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by University Communications on September 15, 2017 3:11 pm Categories: Heard on Campus, On the Move  

Philosophy Talk, the popular radio show starring Stanford philosophers KEN TAYLOR and JOHN PERRY, has added two…

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From LSE website:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2017/06/05/2015-and-2016-lakatos-awards/#prettyPhoto

 

The London School of Economics and Political Science is pleased to announce the winners of…

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News originally posted on the APA website:

http://www.apaonline.org/news/350962/2017-Public-Philosophy-Op-Ed-Contest-Winners-Announced.htm

2017 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest Winners Announced

Monday, June 26, 2017 …

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Equality, evil, progress and tradition were some of the big concepts Stanford professors examined in Dangerous Ideas, a new humanities course held in spring quarter.

 

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 Franz Brentano Lectures on Practical Philosophy given at University of Vienna April 2017  

On Planning Agent’s Self-Governance Over Time   Thinking and Acting Together   The Rational Dynamics of Planning Agency
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The Stanford Philosophy Department congratulates our colleague Edward Zalta, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, and  Principal Editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,…

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Stanford doctoral candidate Blake Francis hopes to create a framework that governments could use to evaluate their climate change policies and consider when it’s morally justified for them to emit greenhouse gases.

BY ALEX…

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BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN

 

Debra Satz, a professor of philosophy, senior associate dean for the humanities and arts, and chair of the 2016-17 Faculty Senate, has…

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R. Lanier Anderson

Solomon Feferman

Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, Em.
Patrick Suppes Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Em.


With great sadness, the Philosophy Department notes the passing of…

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Stanford seniors’ thesis projects garner university medals

The projects conducted by the winners of the 2016 Firestone and Golden medals and the Kennedy Prize represent the breadth of the undergraduate experience at Stanford.…

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Earlier this month, Professor Michael Bratman gave the Samuel von Pufendorf Lectures at Lund University in Sweden.  

 

The series The Rational Dynamics of Planning Agency can be found below: 

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Philosophy Talk, a radio show hosted by Stanford philosophy professors KEN TAYLOR  and JOHN PERRY, recently took home a Bronze Award at the New York Festivals International Program Awards in the category of Social Issues…

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Duarte and Lennertz Win the
2016 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize

 

NEWARK, Del. — June 15, 2016 — The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Shane Duarte (University of Notre Dame as of…

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The North American Nietzsche Society announces its inaugural international conference to be held in New York City, October 15-16, 2016.

Keynote speakers:

       Beatrix Himmelmann, The Arctic University of Norway

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by Tanu Wakefield on December 11, 2015 4:00 am

MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, a professor of philosophy at Stanford, has won the Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science for his latest work on 18th-century German philosopher…

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BY CORRIE GOLDMAN AND CLIFTON B. PARKER

At Stanford, the Philosophy Department is a place where great ideas are changing the world.

The university’s philosophy program teaches people how to ask and answer difficult…

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The philosophy department congratulates Stanford alum and University of San Francisco Professor Manuel Vargas for winning the 2015 APA Book Prize.  

Manuel Vargas, Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (Oxford…

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From the Stanford Report

 

BY FABRICE PALUMBO-LIU 

The Humanities at Stanford

Research by philosophy Professor Michael Friedman reveals how a lesser-known Kantian text serves…

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Professor of Logic and Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Johan van Benthem gives the plenary lecture "Logic in Play" for the joint opening session of the 15th Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and…