Journal of the History of Philosophy moves to UW-Madison

The Department of Philosophy will be the new home of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, the world's leading journal for scholarship in the history of philosophy.  

Steven Nadler, William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, has been named as the journal's new editor.

Now in its forty-seventh year, the Journal is published by The Johns Hopkins University Press and is available online at Project Muse.

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Hausman elected to Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell Professorship

Dan Hausman, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy, has been elected to the 2010-2011 Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell Professorship of Philosophy, a prestigious national award.

This honor recognizes the recipient’s distinguished achievement and substantial contribution to the public understanding of philosophy.

Phi Beta Kappa provides a monetary stipend and Hausman will be giving a series of three special lectures open to their institution’s academic community and the general public in 2010-2011.

The Alpha of Wisconsin Phi Beta Kappa chapter was founded in 1898.  Phi Beta Kappa undergraduate members are elected to membership by faculty for academic achievement across the liberal arts.

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Two L&S faculty inducted in American Academic of Arts & Sciences

On Saturday, October 9, three faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — two from the College of Letters & Science — were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The professors were:

• Daniel Hausman, Herbert A. Simon Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Letters & Science
  
• Karen Strier, Hilldale Professor of Anthropology, College of Letters & Science,
  
• Sean Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Medical Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  

Congratulations to all three for this prestigious recognition! 

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Titelbaum's article one of "the ten best papers of 2008"

The Philosopher's Annual has cited a paper by Assistant Professor Michael Titelbaum, who just joined the UW-Madison faculty in the Department of Philosophy, as one of "the ten best papers of 2008". 

Titelbaum's article, titled "The Relevance of Self-Locating Beliefs", was published in The Philosophical Review.

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Philosophy Ph.D student awarded Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Philosophy Ph.D student Jaime Ahlberg (Philosophy, MA'07) has been awarded a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation entitled "Ideal and Nonideal Theory in the Realm of the Political".

The Spencer Foundation is the largest U.S.-based funder of educational research and Ahlberg was one of just 20 awardees in a competition with over 600 applicants. 

Ahlberg's dissertation explores the significance of theorising about ideal justice for deciding what principles ought to guide agents acting in the non-ideal, at-best imperfectly just, world, with a specific focus on issues concerning the just distribution of educational opportunities.

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Hausman elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dan Hausman, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  His areas of research concentrate on methodological, metaphysical and ethical issues at the boundaries between economics and philosophy. 

Hausman co-founded the journal "Economics and Philosophy" and edited the third edition of "The Philosophy of Economics: An Anthology."

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