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Interview with Professor Andrea Westlund

01-13-2024

FSU Philosophy Department's Andrea Westlund was recently interviewed as part of The College of Arts and Sciences' Faculty Spotlight series.


Congratulations to Andrew Moffat, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Why Not Luck?”

11-13-2023

Andrew Moffat successfully defended his dissertation, “Why Not Luck?” on Nov. 10. Andrew’s committee was co-chaired by Simon May and Piers Rawling.


Congratulations to Gordon Cooper, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Tracing Principles and Self-Inflicted Constitutive Luck.”

11-13-2023

Gordon Cooper successfully defended his dissertation, “Tracing Principles and Self-Inflicted Constitutive Luck,” on Nov. 8. Gordon’s committee was chaired by Alfred Mele.


Associate Professor Courtney Fugate awarded an NEH grant from the Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program

08-22-2023

The Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations.


Congratulations to PhD student Renee Rushing, joint winner of the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s annual Philosophy Essay Prize.

07-26-2023

A Florida State University doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy has won a prestigious international essay competition for her paper exploring backward-looking emotions, particularly anger, and under what circumstances it is permissible to let go of such feelings.


Graduate Student Joseph Masotti Awarded 3rd Place in FSU’s “Master’s in Four” Competition.

05-30-2023

Joseph Masotti was awarded 3rd place in FSU’s Master’s in Four competition for his presentation, “Navigating the Moral Maze: Acting Ethically When We Don’t Know.”


Professor Michael Bishop awarded 2022-23 University Teaching Award for Innovation in Teaching

04-20-2023

Congratulations to Professor Michael Bishop, who has received a 2022-23 University Teaching Award for Innovation in Teaching.


Graduate Student Evan Jones awarded APA Graduate Student Travel Stipend

03-31-2023

Congratulations to Evan Jones, who was awarded an APA Graduate Student Travel Stipend to present his paper, “Disjunctivism, Skepticism, and the Capacity for Perceptual Knowledge,” at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association.


Zina Ward awarded BJPS Popper Prize for the best article published in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in 2022

03-19-2023

Zina Ward, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, was awarded the BJPS Popper Prize (named for Karl Popper) for the best article published in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in 2022.  Click here to visit the BJPS website announcement regarding this award, which contains a link to the full publication.


FSU Graduate Students Win Awards at 68th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Associatio

02-27-2023

At the 68th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association (FPA), Joseph Masotti received the Graduate Paper Award for his paper, “Objective Oughts When You Simply Cannot,” and Zach Smith received the Rini Prize for Public Philosophy for his paper “Counterfactual Abilities and the Will Theory of Rights.”