robust for a Left-Libertarian?”
Ted Poston, one of our recent PhD’s has been hired, tenure-track, by University of South Alabama.
Matt McGrath is the recipient of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholar Prize.
The Department has two new Curators' appointments! Bina Gupta is the recipient of a Curators' Dinstinguished Professorship, and Peter Markie has received a Curators' Teaching Professorship. These appointments are the highest recognitions faculty members can receive at the University of Missouri.