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Philosophy Department Celebrates Graduating Seniors

  On Friday May 17th the Philosophy Department held both a virtual and a face to face ceremony in celebration of its seniors graduating in the spring and summer 2021. A record number of Philosophy majors graduated this year and some of them are going on to prestigious graduate programs. Congratulations to our students and best of luck in all future endeavors!  Gianna Scerbo, recipient of the Richard H. Severens scholarship, with…
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Undergraduate Award Winners Announced

Isabelle Riddle William T. Blackstone Honors Philosophy Scholarship Isabelle is graduating with a B.S. in Biology (with a neuroscience area of emphasis) and a minor in Philosophy. She hopes to attend medical school and become a diagnostician after a gap year of ecology field research. She is passionate about travel, medical ethics, poetry, and good conversations with friends.       Emma Emery Frank Harrison III Scholarship Emma…
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Scholarship Application Deadline April 12

It's that time of the year again! The Department of Philosophy is currently seeking applications for undergraduate scholarships including the Frank Harrison III Scholarship, the Daniel S. Hart Memorial Scholarship, the William T. Blackstone Honors Philosophy Scholarship, the Richard H. Severens Scholarship, and nominations for the Horace B. Russell Prize. Application materials, qualifying criteria, and…
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Statement in Support of AAPI Students, Staff, and Faculty

The Department of Philosophy endorses the recent statement from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences regarding the recent Atlanta shootings. We express our support for, and solidarity with, Asian and Asian-American staff, students and faculty as well as our commitment to equity, inclusiveness and respect: The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences expresses support for, and solidarity with, our Asian and Asian-American students, staff, and…
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Minor in Law, Ethics, & Philosophy Announced

The Department of Philosophy is excited to announce a new minor in Law, Ethics, and Philosophy in partnership with the UGA School of Law. This course of study gives undergraduate students an enhanced opportunity to achieve a deeper understanding of legal and ethical modes of thinking and increase their familiarity with philosophical concepts and arguments used in these fields. "We're really excited to offer this new major which …
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Philosophy for Children Service Learning Course Announced

The Department of Philosophy has launched the new course, Philosophy for Children (PHIL 3900S) for the Spring 2021 semester. Developed and taught by PhD student Michael Lindquist in partnership with the UGA Office of Service Learning, twenty-one students are enrolled this semester. The course allows UGA students an opportunity to to fulfill UGA’s experiential learning requirement by engaging with with K-12 students via teen…
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Beth Preston
Beth Preston Retires

Longtime Department of Philosophy Professor Beth Preston has retired after 30 years of service to the University of Georgia. Preston joined the Department in 1990 and served as Interim Head from 2017-2019, she was a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence from 1990-2004 and an affiliate of the Center for Integrated Conservation Research since 2014. "Dr Preston is a world-renowned researcher, a superb teacher, and was a…
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Fall 2020 Faculty News

Professor Yuri Balashov presented "Multiple Lives in Relativistic Spacetime?" at the 8th Annual California Metaphysics Conference, University of Southern California in January 2020 and published a paper, "Common Sense and Relativistic Supercoincidence" in Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy (Routledge, 2020). He also completed a second discipline study in Linguistics and is actively working on a…
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Chris Cuomo
Cuomo Receives Inaugural Davion Award

Victoria Davion   UGA professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies Chris Cuomo is the recipient of the inaugural Victoria Davion Award for Intersectionality in Environmental Ethics to be presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. The award is in honor of Victoria Davion, the first woman appointed head of the University of Georgia Department of Philosophy, a position which she held from…
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Susan Schneider
Fall 2020 Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series

The Fall 2020 Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series will be presented online. This page will be updated as details of these lectures arise. Please check in regularly on our Events page for more information about presenters and abstracts for each upcoming lecture.   September 10, 2020 - 3:30pm Christopher J. Preston, University of Montana-Missoula  "Rewilding in a Synthetic Age: Some Links and Some Lessons"  …
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