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Frank Harrison
Frank Harrison Passes Away

Longtime University of Georgia Professor of Philosophy, Frank Harrison III passed away on April 16, 2020 peacefully surrounded by loved ones. Harrison had retired from teaching in May 2017 and relocated to Marietta, Georgia to be near his beloved family. Born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1935, Harrison attended college at University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and was awarded his MA and PhD at University of Virginia in…
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Eliassi-Rad & Fitelson lectures online
Lectures Presented Online

Scheduled lectures co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence by Tina Eliassi-Rad & Branden Fitelson will now be presented online via Zoom. Eliassi Rad's talk, "Just Machine Learning" takes place on Thursday, April 23 at 4pm and can be viewed at https://zoom.us/j/96760966159 Fitelson's talk, "How to Model the Epistemic Probabilities of Conditionals" takes place on…
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Peabody Hall
Support for Student Presentations Available

If you are a philosophy major/minor presenting a philosophy paper in a conference this semester, the philosophy department might be able to help with some financial support. In order to apply you will need to send an e-mail to samarast@uga.edu with details of your acceptance, before your presentation and no later than FEB 21st. You will also need to submit receipts of travel, accommodation etc. after your conference.
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Recent Faculty News

FACULTY NEWS Distinguished Research Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Edward Halper has assumed the presidency of the International Plato Society. UGA will be hosting the Society’s Symposium XIII, “Plato’s Sophist” in July 2022. Halper also has been busy with multiple speaking engagements across the globe recently, including: the keynote address at the Conference on “Plato’s Philosophy in the Context of…
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Recent Faculty & Grad Student Publications

Several UGA Department of Philosophy faculty members and graduate students have published books, chapters, and articles in recent months: Distinguished Research Professor Richard Dien Winfield authored Universal Biology after Aristotle, Kant, & Hegel: The Philosopher’s Guide to Life in the Universe (Palgrave MacMillan), drawing upon the work of three iconic thinkers to develop a philsopher’s guide to life in the universe via a…
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Aaron Meskin
About New Department Head Aaron Meskin

Dr. Aaron Meskin is the new head of the Department of Philosophy. Meskin most recently served as Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, has taught at Leeds and previously worked at Texas Tech University and earned his PhD from Rutgers University. His areas of interest include Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Food, and Philosophy of…
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Philosophy undergrad awardees 2019
2019 Student Award Winners

PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT AWARD WINNERS 2019 On Wednesday, May 1, the Department of Philosophy recognized four undergraduate students with scholarship awards. ​​​​​​Students pictured in front row, left to right: Anne Still, Andrew Clarida, Abby Clement, Clark Veazey, Abby Temple, Wes Bowden. Faculty pictured in back row: Yuri Balashov, Sarah Wright, Athanasios Samaras, Piers Stephens, Richard Winfield. Congratulations to these hard-working…
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Fall19 courses
Fall 2019 Courses Announced

*asterisks indicate courses with Honors sections PHIL 2010  Introduction to Philosophy* Multiple Instructors Is there free will? How can I tell right from wrong? What is the relationship of my mind to my body? Does all knowledge come from experience? These are just a few of the questions that you will address in Introduction to Philosophy. In addition, this course offers an overview of the development of philosophical ideas from antiquity…
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Aaron Meskin
Aaron Meskin to Head Department of Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Dr. Aaron Meskin will join the faculty as department head in July 2019. Meskin, who is currently Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, has taught at Leeds since 2005. He previously worked at Texas Tech University and earned his PhD from Rutgers University. His areas of interest include Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Philosophical Psychology…
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Ava Thomas Wright
Wright Awarded Gittler Fellowship

UGA Department of Philosophy Ph. D candidate Ava Thomas Wright has been awarded the Joseph Bertram Gittler Fellowship in support of her dissertation on “The Duty of Veracity.” Wright’s work has a particularly contemporary poignancy in that it examines the practice of social testimonial statements about certain kinds of expert knowledge via Kant’s theory of justice. In her dissertation, Wright is examining whether experts have a legal “duty of…
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