Department of Philosophy
111 Furman Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
Telephone Number: (615) 322-2637
Fax Number: (615) 343-7259
Email Address: philosophy@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours:
M-F 7:30-4:30 Central Time
Upcoming Events
| 9/1 | Wood keynote lecture at ANU The Limits of the Human: Philosophical, Historical, and Ecological Perspectives conference organized by the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University. |
| 11/14 | Talisse delivers presidential address of the Southwestern Philosophical Society at its 71st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. The address is entitled, "Why I am not a Pluralist." |
Recent News
| 4/30 | GEIST '09, Vanderbilt Undergraduate Philosophy Journal released. GEIST is an open-campus journal, and invites submissions from undergraduate students all over the English-speaking world. Articles go through a rigorous double-blind review process. In this issue:
-we editors, having at once interviewed and not interviewed gayatri spivak -animythologies -the persistent corpse -how can brandom get through to fodor? -wittgenstein and dennett on phenomenological language |
| 4/27 | Talisse wins Research Scholar Fellowship to support work on his next book, which is tentatively titled _Against Pluralism_. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Talisse will be a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He will, however, continue to serve as the DGS in Philosophy. |
| 4/17 | Neufeld wins Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Grant with Jennifer E. Lena of the Sociology Department. Their project, "Music, Authority, and Community," investigates notions of legitimate authority, coercion, taste, and deliberation in musical communities. It culminates with a commission of a new work from Gabriela Lena Frank (Guggenheim Award winning composer) to be premiered by the Nashville chamber music group Alias and recorded on Naxos. |
| 4/7 | Friedman and May to join department We are proud to announce the appointments of Marilyn Friedman and Larry May as W. Alton Jones Chairs of Philosophy. Professor Friedman works in social/political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy. She is currently working on a project on female terrorists. Professor Friedman’s articles, many of them multiply reprinted and anthologized, have appeared in The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and elsewhere. She is the author of three books: _What Are Friends For? Feminist Perspectives on Personal Relationships and Moral Theory_, (Cornell) _Political Correctness: For and Against_ (co-authored Rowman & Littlefield), and _Autonomy, Gender, Politics_ (Oxford). Friedman's edited collection, _Women and Citizenship_ (Oxford), appeared in 2005 and she has co-edited three other books.
Professor May works in social/political philosophy, international criminal law, ethics, and the Just War tradition. He has authored over 75 articles, 9 monographs and coedited 14 books; the last three published monographs, all with Cambridge University Press, won prizes for excellence. _Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account_, was selected by the North American Society for Social Philosophy as the best book in social philosophy in 2005. _War Crimes and Just Wars_ won the APA’s biennially-awarded Frank Chapman Sharp Prize for the best book on the philosophy of war and peace in 2007. _Aggression and Crimes Against Peace_ was selected as 2008 book of the year by the International Association of Penal Law. |
| 4/6 | Harbour wins Summer Research Award Congratulations to Michael Harbour, graduate student in philosophy, who will be receiving a Vanderbilt Summer Research Award for his project "Contemporary Theories of Liberty." |
