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Recent Faculty Publication: Nathanael Stein, Causality and Causal Explanation, Oxford University Press, 2023

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Recent Faculty Publication: Alfred R. Mele, Free Will: An Opinionated Guide. Oxford University Press, 2022.

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

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

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Graduate Student Evan Jones awarded APA Graduate Student Travel Stipend

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.

Alumni News

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

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.

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

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.”

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Two FSU Philosophy Graduate Students Win Awards at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association

Jared Ifland and Carme Isern-Mas both presented and received awards for their papers at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association. Jared was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Philosophy Paper Award for his paper “Realism on Thin Ice: An Argument from Mathematical Practice,” and Carme was awarded the Rini Prize for Public Philosophy for her paper “Personal Identity: at risk when our friends act immorally.” Additionally, Nolan Cannon, Matt DuPree, and Romy Vekony each presented their papers at the conference.

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Three FSU philosophy graduate students to present at the 14th Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science

Jared Ifland, Romy Vekony, and Robert Voelker have each been selected to present their papers at the 14th Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. The conference is known as one of the leading conferences for the history of philosophy of science and related topics. Jared Ifland will present “Induction, Conceptual Spaces, and Homotopy: A Response on Carnap’s Behalf," where he argues that current efforts to revitalize Rudolf Carnap’s late inductive logic are aided by recent developments in the foundations of mathematics.

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