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Fall19 courses
Fall 2019 Courses Announced

*asterisks indicate courses with Honors sections PHIL 2010  Introduction to Philosophy* Multiple Instructors Is there free will? How can I tell right from wrong? What is the relationship of my mind to my body? Does all knowledge come from experience? These are just a few of the questions that you will address in Introduction to Philosophy. In addition, this course offers an overview of the development of philosophical ideas from antiquity…
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Aaron Meskin
Aaron Meskin to Head Department of Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Dr. Aaron Meskin will join the faculty as department head in July 2019. Meskin, who is currently Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, has taught at Leeds since 2005. He previously worked at Texas Tech University and earned his PhD from Rutgers University. His areas of interest include Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Philosophical Psychology…
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Ava Thomas Wright
Wright Awarded Gittler Fellowship

UGA Department of Philosophy Ph. D candidate Ava Thomas Wright has been awarded the Joseph Bertram Gittler Fellowship in support of her dissertation on “The Duty of Veracity.” Wright’s work has a particularly contemporary poignancy in that it examines the practice of social testimonial statements about certain kinds of expert knowledge via Kant’s theory of justice. In her dissertation, Wright is examining whether experts have a legal “duty of…
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Philosophy, awards, 2018 graduates
Congratulations Philosophy Graduates & Awardees!

The Department of Philosophy extends sincere congratulations to our 2018 graduating seniors and scholarship awardees. These students were recognized with a brief ceremony & reception on May 3, 2018. Awardees include: Erin Gorman (Russell Prize), Valerie King (Hart Scholarship), Ryan Mcardle (Harrison Scholarship), John Malone (Severens Scholarship).  Pictured from Left to Right: Tom Morrison, Jacob…
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Hart & Harrison Undergraduate Scholarships Application Deadline April 27

Applications for both the Hart and Harrison Scholarships must be submitted to the Philosophy office by Friday, April 27 at 5pm.  The Daniel Hart Memorial Scholarship was established by family and friends in December 2007 as an endowed fund to honor the memory of 1990 UGA Philosophy graduate Daniel Shalom Hart, this scholarship recognizes junior or senior-level students who exhibit a broad intellectual curiosity and philosophical…
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Robert Hopkins
"Ryle-ing the Irreal: sensory imagining as knowing about sensing" - Robert Hopkins (NYU) Friday, Feb. 2 (3:30pm, 115 Peabody)

Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series Gilbert Ryle claims that perception involves both sensation and thought. Sensory imagining, he holds, though usually considered to involve something like the recreation of sensation, in fact involves only the deployment of perceptual thought. Ryle thus offers the most radical alternative to the account of imagining that has dominated thinking in both philosophy and psychology. Ultimately, Ryle’s radical…
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Victoria Davion with dog
Memorial for Victoria Davion December 8

Victoria “Vicky” Davion passed away peacefully in her sleep surrounded by loved ones on Sunday, November 5, 2017. Dr. Davion served as Head of the Department of Philosophy from 2005 until falling ill this year. She was founder and editor of the journal, Ethics & the Environment, and a celebrated scholar of ecofeminism and environmental ethics. The Department of Philosophy will host a memorial reception celebrating the life of Victoria…
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