We are pleased to announce Yuewen Chen as the recipient of the 2025 Nordev Award! He has received this award for his outstanding essay: “Aristotle on How Pleasure Perfects Activity.” 
The Nordev Prize was endowed for the best paper in philosophy written by a graduate student.
Congratulations Yuewen!

Congratulations to Professor Espen Hammer who has co-authored a book with Professor Fred Rush titled: The Routledge Guidebook to Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. The book is being published by Routledge and will be available on October 27th.

Link to the book in the replies.

Professor Espen Hammer will discuss his new book After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche with scholars Donovan Schaefer, Jeffrey Green, Sabina Bremner, and Daniele Lorenzini at the University of Pennsylvania. All are welcome to attend!

Congratulations to Associate Professor Eugene Chislenko for winning the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy! You can read more about his accomplishment here:
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Many congratulations to PhD candidate Eli Benjamin Israel on his recent publication "Navigating vagueness: Rule-following and the scope of trust" in The Philosophical Quarterly. You can read a preprint of his paper on PhilPapers at the link below:
philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Arthur Krieger for his recent publication "Benzos (as) needed: research into as-needed and intermittent benzodiazepines for anxiety is required for comprehensive best prescribing practices" in Frontiers in Psychiatry.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Temple Philosophy PhD candidate Eli Israel recently published a blogpost on the blog of the APA, reflecting on his experience as a member (and current chair) of the APA Graduate Student Council, and offering an enthusiastic endorsement of service work for the good of the profession.

Reminder: this is happening tomorrow!

A reminder that the 2025 Beardsley Lecture at the Barnes Foundation is this Friday, April 25, 2025. We are honored to be joined by Professor Gary L. Hagberg of Bard College who will be speaking on "The Metaphorical Lens"

We're delighted to serve as hosts for the 2025 Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium @thegppc.bsky.social Undergraduate Conference this Saturday, April 26.

We're looking forward to University of Pennsylvania Philosopher Quayshawn Spencer's presentation at the Temple University Science, Technology and Society Network, coming up on Monday, April 14, 12-1pm in the Charles Library First Floor Event Space.

We're delighted to be cohosting this conference with the University of Glasgow School of Law, and we're grateful that the GPPC and others see the value in thinking carefully and clearly about this topic right now.

Assistant Professor @brianhutler.bsky.social in the blog of the APA, writing about his recent work about hospital relocation and indirect discrimination.

blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/21/h...

We're grateful for this excellent coverage from The Temple News of the recent interactive AI fair we cohosted with other departments. Find some great quotes from @brianhutler.bsky.social in the article below.

temple-news.com/interactive-...

We're delighted to welcome Dr. Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at MIT as our 2024-2025 Distinguished Speaker. As part of her visit, Dr. Haslanger will present a public lecture "Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care" from 3-5 p.m. in Mazur Hall 821.

📑Lee-Ann Chae reflects on way we generally speak to children about war & killing, with stories of #badguys whom it is necessary to kill, & concludes we must learn to tell different stories if we are to better prepare children to seek genuine #peace: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

Kicking off 2025 with some good news - Very proud to share that my paper "Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust" is now forthcoming in the Philosophical Quarterly!

philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR

We're excited to cohost Temple's Interactive AI Fair February 25-26. @brianhutler.bsky.social and Eli Alshanetsky are representing the department on an interdisciplinary organizing committee. You can find more information at sites.temple.edu/fair/

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