Recent News

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…

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…

Professor Anna-Sara Malmgren was awarded The American Philosophical Association's 2012 Article Prize for her article, "Rationalism and the Content of Intuitive Judgements," Mind, 120 (2011), 263-327.

The APA Prize Article is given to…

Professor Debra Satz's book, "Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets", published by Oxford University Press in 2010, was recently reviewed in "The Nation":

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/higher-…

The Department of Philosophy at Stanford University is pleased to announce that seven of our Ph.D. students received the following special, competitive fellowships for the coming academic year:

The April 2012 issue of the Philosophical Review journal (Volume 121, Number 2) has been released and features papers written by three Stanford Philosophy Ph.D. alumni (Darren Bradley, Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder) as well as by a…

Johan van Benthem's new book "Logical Dynamics of Information and Interaction" has been published by Cambridge University Press. This book develops a new view of logic as a theory of information-driven agency and intelligent interaction between…

Professor Chris Bobonich's book, "Plato's Laws: A Critical Guide", published by Cambridge University Press in November 2010, has been reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) by Diego De Brasi (Philipps-Universität…

Professor Debra Satz's book, "Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets", published in 2010 by Oxford University Press was recently reviewed in two well-known philosophy journals.

The first review, by Cecile Fabre…

The book dedicated to Professor Michael Friedman titled, Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science (Open Court, 2010) has just been reviewed by Lydia Patton of Virginia Tech in the…

Alan Code will be joining Stanford as the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of Philosophy effective July 1.  While he will be on leave in Munich for the Fall Quarter, he will be moving into his office on campus over the summer and…

Angela Potochnik, who received her Ph.D in Philosophy from Stanford University in 2007, is this year's recipient of the 2011 Marjorie Grene prize for her paper on optimality modeling presented at the 2007 meetings of the International Society for…

Anna-Sara Malmgren has accepted the Philosophy Department's offer to join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, starting the Fall quarter. Her areas of specialization are Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind.

Anna-Sara is…

The APA Board of Officers has now completed voting on a new Chair to succeed Anthony Appiah upon the completion of his term of office. Michael Bratman of Stanford University was elected to a three-year term as Chair of the APA Board of Officers…