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 PhD Alum Susan Levin, Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, writes to us about her new book:

"Greetings from a graduate alum! I'm Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, where I've been on the faculty since receiving my PhD from…

Helen Longino was awarded the degree Doctor honoris causa at the 134th Founding Day Anniversary of the Free University of Amsterdam on October 20, 2014.

With great sadness, the Philosophy Department notes the passing of our longtime colleague, David Shepherd Nivison, the Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor (emeritus), who died in his Los Altos home on October 16, 2014.  He was…

News from the University of Amsterdam:

1 October 2014

Prof. Johan van Benthem was named Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion upon his retirement as…

By analyzing how people cooperate and make plans, philosophy Professor Michael Bratman creates a framework for understanding human sociality that has implications in fields ranging from psychology to artificial intelligence.…

Professor Michael Bratman gives the 8th Routledge Lecture in Philosophy at Cambridge University.

Human beings act together in characteristic ways, and these forms of shared intentional and shared cooperative activity matter to us a great…

Obituary for Grigori Mints which originally appeared in the Stanford Report, June 12, 2014.

With great sadness, the Stanford Philosophy Department notes the passing of our friend and beloved colleague Grigori (“Grisha”) Mints, who died at Stanford on Thursday, May 29th, just shy of his 75th birthday. 

Mints was…

Mints was born on June 7, 1939 in…

The Philosophy Department would like to congratulate Prof. John Perry for winning the 2013 Philip L. Quinn Prize.

The Philip L. Quinn prize is awarded in recognition of service to philosophy and philosophers, broadly construed. Any member…

Michael E. Bratman is a Professor of Philosophy and the U. G. and Abbie Birch Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Bratman has written four books: Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason (1987), Faces…

Provost John Etchemendy announced at Thursday's Faculty Senate meeting that eight faculty members had been named or reappointed Bass University Fellows.

Established in 2001, the Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program…

It is with great sadness that the Department notes the passing of our friend and colleague Fred Dretske (1932-2013), on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Fred arrived at Stanford from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1990, and taught with us full…

Our Philosophy Department would like to congratulate Wesley H. Holliday (Stanford University) and Ekaterina Lebedeva (University of Lorraine) for winning the 2013 E.W Beth Dissertation Prize!

Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic,…

Congratulations to Philosophy Talk for their recent recognition at this year's New York Festivals International Radio Programs and Promotions Competition!

What explains human behavior? It is standard to consider answers from the perspective of a dichotomy between nature and nurture, with most researchers today in agreement that it is both.

For Helen Longino, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor…

Our department is very pleased to announce that our staff member, Vera Haugh, has been awarded this year's Arnice P. Streigh Award for Distinguished Service.

The award was created in 1987 in honor of Arnice P. Streit, whose record of…

Seven Stanford professors have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The academy is one of the country's oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies, and a leading center for independent policy…

The Paul Bernays Lectures are a new, annual and three-part honorary lecture series about the philosophy of the exact sciences.

The series alternates between the philosophy of logic or mathematics, and the philosophy of physics. This…