Notabilia
2017
Professor of Philosophy听Patrick H. Byrne听will receive a Madonna Della Strada Award, the highest honor presented by the Ignatian Volunteer Corps, N.E. Region. It recognizes those who embody the Jesuit tradition of direct service to the poor and of working and educating for a more just society.听
Jon Burmeister听is a Visiting Scholar in the Philosophy department in conjunction with a National Endowment for the Humanities "Enduring Questions" Grant. The grant topic is "What is the Meaning of Work and Leisure?"听
Professor of Philosophy听贰尘别谤颈迟耻蝉听William Richardson, S.J., author of a groundbreaking study on renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger and a faculty member at Boston College for more than a quarter-century, died on December 10 at the age of 96.听
In collaboration with colleagues at Harvard and the Australian Catholic University, 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Jeffrey Bloechl听has organized a conference on "The Enigma of Human Suffering," in Rome, January 3-6, 2017.
2016
Self-appropriation can lead to objective judgments of value, Professor of Philosophy听Patrick Byrne听contends in his new book.听
Eleni Callas听'16, has been awarded the John Bapst, SJ, Philosophy Medal for outstanding overall performance in philosophy courses. Eleni's senior honor's thesis and scholar of the college project was, "How Free Am I? Where Neuroscientific Experiments Can Lead Philosophy Best" directed by Prof. Dan McKaughan.听
Richard Balagtas听'16 has received a Fulbright grant for research in the Philippines. The research will be a continuation of his senior thesis examining organ trafficking and how the Philippines government has handled transplant tourism.听
Maura Lester McSweeney, Philosophy '17, (and beloved Philosophy work study student) has been awarded the prestigious听. The scholarship recognizes a 糖心vlog直播平台 junior who best represents the values and ideals inherent in the life of Oscar Romero. Devotion to learning as evidenced by the student's academic record, and dedication to community service, both on and off campus, are the primary factors in determining the scholarship award.
Jeffrey Bloechl's philosophy class was a test of mind, heart, and body.
This summer, a group of faculty walked the Camino de Santiago in preparation for leading future student groups for the course 鈥淪elf-Knowledge and Discernment: The Experience of Pilgrimage鈥�. Photo taken in the town square in Santiago, Spain, in front of the cathedral of Santiago. From L to R听Micah Lott,听David Storey,听Eileen Sweeney,听Holly Vande Wall,听Andre Brouillette, SJ,听Jeff Bloechl, and听Marina McCoy.
罢丑别听听was awarded to Dr.听L. Sebastian Purcell, who completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Boston College in 2011.
The Philosophy department welcomes听Emmanuel Falque听(Institut Catholique de Paris)听as our Gadamer Visiting Professor this semester. He is a leading figure in the contemporary French effort to develop a philosophy that is at once grounded in phenomenological method and insights, and positively engaged with Christian theology. After early work on Bonaventure and other medieval thinkers, he has concentrated on phenomenological explorations of religious themes. Much of this has recently become available in English, including his trilogy published by Fordham University Press:听The Metamorphosis of Finitude. An Essay on Birth and Resurrection听(2012); The Wedding Feast of the Lamb. Eros, the Body and the Eucharist听(2016); and听Crossing the Rubicon. The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology听(2016).Professor Falque will be on our campus听August 28 - September 17听and听October 22 - November 12. During these two periods, he will be teaching two courses in our philosophy department.
The 2016 Essay Prize in听听was awarded to Dr.听L. Sebastian Purcell听Ph.D. '11.
Associate 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Jean-Luc Solere听has been awarded the Academic Technology Grant for his project, 鈥淢apping Spinoza鈥檚 Ethics 鈥� Stage 2鈥�. The project will attempt to improve and expand a first mapping of Spinoza's "Ethics". The end product will be a web site that enables an easy visualization of the interconnection between the demonstrative elements of the work.
Mitchell Clough听鈥�16 was awarded second prize at the 5th Annual William and Mary Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia. The prize was based on the philosophical merit and rigor of the papers submitted to the conference. Mitchell presented a segment of his senior honors thesis entitled 鈥淩awls and Human Rights: Overlapping Consensus or Overpowering Demand?鈥� to a group of undergraduate students in attendance.
This year鈥檚 senior Honor鈥檚 students in Philosophy听Brianna Mae Naumchik,听Walter Yu,听Richard Balagtas,听Mitchell J. Clough, and听Eleni Callas听celebrating at a dinner at the home of Prof. Eileen听Sweeney.听
Andrea Staiti听has been invited to give a听听at the University of Vienna as part of Sommersemester 2016. The lecture, entitled "Husserl's Late Ethics of Love in Context" will take place on April 14, with the workshop to follow on April 15.
