newsItem = new Array() newsItem[0] = 'The Philosophy Department congratulates José Medina for winning the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching. \"Above and beyond his excellence as a teacher in the formal space of the classroom, Professor Medina is limitlessly generous with his time outside of class,\" Chancellor Gee said at the Spring Faculty Assembly on April 6th. \"José\'s personal commitment to his role and responsibility as a teacher and to issues of fairness and justice in student life have earned him not only the respect of students, but also the respect of his colleagues.\"' newsItem[1] = 'On April 13-15, 2007, the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt hosted The 2nd Annual Vanderbilt Conference on Politics, Criticism, and the Arts. The conference has been established as a yearly event that will permit historians, philosophers and critics of the arts to gather to discuss central issues in politics and the arts. Keynote address this year will be made by Caroline Jones (MIT).' newsItem[2] = 'The following Prizes for 2006 have been awarded:

Berry Graduate Student Publication Prize: Scott Aikin;

Kendall Berry Ethics Dissertation Prospectus Prize: Josh Crites;

Berry Teaching Award: Norman Whitman;

Berry First Year Teaching Award: Matt Whitt;

Berry Graduate Student Departmental Service Prize: Aaron Simmons;

Berry Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Philosophy: Ryan Goepfort;

Machette Teaching Prize: James Bednar' newsItem[3] = 'The Philosophy Department, the Vanderbilt Center for Ethics, and the Vanderbilt Law School are proud to have sponsored a lecture series in connection with a class taught this spring by Professor Rob Talisse. Speakers included Steven Macedo (Princeton), Michael Perry (Emory Law), Seyla Benhabib (Yale), and Roger Scruton (Princeton). For more information, see the calendar for the Democracy and Moral Conviction. These event are free and open to the public.' newsItem[4] = 'Recent faculty books:

Rob Talisse and Lenn Goodman, Aristotle's Politics Today (SUNY Press, 2007)
David Wood, Time After Time (Indiana University Press, 2007)
Rob Talisse, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy (Routledge, 2007)
Jeffrey Tlumak, Classical Modern Philosophy (Routledge, 2006)
José Medina, Speaking From Elsewhere: A New Contextualist Perspective on Meaning, Identity, and Discursive Agency (SUNY, 2006)
Lucius Outlaw, In Search of Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folk (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
William James Booth (Political Science and Philosophy), Communities of Memory (Cornell University Press, 2006)
Brooke Ackerly (Political Science and Philosophy) has edited a special issue of Perspectives on Politics devoted to the topic of "John Rawls and the Study of Politcs"

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