Paolo Santorio (http://paolosantorio.net/) will start as an associate professor in Fall 2019.
Moonyoung Song will be the first ASA Postdoctoral Fellow. She will work at the University of Michigan with Professor Peter Railton.
Kelsey Gipe, who earned her PhD in 2018, will be the 2019-2020 Clinical Ethics Fellow at Sutter Health’s Program in Medicine and Human Values in San Francisco.
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow Jeremy Reid who will take up a position as Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University, starting in the Spring of 2020.
Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement) selected by Forbes as best quantum physics book of 2018 and included in Symmetry's list of notable physics books of 2018.
Congratulations to Dr. Lopez who will begin as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Susquehanna University in fall 2017.
Julius Schoenherr won for his paper "When Forgiveness Comes Easy" submitted to the APA Eastern Division.
Peter Carruthers has earned the highest appointment bestowed on tenured faculty at UMD.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will fund a year of Knox's doctoral research at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Turner wins the ARHU Dean's Senior Scholar Award.
Sicilia has been awarded a Coro Fellowship and has been admitted to the UCSD's Summer Program for Women in Philosophy
Jeff Horty was awarded for "Reasoning with Dimensions and Magnitudes" at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
The UMD Graduate School will support his dissertation writing next fall.
Congratulations to Harjit Bhogal who won the 2018 Sanders Prize in Metaphysics (and $10,000)!
Quinn is presenting two posters at the conference West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 36: "Reporting Modal Beliefs" and "Epistemic Uses of "Likely" and "Might" Are Only Indirectly So" (with Alexander Williams)
Gavri, an undergraduate Philosophy major, was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan for the 2017-18 academic year.
A campus-wide initiative exploring the central role of public education in the development of American democracy. See dtn.umd.edu for more information.
Transitivity of Sentences and Scenes in Early Language Development (#BCS-1551629): The project is directed at the claim that very young children take transitive sentences to describe events viewed as having two participants. It asks whether children reliably view their world in these terms, and considers several problem cases.
Cindy Phillips is visiting scholar at University of Edinburgh Law school from March to July. She will be presenting a paper on the function of law during the seminar series.
Sue Dwyer was named executive director of the Honors College. The full story is available at http://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/umd-names-susan-j-dwyer-executive-director-honors-college.
Sungwon Woo will be givng a talk titled "An Impossibility Result for the Best System Analysis" at the 2016 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Conference.
Ryan Ogilvie will be givng a talk titled "Empirical Tests for Perception" at the 2016 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Conference.
in the Weekly Gulan Magazine (Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq), http://www.gulan-media.com/english/details.php?section=2&id=141 (17 October 2015).
Rachel is visiting the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, in their visiting scholar series. She will present her paper "Political Friendship and Virtue." The same paper will be presented to the philosophy department at University of Colorado, Denver.
Rachel Singpurwalla presented the paper "Political Friendship and the Spirited Part of the Soul," at the Plato's Other Souls conference at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.
Professor Frisch discusses both the centrality of causal explanations in everyday life, and the possibility that such explanations are deeply mistaken. Aeon is an online magazine that "asks the biggest questions and finds the freshest, most original answers, provided by world-leading authorities on science, philosophy and society."
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