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Jorge' Garcia听spoke at Western Washington University's Bellingham Lectures in Philosophy series. He offered a value theoretic critique of consequentialism to their Philosophy Department faculty, surveyed philosophy of race for their undergraduates and discussed a critical account of strong social construction with a class while there.
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Jorge' Garcia听will be speaking at UMass Boston's "Racial Integration and Moral Bias: A Day with Elizabeth Anderson" on April 21. He will then travel to Felician University in New Jersey to address their Annual Ethics Conference, to be held on April 23.
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Jean-Luc Sol猫re听will give a lecture on "Le Liber de causis et la m茅taphysique de la cr茅ation" (The Book of Causes and the Metaphysics of Creation) at the Sorbonne in Paris this Friday. This lecture will be听听called "Les 脡l茅ments de th茅ologie et le Livre des causes du Ve au XVIIe si猫cle" (The Elements of Theology and the Book of Causes from the 5th to the 17th century).
Philosophy 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Richard Atkins听听offers an introduction to Philosophy.
Associate 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Jeffrey Bloechl听co-edited听Phenomenology in a New Key: Between Analysis and History, a collection of essays honoring the writings of Professor Emeritus Richard Cobb-Stevens.听
, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Philosophy听David Storey听proposes a new interpretation of Martin Heidegger's importance for environmental philosophy.
Seelig Professor of Philosophy听Richard Kearney听and Associate Professor of Fine Arts Sheila Gallagher have collaborated on a multimedia performance commemorating the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising that will premiere at Dublin鈥檚 renowned Abbey Theatre this coming January.听
2015
Prof.听David Johnson听is a Visiting Research Fellow for the 2015-2016 academic year at the听听in Kyoto. He is working on a book on the Japanese philosopher Watsuji Tetsuro.
Associate 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Marina McCoy听spoke at a Veritas Forum lecture and conversation at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on "Vulnerability and Virtue: Misfortune, Comfort, and the Good Death" on November 12, 2015.
In听, Frederick J. Adelmann, S.J., Professor of Philosophy听John Sallis听presents artist Paul Klee's work as capable of reflecting not only surface appearance, but also hidden depth.
The work of Professor of Philosophy听Emeritus听Richard Cobb-Stevens听has served as a model for generations of philosophers. Now, several leading experts in the field from 糖心vlog直播平台, North America and Europe have听.
To fulfill the University鈥檚 Core Curriculum requirement, undergraduates must complete 15 three-credit courses, which they may select from a wide variety of offerings across the academic disciplines. For 2015鈥�16, Boston College is introducing new interdisciplinary courses, open only to first-year students, that will help satisfy the Core Requirements. These pilot courses, categorized as either 鈥淐omplex Problems鈥� courses or 鈥淓nduring Questions鈥� courses, will be taught collaboratively by two faculty members from different fields. Philosophy faculty members听听and听听will be teaching two of these.
The Center for听Christian-Jewish Learning听announced that the University of Ottawa鈥檚 Adele Reinhartz, a scholar of the New Testament and early Jewish-Christian relations, will be the 2015鈥�16 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations.
The Philosophy Department welcomes Professor听Miguel de Beistegui听as the current Gadamer Visiting Professor. He comes to us from the University of Warwick, UK. He specializes in 20th century German and French philosophy, and has published books and articles in the following areas: ontology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics and politics.
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Marina McCoy听writes on the importance of attentiveness, responsiveness, and gratitude in Ignatian Spirituality,听.
University President William P. Leahy, S.J., has announced the promotions of 23 Boston College faculty members. Among those promoted to associate professor with tenure was philosophy faculty member听Andrea Staiti.
"Theology is always practical because nothing is more practical than living in reality, living in the real world," professor听Peter Kreeft听tells听听in a Q&A about his latest book,听Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The website听听recently posted an interview with Prof.听Eileen Sweeney听(left) on the work of听. This interview joins an earlier one by Assoc. Prof.听Sarah Byers听on听. Hosted by Prof. Peter Adamson of LMU in Munich and King鈥檚 College London, the series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition, calling on experts on different figures and periods to offer their insights.
The Philosophy Department welcomes听Dermot Moran听as the current Gadamer Visiting Professor. He holds the Professorship of Philosophy (Metaphysics and Logic) at University College Dublin.
2014
With a great sense of loss the Philosophy Department announces the death of our colleague assistant professor听Jonathan Trejo-Mathys听on Friday, November 28, 2014. Jonathan leaves his wife Magdalena (Maggie) Trejo-Mathys and two daughters, Maya and Micaela. We are deeply grateful for Jonathan鈥檚 life, his work, and his presence among us.听
Philosophy Department faculty member听Eileen Sweeney听will assume the presidency of the Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy beginning this December for a two-year term. For more information please visit听.
