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Maran Wolston is doing a fellowship residency at Fondation Brocher in Geneva, Switzerland, focusing on ethical and epistemological questions surrounding the production and authorship of medical knowledge, and the impact of health information and medical diagnoses on patient identity. Jason Swartwood's dissertation project on wisdom was recently profiled in an interview with Bill Magdalene. Read it here...
04/25/12The Philosophy Department will award up to four Woodbridge Scholarships for 2012-13. Each scholarship will carry a stipend of $1000. Funds for the scholarships are provided through the generous support of the Lawrence Cattron/Frederick Woodbridge Scholarship Fund. The scholarships are for undergraduate majors in philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus. Awards will be based primarily on merit, but financial need will also be considered.
Applicants must submit a completed application form, a current transcript, and the names of two members of the Philosophy Department who have agreed to write letters of recommendation, at least one of whom must be a faculty member (professor). Applicants should ask recommenders to give their letters directly to the Director of Undergraduate Studies. To accept the award, applicants must still be registered U of M students in the fall of 2012.
The deadline for applications is Monday, April 23, 2012. A faculty committee will select the Woodbridge Scholars and awards will be announced before the end of spring semester.
03/22/12We are excited to announce that Susan Hawthorne was recently hired at Saint Catherine University (full time appointment) and Jovana Davidovic was recently hired at the University of Iowa (tenure-track appointment). More details on recent graduate student placement can be found here...
We also are excited to announce that Ramona Ilea (PhD, 2006) was recently granted tenure at Pacific University. Congratulations! Read more about our graduate alumni here...
Philosophy Camp is the affectionate nickname given by students to the philosophy courses Phil 4326-Lives Worth Living: Questions of Self, Vocation, and Community (6 credits, 4 weeks), and Phil 4350-Catching Lives Worth Living: Participation in the Growth of a Living-Learning Community (2 credits, 1 week). Students and instructors meet daily and create a residential living-learning community experience. Registration is now open. Read more...
03/09/12Anthony Selbitschka, a University of Minnesota alumnus and philosophy major, recently launched a blog and podcast entitled Philosophy: A Survival Guide with fellow University of Minnesota alumnus Michael Raveling. They claim philosophy is everywhere and makes a difference in everyday life. We think they're on to something...
02/10/12Deepanwita Dasgupta completed her PhD dissertation entitled "On the Peripheries of Western Science: Indian Science from 1910 to 1930, A Cognitive-Philosophical Analysis"
in 2010 under the supervision of Ron Giere. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of South Florida and was recently profiled in The Global Scholar - USF Postdoctoral Newsletter.
Interested in doing cutting-edge research in an area of philosophy? The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) makes this possible. UROP provides grants of up to $1,700 for undergraduate students either to carry out a project of the student's own design in close collaboration with a faculty sponsor or work with a faculty member on her/his scholarly or creative project. In the process you develop a detailed knowledge of research methods while the faculty sponsors gain the assistance of enthusiastic and capable students.
For more details about UROP, click here. For application materials, click here. If you have questions about UROP, please contact Rebecca Rassier.
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