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Spring 2026 Faculty News & Accomplishments

Our faculty have had another productive semester, with numerous publications, presentations, and awards: Professor Yuri Balashov published a long paper on the origins of the translation abilities of large language models. Professor Edward Halper had a paper “Plotinus on Knowledge,” accepted in the International Journal of the Platonic Tradition.  He will present this paper at the Aristotle Across Boundaries II Conference, Vercelli…
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Nick Schuster
Nick Schuster Chosen as 2026-2028 Lilly Fellow

The Philosophy Department is proud to announce that assistant professor Nick Schuster has been chosen to receive a 2026–2028 Lilly Teaching Fellowship. Now in its 43rd year at the University of Georgia, the Lilly program remains a distinguished cornerstone of junior faculty development and engagement. The Lilly program is extremely competitive, and Dr. Schuster was selected as one of only ten members of the Lilly Fellowship cohort for this year…
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Cuomo & Barton with Fulbright scholars in Brazil
Cuomo & Barton Present in Brazil, COP30

Professor Chris J. Cuomo is participating in a five-year multidisciplinary Fulbright project on “Sustainable Strategies for Repair, Response and Recovery from Weather Disasters in Rio Grande do Sul Through International Academic Cooperation,” with colleagues in Philosophy, Biology and Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre, Brazil.  Professor Chris Cuomo (second from right) pictured with fellow ecofeminism…
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Fall 2025 Faculty News & Accomplishments

Professor Yuri Balashov traveled to the Machine Translation Summit XX in Geneva and the 11th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies in Leeds, UK in summer 2025 to present his research funded by an NSF grant. His paper, co-authored with Alex Balashov and Shiho Fukuda Koski, has been published in the prestigious ACL Anthology. He also presented a talk on the origins of the translation abilities of…
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Spring 2025 Faculty News & Accomplishments

As part of his NSF-funded project, Professor Yuri Balashov organized a symposium on “Philosophy of Translation, Human and Machine” in the framework of the 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in New Orleans in November 2024. He also gave a talk “On the potential significance of ‘dust’ in ‘industrial’: Lessons from deep learning” at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, at the…
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CHAW at UGA
UGA Hosts Chattahoochee Aesthetics Workshop

The third Chattahoochee Aesthetics Workshop was held in Athens on the weekend of April 26-27, 2025. This regular meeting of UGA and Auburn University faculty and students interested in philosophical aesthetics took place at the Athenaeum, The University of Georgia's Downtown Gallery Space.  Speakers included Professor Richard Winfield and Dr. Rene Jagnow from UGA’s Department of Philosophy, Professor David Saltz from UGA’s Department…
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Aaron Meskin
Meskin Spearheads UGA Aesthetics Lab

This year Professor Aaron Meskin spearheaded a new philosophy working group: the University of Georgia Aesthetics Lab. The Aesthetics Lab, modeled on labs in STEM fields, served as a way for graduate students and faculty to receive thoughtful constructive feedback on works in progress ranging from roughed out ideas for a publication to qualifying papers and dissertation chapters. In addition, the Aesthetics Lab functioned at times as a reading…
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Raymond Woller
In Memory of Raymond Woller 1941-2024

Longtime Philosophy faculty member Raymond Woller recently passed away at the age of 83. A scholar of Ontology, Metaphysics, Analytic Philosophy, and John Locke, Dr. Woller taught at UGA from 1994 until his retirement in 2011, serving as a lecturer, Philosophy undergraduate advisor, Cognitive Science undergraduate coordinator, fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Center, and department representative to the Board of Regents Philosophy Advisory…
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Fall 2024 Faculty News & Accomplishments

Professor Yuri Balashov was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to support his interdisciplinary project exploring cognitive, linguistic, and philosophical aspects of human and machine translation. Balashov's research is a bottom-up case study of the history and current state of translation technologies conducted from the complementary perspectives of multiple disciplines and informed by first-hand knowledge of human…
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Yuri Balashov UGA Philosophy
Balashov Awarded NSF Grant

UGA Philosophy professor Yuri Balashov has received an NSF grant in the amount of $136,969 to support his interdisciplinary project exploring cognitive, linguistic, and philosophical aspects of human and machine translation. Building on prior work, this project brings educational and research tools illustrating the complex interaction of human and machine translation to the attention of students and practitioners, including those with…
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