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Spring 2025 Graduate Student News & Accomplishments

Five Philosophy graduate students, including three Doctoral and two Master’s students, have successfully completed their degree requirements in recent months. During the Spring semester, PhD candidate Amin Amouhadi defended his dissertation on Time in Aristotle’s Physics, written under the direction of Professor Edward Halper, and Master’s candidate Joshua Track defended his thesis. Master’s candidate Ryne Barry will be defending this summer.…
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Spring 2025 Faculty News & Accomplishments

As part of his NSF-funded project, Professor Yuri Balashov organized a symposium on “Philosophy of Translation, Human and Machine” in the framework of the 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in New Orleans in November 2024. He also gave a talk “On the potential significance of ‘dust’ in ‘industrial’: Lessons from deep learning” at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, at the…
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Fall 24 Philosophy grads
Congratulations Fall 2024 Philosophy Graduates!

The Department of Philosophy held a reception on Friday, December 13 celebrating the graduation of students participating in the Fall 2024 commencement ceremonies. Congratulations to these accomplished students. (Seth Schulman, Erin Horesh, & Joseph Vaught pictured above; Sam Bennet, PhD pictured to the left with department head Aaron Meskin) Fall 2024 UGA Philosophy graduates: Samuel Bennett, PhD Erin Y. Horesh, BA Levi M. Johnson, BA Seth…
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Spring 2024 Dept of Philosophy Graduates
Congratulations Spring 2024 Graduates!

Cindy Ren was awarden a PhD, pictured with major professor Richard Winfield & Department Head Aaron Meskin. The Department of Philosophy hosted a reception and awards presentation on Friday, May 10 to recognize Spring 2024 graduates and award recipients. Students and their families gathered for refreshments in Peabody Hall as department head Aaron Meskin and undergraduate coordinator Melissa Fahmy recognized this year's graduates and…
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UGA Ethics Bowl National Team 2024
Ethics Club Makes Semifinals in National Bioethics Bowl

Pictured l-r: Sam Guimond, Zoe Schweitzer, Peter Bartlett, Mong Vo, Mark Westrick, Caty Huff, Steve Guimond Congratulations to UGA’s Ethics Club for an impressive performance in the National Bioethics Bowl, which took place at Baylor College in Waco, TX on Saturday, April 13. Finishing as the highest ranked public university in the tournament, UGA’s team ranked 3rd place out of 20 teams, behind runner up Georgetown University and winner…
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2023 UGA Philosophy graduates
Congratulations 2023 Graduates & Award Winners

The Department of Philosophy hosted a reception and awards presentation on Friday, May 12 to recognize Spring 2023 graduates and award recipients. Students and their families gathered for refreshments in the atrium of Peabody Hall as department head Aaron Meskin and undergraduate coordinator Thanassis Samaras recognized this year's graduates and scholarship and award winners. All graduating seniors were presented with a gift bag containing a…
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CURO Jonas Andrulonis
Philosophy Undergraduates Present at CURO Symposium

Three undergraduate philosophy students participated in this year’s annual CURO Symposium, held April 3-4 at the Classic Center in downtown Athens: Joshua Simon Track: "Resolving the Inconsistency in the Physical and Psychological Differences of the Natural Slave and Natural Master of Aristotle's Politics" (mentored by undergraduate coordinator Athanasios Samaras) Jonas David Andrulonis (pictured at right): "Airpods, Everyday Aesthetics,…
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Spring 2023 Graduate Student News & Accomplishments

Dr. Michael Lindquist successfully defended his PhD dissertation, An Exploration of Environmental Values in Outer Space in July 2022, and is now employed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. His major professor was Dr Piers Stephens. Dr. Claire Worthington Mills successfully defended her PhD dissertation, Locating Livestock in Rawls’ Basic Structure: A Novel Approach to Distributive Justice for Farmed…
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Spring 2023 Faculty News & Accomplishments

Professor Yuri Balashov gave a talk on "Harnessing the Power of Domain Adaptation" at the Annual Conference of the American Translators Association in Los Angeles, CA in October. Associate professor Melissa Fahmy’s paper, “Never Merely as a Means: Rethinking the Role and Relevance of Consent” was published in the March 2023 issue of Kantian Review. Dr. Fahmy presented her recent work on obligatory ends in the Biennial Meeting…
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Fall '22 Philosophy graduates (Barta, Moynihan, Spector, & Sumlin pictured L-R)
Celebrating Fall 2022 Graduates

The Department of Philosophy held a reception on Friday, December 16 celebrating the graduation of students participating in the Fall 2022 commencement ceremonies. Congratulations to these accomplished students (Barta, Moynihan, Spector, & Sumlin pictured L-R): Michael Lindquist, PhD Jackson P. Barta, BA  Canah M. Dawson, BA Asadullah Khan, BA John I. Mbadugha, BA Matthew R. Pilgrim, BA Mary K. Simmons, BA…
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