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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!
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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.
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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!
October 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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"
April 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Undergraduate presenters and commentators from GPPC member schools (and beyond) will present throughout the day, and the event will conclude with a keynote address by Peter Baumann of Swarthmore College. Find more details in the attached program.
April 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We're delighted to serve as hosts for the 2025 Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium @thegppc.bsky.social Undergraduate Conference this Saturday, April 26.
April 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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.
April 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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.
February 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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/
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM