News

• Congratulations to Senior Major Benjamin Eneman on the Publication of His Article, “The Panacea Problem: Indifference, Servility, and Kantian Beneficence”

  Ben's article appears in the Brown Journal of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Vol. III, Issue 1. You can read it here. Congratulations, Ben!

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• Congratulations to Nancy Sherman on the Publication of Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience

  Professor Sherman's book, Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience, has recently appeared on Oxford UP. "Engaging sympathetically yet critically with the ancient texts, she ultimately

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• Congratulations to Mark Murphy on the Publication of Divine Holiness and Divine Action

  Professor Murphy's latest monograph, Divine Holiness and Divine Action, has recently appeared on Oxford UP. The Oxford UP page describes it this way: • Offers the first systematic theory of holin

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• Georgetown Philosophy Ph.D., Paddy McShane, Promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Portland.

  The Department is proud to announce that Paddy McShane has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Portland. McShane is a 2015 Georgetown philosophy Ph.D.  She

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• Remembering Robert M. Veatch, PhD 1939-2020

  Robert M. Veatch, PhD 1939-2020 Robert M. Veatch, PhD, Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics, and a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

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• Henry Richardson and Collaborators Advance Discussion of the Ethics of Global Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines

  https://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/news-events/senior-scholar-co-authors-article-advancing-an-ethical-framework-for-the-global-allocation-of-covid-19-vaccines/

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• GU Philosophy PhD Program Rated Among the Best in the Country

  In a recent independent analysis of both subjective student satisfaction and objective factors such as diversity, placement, and post-graduate success, Georgetown’s PhD program in Philosophy ranks am

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• The Philosophy Department Mourns the Passing of Jay Reuscher, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

  John Alfred “Jay” Reuscher, associate professor emeritus of philosophy at Georgetown University, passed away on Sunday, June 14, 2020, due to complications of COVID-19. Jay was a member of the De

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• The GU Philosophy Department Mourns the Passing of Fr. John Langan

  Father John Langan passed away on Friday, March 20th, 2020 at the age of 79. Since 1987, Fr. Langan was the Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at George

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• Michael Barnes Accepts Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Univ. of Oklahoma

  Michael Barnes (PhD 2019) has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the the University of Oklahoma, as part of the institute's Self, Virtue, a

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