MIT philosophy: news
September
- Bob Stalnaker's Our Knowledge of the Internal World has just been published
- in an orderly handover that will see even higher yields from graduate students toiling in the field of philosophy, our
Great Leader, Steve Yablo, has been succeeded by our Dear Leader, Richard Holton
- The Philosopher's Annual have made their picks of ten best philosophy papers published in 2007: they include
Seth Yalcin's "Epistemic Modals", Sally Haslanger's "'But Mom, Crop Tops are Cute!' Social Knowledge, Social Structure and Ideology Critique",
and our alum Adam Elga's "Reflection and Disagreement"
The MIT philosophy summer diaspora is finally over...
- Steve Yablo and Agustín Rayo are back from Peru, Bob Stalnaker is back from France and Germany, Rae Langton and Richard Holton are back
from Iris Murdoch's house in Oxford, Alex Byrne is back from Australia and New Zealand, Caspar Hare is back from Britain, France, Macedonia, and Wisconsin,
Vann McGee sensibly stayed home, other faculty members as yet unaccounted for...
- Adam Hosein, David Etlin, and Brad Skow went to the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress; his youthful good looks secured Brad the young ethicist prize
- more news about the peripatetic Etlin: he, Sarah Moss and Bob Stalnaker gave talks at the First Formal
Epistemology Festival in Konstanz Germany -- which was partly in honor of Bob and
co-organized by MIT alum Eric Swanson
- David Etlin wandered around the Americas: he gave a talk in Paraty Brazil at CLE30/EBL
XV/SLALM XIV and then (if that were not exact enough) at the Society for Exact Philosophy, in Laramie Wyoming
- Heather Logue hopped around Australia: she gave a talk on The Relational and Representational Character of Perceptual Experience
at the ANU
- Lauren Ashwell hiked around England: she gave a talk at Bristol
- much summer chitchat from Holton and Langton: Richard gave talks about freedom of the will in
Oxford, Edinburgh, Oslo, Paris and Talahassee, and about factives in Oxford and Bristol; Rae gave talks about
unknowability and intrinsicness in Oxford and Bristol, and about pornography and hate speech in Oxford, London, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Oslo
May
- the philosophy indoor soccer team, the Existential Eliminators,
following distinguished predecessors, made the playoffs in our intramural competition
- in more tenure news, Steve Yablo's tenure as department head ended with a traditional reading of the hunting of the snark
- Agustín Rayo received tenure

April
March
February
- Judy Thomson gave the keynote address ("Turning the Trolley") at the USC/UCLA philosophy graduate
student conference, and stayed on at UCLA for the rest of the month to give a mini-seminar on
moral theory in the philosophy department, and a paper ("Some Reflections on Hart and Honore, Causation in the Law")
at the law school's legal theory workshop
- 13 students and 2 faculty decided to getfit
(alternative spin: 15 students and 10 faculty decided not to)
January 2008
December
November
- Richard Holton gave a public lecture, "What Does Empirical Research
on Moral Intuitions Tell Us about Morality?", at the Kennedy School of Government
October
September 2007
It's summertime and the academic living is easy...
MIT
philosophy
updated: 2 sep 2008