'Hope means choosing to act in ways that lead me closer to what is good and loving, even though the future is often unknown and beyond my control.' Associate Professor of Philosophy听Marina McCoy听writes on the Examen, a Ignatian technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day, for听.
Christianity vs. secularism needn't be a zero-sum game, writes Associate Professor of Philosophy听Jeffrey Bloechl听for the听.
On November 12, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.听Richard Kearney, Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy at Boston College, will speak on the topic, 鈥淧oetics of the Sacred.鈥� Location: Boston University School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 325. This event is sponsored by Boston University鈥檚 Institute for Philosophy & Religion. For details, please call听听or e-mail听ipr@bu.edu.
S. Eve Rabinoff, a former Philosophy Department teaching fellow who received her doctorate during the past year, has received an award from the听Review of Metaphysics听for her essay on Aristotle's ethics.听
In an increasingly virtual world, are people losing touch with the sense of touch itself? And if so, so what?, asks听Seelig Professor of Philosophy听Richard Kearney听in a piece published by the听听and the听.
Videos from the 2014 Workshop in Contemporary Philosophy, "," are now available for public viewing on YouTube.
Required dating? It's an unusual aspect of a seminar taught by听Kerry Cronin, associate director of the Philosophy Department鈥檚 Lonergan Institute and a fellow in 糖心vlog直播平台's Center for Student Formation.听
Seeling Professor of Philosophy听Richard Kearney听addressed Ireland's 鈥榯raumas that were never named,鈥� notably the Great Famine, in remarks at an Abbey Theatre symposium on the role of theater in commemoration.听听| RTE's听听(at 5:50) | RTE's听听(scroll to Jan. 18 show).
Prof.听Sarah Byers' book,听Perception, Sensibility and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis,听has been released by Cambridge University Press.
Boston College hosted an 鈥淚nternational Symposium on Global Justice and Responsibility鈥� Sept. 20-21 that featured speakers from around the globe addressing issues of justice, cultural traditions and globalization. In addition to the international speakers, contributors included Professor of Sociology Charles Derber and Philosophy faculty members 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Oliva Blanchette听and, Assistant Professors听Micah Lott听and听Aspen Brinton.
The department welcomes two new full-time Professors,听Aspen Brinton听and听David W. Johnson. Aspen comes to us from Georgetown by way of The University of Pennsylvania. David joins from The State University of Pennsylvania, by way of a Research Fellowship at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya, Japan.
Andrea Staiti听was invited as a Visiting Professor at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (Germany) for the Summer Semester of 2014. He will temporarily replace Prof. Hans-Helmuth Gander, the director of the Husserl Archive, during a research leave. In Freiburg Prof. Staiti will lecture on the theory of judgment, Husserl's seminal book Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, and on the philosophical demarcation of the natural and the human sciences. He was also awarded an "Experienced Scholars" fellowship听 from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in Germany. Starting in October 2014 he will spend 12 months at the University of Cologne, Germany, to conduct research on Husserl's theory of self-constitution and its connection to contemporary Kantianism.
John Sallis, Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy, has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany (FRIAS). The Institute provides support and facilities for scholars and scientists both from Germany and from other countries. It is affiliated with the University of Freiburg. Professor Sallis will spend four months in the Institute in 2014 and will be there again in 2015. He is pursuing research in the philosophy of art.
2013
Six teaching fellows from our department receive the 2013 Professional Excellence Award for their teaching:听 Vincent DeVendra, Teresa Fenichel, Gregory Floyd, Michael Frost, Frances Maughan-Brown, and听Paul Van Rooy.
Prof. John Sallis, has been elected the recipient of a听Humboldt Research Award.
Prof. Jeff Bloechl will be distinguished visiting researcher at the Australian Catholic University in June 2013. He will lead an advanced graduate seminar on Christian philosophy, and offer the annual Simone Weil lecture on values. He will also be invited visiting professor at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in November 2013. He will lead an advanced graduate seminar on philosophy and theology in St. Paul and some modern interpreters.
Prof. Sarah Byers' book,听Perception, Sensibility and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis,听has been released by Cambridge University Press.
2012
Prof.听Dan McKaughan听has been awarded a one-year grant by the Use and Abuses of Biology Program at Cambridge University. The grant will begin on January 1, 2013.
Teresa Fenichel, Matt Robinson, Tone Svetelj and Amelia Wirts have won the 2012 Professional Excellence Award.
