Dr. Paul Crowe Receives CLA Faculty Advising Award
The department would like to congratulate Paul Crowe for winning the 2006 College of Liberal Arts Faculty Advising Award. More information on the award is available at this page on the ATTIC website: http://www.temple.edu/attic/awards/advising.htm.
Visiting Professor, Fall 2005: Dr. Espen Hammer
The Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Espen Hammer of the University of Essex and the University of Oslo as a Visiting Professor for Fall 2005. Dr. Hammer's main areas of specialization are 19th and 20th century European philosophy. He will teach a course entitled "Adorno on Modernity, Politics, and Aesthetics" at both the 200- and 400-levels. For further information Dr. Hammer's course, click here.
Shelley Wilcox Wins Teaching Award
Shelley Wilcox is the recipient of the 2005 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Award.
Noël Carroll Delivers Inaugural Andrew Mellon Lecture
Noël Carroll is the Andrew W. Mellon Term Professor in the Humanities at Temple University. He delivered the 2005 Inaugural Andrew Mellon Lecture and was installed as the Mellon Professor on Monday, April 18th, 2005. Professor Carroll's topic was "Art and Alienation." Pictures of the event will be posted here shortly.
Philosophy Major Steve Horowitz Publishes in Law Journal
Junior philosophy major and undergraduate ombudsperson Steve Horowitz published a paper applying Lockean thought to the ethics of internet file sharing in the Deakin Law Review. For an article on Steve, click here.
Naomi Zack Delivers Monroe Beardsley Lecture
The noted philosopher Naomi Zack of the University of Oregon delivered the Department's annual Monroe Beardsley Lecture on April 8, 2005. The talk, "Girl with a Pearl Earring and Janet Jackson: About Beauty, Obscenity and Power," was given in conjunction with the combined meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division and the conference on Recent Africana Thought. For further information click here.
Conference on Africana Philosophy
The Department of Philosophy, in cooperation with the Center for the Humanities at Temple, the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, and the offices of the Dean and the University Provost, sponsored a conference, "Recent Africana Philosophy in Three Movements," on April 7 - 8, 2005. The conference featured Howard McGary, Nkiru Nzegwu, Paget Henry, Leonard Harris, Naomi Zack and other philosophers. For further information click here.
Conference on Vietnamese Philosophy
The Department of Philosophy, in cooperation with the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society, sponsored a conference on Vietnamese Philosophy on June 22, 2005. The conference included seminars on "Distinctive Features of Vietnamese Philosophy" and "Vietnamese Perspectives on Truth, Falsehood, and Practice." The seminar featured prominent Vietnamese philosophers. For further information click here.
Spring Colloquia
Spring colloquia on Kant on representationalism and constructivism, mathematical accidents and explanation, Hobbes and Locke on abstraction, and beauty, obscenity, and power. For further information click here. The Fall 2005 colloquium schedule will be posted soon.
Atwell Prize in 19th-Century Philosophy
The Department is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2005 John Atwell Prize is Robert Main. The Atwell Prize was established to honor the memory of Temple professor John Atwell. The prize of $500 is awarded to the best paper by a current Temple graduate student submitted on a topic related to 19th-Century philosophy. For further information click here.
New Undergraduate Honors Program
The Department has approved a new Undergraduate Honors Program. For further information click here.
Visiting Professors, Spring 2005
The Department welcomed three Visiting Professors to campus for the Spring 2005 term: Howard McGary of Rutgers University, Tom Rockmore of Duquesne University, and Ralph Schumacher, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany. For further information on our visiting colleagues and the courses they taught, click here.
New Appointments
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the appointment of two faculty members who joined the Department this academic year--Kristin Gjesdal, and Syliane Malinowski-Charles. For further information on our faculty members, please click on the "People" button at the top of the page.
Rocker Marilyn Manson Visits Art and Society Class