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PhD student Alex Asay has returned to the department after a six-month military deployment overseas. He is the recipient of a Fall 2024 UGA Foundation scholarship through the Student Veterans Resource Center and was awarded The Air and Space Commendation Medal by the Air Force for his actions abroad. PhD student Robert Martin presented the paper "In Search of an Epistemic Home for Trust: a Proper Functionalist Journey" at the Gordon H.…

Staff Sergeant Alex Asay on duty at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. PhD student Alex Asay has been awarded a Fall 2024 scholarship from The UGA Foundation through the Student Veterans Resource Center and was awarded The Air and Space Commendation Medal by the Air Force for his actions abroad. The Department of Philosophy recently welcomed Staff Sergeant Asay back as he rejoined his cohorts following a six month deployment overseas.…

Cindy Ren was awarden a PhD, pictured with major professor Richard Winfield & Department Head Aaron Meskin. The Department of Philosophy hosted a reception and awards presentation on Friday, May 10 to recognize Spring 2024 graduates and award recipients. Students and their families gathered for refreshments in Peabody Hall as department head Aaron Meskin and undergraduate coordinator Melissa Fahmy recognized this year's graduates and…

Department of Philosophy graduate students Kobina O. Korankye (PhD student) and Guillermo Zapata (MA student) recently participated in the panel discussion, “Environmental Ethics Reframing Conservation: From Leopold to Climate Justice.” Led by UGA Department of Philosophy professor Christine Cuomo, the panel was part of the Integrative Conservation Conference held at the University of Georgia in February 2024.  PhD student…

The Department of Philosophy held a reception on Friday, December 15, 2023 to celebrate our students participating in Fall 2023 commencement ceremonies. We were excited to welcome their friends and families to Peabody Hall as we congratulated these accomplished young people and wish them well in all their future endeavors!  Graduate student Josué Piñeiro was awarded a PhD, he is pictured third from left with faculty Melissa Fahmy, Sarah…

PhD student Mohammad Amin Amouhadi recently received a highly competitive research assistantship from the AI Institute. He was part of the course design team for a graduate course on the application of Machine Learning in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is also involved with the UGA Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources project PERSEUS (Promoting Economic Resilience and Sustainability of the Eastern US Forests). Amouhadi also recently…

Three UGA Philosophy graduate students have recently successfully defended their dissertations and secured teaching positions and several other former students continue to move forward in successful academic careers. Josué Piñeiro Is beginning a full-time lecturer position at Kennesaw State University in the wake of his successful defense of Knowing and Being Known: Failures, Injustices, and Reparations (major professor Chris…

Department of Philosophy PhD candidate Josué Piñeiro has accepted a position as a full time lecturer at Kennesaw State University starting in Fall 2023. His dissertation focuses on epistemic injustice and epistemic resistance with the incorporation of elements of the ethical and the political, his research interests drawing from the philosophy of race, decolonial theory, and feminist philosophy.  Piñeiro's interest in philosophy…

Dr. Michael Lindquist successfully defended his PhD dissertation, An Exploration of Environmental Values in Outer Space in July 2022, and is now employed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. His major professor was Dr Piers Stephens. Dr. Claire Worthington Mills successfully defended her PhD dissertation, Locating Livestock in Rawls’ Basic Structure: A Novel Approach to Distributive Justice for Farmed…

Once again, Department of Philosophy students are participating in a philosophy for teens program at the Athens-Clarke County Library. Led by graduate student Marissa Willis, PHIL3900S is in conjunction with the UGA Office of Service Learning. In the "Let's Talk About That" after-school program, undergraduate students lead discussions with middle and high school teens on a broad variety of philosophical topics. "So far we've had some really fun…