Jeff Witt听and听Matt Robinson, doctoral students, have accepted tenure track positions in medieval philosophy respectively at Loyola University Maryland and at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Dr.听Gary Gabor, visiting assistant professor, has accepted a tenure track position at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Prof.听Dan McKaughan听has won a grant to take part in the Wake Forest Character Project in fall 2012.
Prof. Jeff Bloechl was invited visiting professor at the Federal University of Sao Paolo in August 2012. While we has there he gave five lectures on philosophy and psychoanalysis.
2011
Professor Oliva Blanchette has won a first place 2011 Catholic Book Award in the category of biography by the Catholic Press Association (CPA) of the U.S. and Canada.听
Professor Jeff Bloechh has received the title of听Honorary Professor of Philosophy in the Australian Catholic University.
Christopher Sheridan, a biochemistry and philosophy major in 糖心vlog直播平台鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, has been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Prof. Jeffrey Hanson has taken up a tenure-track appointment at the Australian Catholic University.
Lynn Purcell, doctoral student, has received a tenure track position at SUNY Cortlan.
Elyse Purcell听will be giving two Ethics classes at Le Moyne College.
2010
Congratulations to our doctoral students who received a tenure track appointment in 2010:
Patrick Cullen (Chair/Director of Justice Studies), at Southern Hampshire University, NH
Neal Deroo, at Dordt College, IA
Erin Stackle, at Loyola Marymount University, CA
Jason Taylor, at Regis College, CO
Prof. Patrick Byrne has been appointed chairperson of the Boston College Lonergan Institute.
News from former students:
Serena Parekh accepted a tenure track position at Northeastern (philosophy dept.)
Edward McGushin accepted a tenure track position at Stonehill (philosophy dept.)
Joseph Tanke accepted a tenure track position at the University of Hawaii (philosophy dept.)
Congratulations to Elyse Purcell, Ph.D. student in the department, who is awarded the 2010 "Set the World Aflame Award". This award is given to the student who has demonstrated exceptional commitment and leadership to the Boston College Community.
Among this year's Dean's Scholars (juniors) and Sophomore Scholars, the following students are philosophy majors:
Juniors Bryan Bernfeld, Max Bindernagel, Catherine Hadshi, Lucy Martin, Scott Molony, Shane Ulbrich, Andrew Yost.
Sophomores:听Maxwell Ade, John Blakeslee, Joseph Falkson, Daniel Kennedy, Karen Kovaka, Mary Risigo, Christopher Sheridan, Matthew Vigliotta.
Congratulations to all!
2009
Professor Jim Bernauer has been appointed to the newly created Kraft Endowed Professorship.
Sarit Larry, Misael Meza Rueda, Ross Romero, and Erin Stackle received the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.
2008
Professor James Bernauer听was appointed Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.
Jon Burmeister, Neal DeRoo, Lynn Purcell, and Erin Stackle received the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.
Fr. Paul McNellis received the Mary Kaye Waldron award, a student-nominated achievement that recognizes Boston College faculty and staff members who go beyond the requirements of their job and actively improve student life on campus. He was unanimously chosen by the award committee to be the recipient this year, receiving more than half of the total nominations submitted for his involvement with the Sons of St. Patrick, his perspectives course and his experiences as a war veteran.
Dr. Gretchen Gusich, adjunct professor, has received a tenure-track position at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Dr. John O'Connor (糖心vlog直播平台 Ph.D.) moved from a full-time adjunct position at Fordham to a tenure track job at Colorado State University - Pueblo.
2007
Prof. O. Blanchette was announced as recipient of the John Findlay Book Award for Best Book in Metaphysics in Five Years, by the Metaphysical Society of America, at its annual meeting, this year, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
John Manoussakis was appointed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Churches, chaired by Walter Cardinal Kasper and the Metropolitan of Pergamos John Zizioulas.
2006
Serena Parekh has been awarded the 2006 Donald J. White Prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in humanities.
Charles Oduke, S.J., has been selected by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to receive the doctoral degree on behalf of the class at the main 2006 commencement ceremony.
Prof. Richard Kearney has received the 2006 Boston College Distinguished Senior Scholar Research Award. This award annually recognizes a substantial and continuing record of outstanding scholarly accomplishments of full-time Boston College faculty or librarians, who have achieved preeminence in their field and are so recognized in letters of support from national and international leaders in the field. Two such honors have been awarded this year. Prof. Kearney is the author of more than 20 books on European philosophy and literature, including two novels and a volume of poetry, and has edited or co-edited 14 more. A former member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College, Dublin, he has produced five series on culture and philosophy for Irish and British television and drafted a number of proposals for the Northern Ireland peace agreements.
