News

5/22/2025

Timothy Harrison has been selected to receive a Faculty Awards for Excellence in Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring, which honor faculty for their work with graduate students.

5/16/2024

Robert Pippin has been chosen to give the 2025 Dewey Lecture for the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. The Dewey Lectures, in memory of John Dewey, were established in 2006 by the John Dewey Foundation and the APA. They are three annual lectures, one at each divisional meeting of the APA (Eastern, Central, and Pacific), given by a prominent and senior (typically retired) philosopher associated with that Division, who is invited to reflect broadly and in an autobiographical spirit on philosophy in America as seen from the perspective of a personal intellectual journey. 

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March 20, 2024

Second year Social Thought student Elaine Wang has been awarded the Zagajewski Prize for her short story titled, "Autobiography of a Vase," which will appear in a forthcoming edition of Raritan.

February 16, 2024

Congratulations to Philosophy and Social Thought student Amy Levine, who has been offered and has accepted a Junior Research Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

February 16, 2024

Mark Alznauer received the best article award from the Journal of the History of Philosophy. His article was titled “Untrue Concepts in Hegel’s Logic” and published in the January 2023 issue. Alznauer is associate professor in the department of philosophy.

February 1, 2024

Committee on Social Thought PhD student Matthew Zipf was shortlisted for the Lothian Prize for Biography for his piece, Renata Adler – At the Radical Middle. See more about his piece and the other submissions here. 

February 1, 2024

Second year Social Thought student Elaine L. Wang has had a short story accepted for publication in Raritan. The story, titled “Autobiography of a Vase,” will appear in a forthcoming edition.

January 10, 2024

Committee on Social Thought professor Jonathan Lear will deliver the 2024 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture on April 2 at 5 p.m. in the Rubenstein Forum’s Friedman Hall. The title of the lecture is, "Gratitude, Mourning, Hope and Other Forms of Thought."

Read the announcement here. 

December 22, 2023

CST alum Jozef Majernik will be a Štefan Schwarz Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The project which he will be pursuing is a study of Jan Patočka’s interpretation of Plato and of the ‘Platonism’ of his own thought, which also aims to situate Patočka into the wider milieu of phenomenological returns to Plato, such as those of Jacob Klein, Leo Strauss, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

December 11, 2023
Gabriel Pihas's book, Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art, was reviewed in the December 21, 2023 issue of the New York Review of Books. Full review available here. 

July 9, 2023
Professor Emeritus Thomas Pavel was awarded the Grand Prix de la Francophonie (2023) by the Académie Française. 

June 26, 2023
Professor Robert Pippin was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Potsdam.

June 28, 2023
Congratulations to Professor Hans Joas, who was awarded an honorary degree from Pázmányi Péter University in Budapest.

May 12, 2023
Matthew Zipf has been awarded the Ernst Freund Fellowship in Law and Philosophy from the UChicago Law School.  This prize gives a student $5,000 to develop a proposal into a paper of publishable quality.  Matthew’s winning proposal is titled “Derision & Stare Decisis: Contempt in the Construction of Judicial Authority."

May 10, 2023
Rachel Wong has received a 2023-24 Fulbright Open Study/Research Grant and will be a visiting student in the Institut für Germanisk at the University of Leipzig.

April 5, 2023
Prof. David Wellbery, LeRoy T. & Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of Germanic Studies, Social Thought, and in the College, has received the highly coveted award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship, Spring 2023.

March 25, 2023
Emma Lunbeck has won a Social Sciences Research Council Graduate Fellowship.

March 28, 2023

Former Social Thought student Eliza S. Little, '20, has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Congratulation Eliza!! 

March 28, 2023

Former Social Thought student Michael L. Thomas, '15, has just begun a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in the Critical Cultural Theory and Media Studies section. Congratulation Michael!! 

March 28, 2023

Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire has just been awarded a Gadamer Grant from the Hans-Georg Gadamer Gesellschaft to work on a project called “Ethics without Metaphysics?  Gadamer’s Aristotle between Appropriation and Critique.”  March 2023