Philosophy major Kevin Tobia has been awarded a Clarendon Fund Scholarship and an Ertegun Scholarship (both to Oxford) to continue his studies in philosophy in the Fall of 2012. The Ertegun Scholarship, which is modeled after the Rhodes Scholarship, is awarded to only 15 students internationally, and is a tremendous honor for Kevin, the Philosophy Department, and Rutgers University.  Read More.

The Philosophy Department regrets to announce that Professor Emeritus Fadlou Albert Shehadi, beloved scholar and teacher, died at his home on February 29, 2012. He was 86. Professor Shehadi joined our Philosophy Department in 1953 after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He retired in 1994. He is best known, in philosophy, for his work in Islamic philosophy. A skilled and accomplished baritone, he brought intelligence, dignity and grace to our Department and Faculty. Read more...
 

Barry Loewer will give the inaugural Ernst Mach Lecture at the first Ernst Mach Workshop in Prague on June 25-26, 2012, sponsored by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Republic Academy of Sciences.

Jason Stanley published Know How (Oxford University Press, 2011).  The American Philosophical Association has organized two “Author Meets Critics” sessions on the book, one at the 2011 Eastern Division meeting, and one at the 2012 Pacific Division meeting.  Northwestern University has also organized a March 2012 conference on Jason’s epistemological work.

Alvin Goldman published Reliabilism and Contemporary Episteomology: Essays. (Oxford University Press, 2012)

The 2-16-12 Star Ledger’s “Inside Jersey” has a special section on intellectual firepower in New Jersey in which the Rutgers Philosophy Department is featured three times.  Our quarters are described as “surely the smartest half-acre in the state…home to one of the world’s greatest collections of philosophers since, well, Plato's Academy," and Jerry Fodor is listed as “one of the 20 exceptional intellects who are changing the world” from the Garden State.  

• "Jersey's Smartest House"
• "Jersey's Brainiest Places"
• "NJ Brainpower List" 
  

Metaphysical Mayhem, a 5-day summer school for graduate students, will be May 14-18, 2012. John Hawthorne, Katherine Hawley,  Ted Sider, Jonathan Schaffer, and Dean Zimmerman will lead seminars on a variety of topics in metaphysics, including: natural properties, composition as identity, grounding, metaphysical explanation, and more. 

Larry Temkin published Rethinking the Good:  Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning (Oxford University Press, 2012).  Larry is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University for 2011-2012.

Stephen P. Stich published Mind and Language:  Collected Papers, Vol. I (Oxford:  Oxford University Press:2011) and has forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science, (New York: Oxford University Press: 2012), Eric Margolis, Richard Samuels & Stephen Stich, eds

Douglas Husak's paper, co-authored with Craig Callender, “Wilful Ignorance and the Equal Culpability Thesis: A Study of the Significance of the Principle of Legality,” (Wisconsin Law Review) was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A., 131 S.Ct. 2060 (2011).

Alvin Goldman continues to serve as editor of EPISTEME, A JOURNAL OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY. The journal will begin publication with Cambridge University Press in March 2012.

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