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Beth Preston
Beth Preston Retires

Longtime Department of Philosophy Professor Beth Preston has retired after 30 years of service to the University of Georgia. Preston joined the Department in 1990 and served as Interim Head from 2017-2019, she was a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence from 1990-2004 and an affiliate of the Center for Integrated Conservation Research since 2014. "Dr Preston is a world-renowned researcher, a superb teacher, and was a…
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Winfield Democracy Unchained
Fall 2020 Faculty News

Professor Yuri Balashov presented "Multiple Lives in Relativistic Spacetime?" at the 8th Annual California Metaphysics Conference, University of Southern California in January 2020 and published a paper, "Common Sense and Relativistic Supercoincidence" in Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy (Routledge, 2020). He also completed a second discipline study in Linguistics and is actively working on a…
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Chris Cuomo
Cuomo Receives Inaugural Davion Award

Victoria Davion   UGA professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies Chris Cuomo is the recipient of the inaugural Victoria Davion Award for Intersectionality in Environmental Ethics to be presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. The award is in honor of Victoria Davion, the first woman appointed head of the University of Georgia Department of Philosophy, a position which she held from…
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Susan Schneider
Fall 2020 Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series

The Fall 2020 Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series will be presented online. This page will be updated as details of these lectures arise. Please check in regularly on our Events page for more information about presenters and abstracts for each upcoming lecture.   September 10, 2020 - 3:30pm Christopher J. Preston, University of Montana-Missoula  "Rewilding in a Synthetic Age: Some Links and Some Lessons"  …
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William T. Blackstone
William T. Blackstone Scholarship Announced

The Department of Philosophy announces the William T. Blackstone Honors Philosophy Scholarship, an annual award of $1500 to be awarded in the Spring semester of each academic year. Honors students who have demonstrated overall academic excellence and a strong interest in philosophy are eligible to apply.  This scholarship honors the memory of William T. Blackstone who served as the Head of the Department of Philosophy…
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double dawgs
Become a Philosophy Double Dawg

The Department of Philosophy is proud to participate in the University of Georgia's Double Dawgs program. Enthusiastic philosophy students can now earn both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in five years or less. Through this popular program, motivated students can save time and money as they move forward toward postgraduate success. “The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to be able to offer this new Double Dawgs…
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Ethics & the Environment 25th anniversary
Ethics & the Environment Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Ethics & the Environment celebrates 25 years of editorship at the University of Georgia Department of Philosophy. This biannual peer-review journal of environmental philosophy was founded in 1995 by UGA professor and ecofeminist scholar Victoria Davion and has steadily grown to international recognition as one of the premier journals in the field.   Upon Davion’s untimely passing in 2017, Associate Professor Piers H.G. Stephens assumed…
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Peabody Hall
Congratulations to Philosophy Graduates & Awardees

The Department of Philosophy community gathered for an online celebration on May 14, 2020 to recognize this year's graduates and award winners. The event was attended by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Dean Alan Dorsey and included recorded remarks from UGA icon Coach Vince Dooley as well as Department of Philosophy alumnus Dustin Elliott, an environmental/natural resource policy attorney who is now the legal director of the…
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Peabody Hall
Graduate Student News & Accomplishments, Summer 2020

 Several UGA Department of Philosophy graduate students have defended theses and dissertations, as well as achieved important awards and recognitions in recent weeks. Congratulations to these hard-working students and best of luck to those moving on to pursue further educational opportunities and careers in philosophy. Nathan Vacher successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, Significance and the Indefinite in Hans Blumenberg's '…
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Peabody from Law
Department of Philosophy Announces Pre-Law Track

UGA Department of Philosophy announces a Pre-Law Track for undergraduate philosophy majors interested in pursuing a career in law. In conjunction with faculty members from the UGA School of Law, philosophy faculty members have identified nine courses within the department that cover material that might be particularly helpful to those pursuing further studies in law. These include: Ethical Theory, Feminist Philosophy, Biomedical Ethics, Theory…
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