News

11/17	Talisse to deliver invited lecture in Copenhagen Robert Talisse has been invited to deliver a talk to the Workshop on the Epistemology of Free Speech at the University of Copenhagen on December 11, 2009. His lecture is titled ""Self-reflexive Social Epistemic Norms."
10/21	Geist seeks student reviewers Vanderbilt's undergraduate philosophy journal, the Geist, is seeking students interested in philosophy to help us with the coming spring's submission review process. Selected readers will be asked to read and comment on philosophical essays submitted by their peers from around the world, with the ultimate goal of finding the best articles to print in the journal. All are welcome to apply. Those interested should email daniel.l.cunningham@vanderbilt.edu by October 31 with name, year, and a brief statement of philosophical background--classes taken, areas of interest, etc.
10/18	Faculty Book Published: Kelly Oliver Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to be Human (Columbia University Press).
10/12	Faculty Book Published: Robert Talisse Democracy and Moral Conflict (Cambridge University Press)
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."
3/4	Julian Wuerth joins department. Vanderbilt welcomes Julian Wuerth, Associate Professor of Philosophy. He will join the department in Fall, 2009. Professor Wuerth works on Kant, modern philosophy, history of ethics, and contemporary ethics. His book _Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics_ is being published in 2009 at Oxford University Press.
2/12	Tlumak becomes editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly Jeffrey Tlumak has begun a three year term as editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly
2/2	Faculty Book Maimonides and his Heritage, edited by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn Goodman, and James Allen Grady. Published by SUNY press.
1/8	Forry AAPT Treasurer Dr. Forry has been appointed Treasurer for the American Association of Philosophy Teachers. She will serve as AAPT Treasurer for the next five years.
1/7	Faculty Book Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert Talisse and Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt Ph. D., 2006) has just been published with Continuum Books
1/5	Horowitz Wins Teaching Award Professor Gregg Horowitz won this year's Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award by unanimous vote of the selection committee.
12/1	Faculty Book Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion edited by David Wood and J. Aaron Simmons (Vanderbilt Ph.D. 2006) published by Indiana University Press.
11/1	Faculty Book From Nature to Norm: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Morals by John Post published by BookSurge.
8/26	Awards Lenn Goodman, Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, is now also the 2008 winner of the Earl Sutherland Research Prize, the highest academic award presented within the University. Lenn received the honor from Chancellor Nick Zeppos at the August 26, 2008 Faculty Assembly.
4/17	Awards and Grants Centennial Professor of Philosophy David Wood is now also the 2008 Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor. At the April 17 Faculty Assembly Chancellor Nick Zeppos awarded the honor to David for developing significant new knowledge from research and exemplary innovation in teaching that span multiple academic disciplines. Congratulations to David for this well-deserved award. Lisa Guenther and Jonathan Neufeld have won University Research Scholar Grants to support their 2008-2009 academic year sabbaticals. Graduate student Matt Whitt has won a University Summer Research Award.
3/28	Philosophy Department Enhances Summer Course Offerings Summer classes in philosophy are given by dedicated instructors who enjoy teaching, and this year students can choose from a wider variety of interesting topics. Four specialized courses are being offered this summer in addition to important standards.