Her paper, “An Attunement Account of Forgiveness,” won the prize for best graduate student paper at the Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers.

It’s easy for a data scientist (or indeed, for any of us in our professional lives!) to get their work done by putting their head down, ignoring the social context of that work and the ethical concerns it might raise. In Data Ethics, I try to help students develop an ability to identify ethical issues as they arise and become comfortable discussing difficult moral and political questions. When concepts like privacy and transparency are mentioned in data science, they’re often treated just as buzzwords. So I also want to equip students with arguments about why exactly such values matter.

Matthew DuPree successfully defended his dissertation, “Agency and Equanimity: Neo-Pyrrhonian Reflections on Action, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility,” on Feb. 19. Matthew’s committee was chaired by Alfred Mele.

Congratulations to Evan Jones, winner of the Florida Philosophical Association (FPA) Graduate Paper Award. Evan presented his paper, “Mental Causation and the Metaphysical Commitments of Scientific Naturalism,” at the recent FPA Conference, Feb. 9-10, at St. Petersburg College.

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

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

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

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.

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.