Prof. Jorge Garcia was recently reappointed a Nonresident Fellow in Harvard's DuBois Institute for African American Research.
Prof. David Rasmussen will teach two courses in the Spring at Venice International University in Venice, Italy. Professor Rasmussen will be the first Boston College faculty member to teach at our new affiliate. Professor Rasmussen has also been named a Boston College's representative on the Academic Council of Venice International University.
John Manoussakis has been one of the recipeints of The Graduate Student Association鈥檚 Outstanding Student Award.
2005
Prof. John Sallis was awarded the degree: Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa. Universit盲t Freiburg.
Prof. Vanessa Rumble has received the 2005 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award.
Prof. Jorge Garcia (Philosophy) will join the executive board of the nation鈥檚 preeminent philosophical society, having been elected to a three-year term on the Eastern Division Executive Committee of the American Philosophical Association.
Prof. Richard Kearney has been named this year (2005) to the Cardinal Mercier Chair in Leuven University, Belgium. This prestigious Chair is offered to an internationally distinguished scholar each year who delivers two public lectures and two university seminars. The titles of Prof. Kearney's talks are as follows: 1) Narrating Desire: From Plato's 'Symposium' to the 'Song of Songs'; 2) Narrative Terror: Philosophy after 9/11; 3) Narrating Pain: Trauma and Catharsis; 4) Narrating the Sacred: A poetics of Epiphany. The public talks will be broadcast on national and European television.
2004
John Manoussakis, a Philosophy Doctoral student, has been awarded a 2004/05 Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship.
The Graduate Student Association of Boston College presented one of their annual Outstanding Graduate Student Awards to Jason Taylor (Philosophy).
Prof. Richard Kearney of the Philosophy Department has been awarded a grant of $80,000 by the EMEDIATE International Program, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The grant is to allow Professor Kearney to develop his 'Narrative and Visual Archive' on the Philosophy of Strangers, including the production of a DVD, CD-ROM, and Digital Documentary Film which will be directed by Oscar winner, Terre Nash, of Canada. This project will involve an international intervarsity seminar, facilitated by video-conferences, with partner universities in Berlin, Florence, Dublin, Paris, Budapest, Athens, Lancaster, Utrecht and Ljubljana. 糖心vlog直播平台 is the only university partner in the United States to have been chosen to participate in this 1.5 million dollar project, whose goal is to explore new possibilities of global pedagogy 'across frontiers' regarding contemporary ethical and cultural crises.
Dalia Nassar, Philosophy Doctoral student, received a 2004/05 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research Grant to work on her Dissertation in Tuebingen, Germany next year.
Alicia Jaramillo, a Doctoral student in Philosophy, has been awarded a 2004/05 Fulbright Fellowship, to study at Louvain University in Belgium next year.
Joseph Westfall, a Philosophy Doctoral student, has received a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation to conduct research at the Kierkegaard Research Center in Copenhagen this summer.
Charles Onyango-Oduke, S.J. (Philosophy) spoke at the annual Donald J. White Excellence in Teaching Awards Ceremony, held on May 6, 2004, in addition to being selected a 2004 Award recipient.
Marina Denischik,听Gregory Floyd,听Michael Frost听and听Zhuoyao Li听were among the winners of this year's annual Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award. The award recognizes graduate teaching fellows and teaching assistants who have distinguished themselves in classroom instruction.
Lonergan Center Associate Director听Kerry Cronin's philosophy class for freshmen and sophomores includes discussions of personal ethical and moral choices, and an optional assignment to explore the social experience of an old-fashioned date.听
On July 7听Jeffrey Bloechl听gave an invited lecture and seminar at the at听Rangjung Yeshe Institute听in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal. Title, 鈥淲hy are We Interested in Others? Three Phenomenological Exercises.鈥�
On July 21, 22 and 23听Jeffrey Bloechl听offered听three Dharma Endowment Lectures in Philosophy听at Christ University, in Bangalore, India. The lectures were given as a series on the topic of 鈥淪ecular Life and Secular Reason.鈥� The first developed Biblical Themes, the second Existential Themes, and the third outlined a theory of Identity and Discourse. Bloechl鈥檚 lectures were followed by three more on a related topic, and given by his wife, Catherine Cornille, chair of the Boston College department of theology.
Seelig Professor of Philosophy听Richard Kearney鈥攁uthor of the听Anatheism: Returning to God after God, in which he rejects the notion that individuals must chose between theism and atheism鈥攚as interviewed on the subject by the听.
On March 13 University President William P. Leahy, S.J., announced the tenure appointments of 13 faculty members. Among them were Philosophy Professors听Daniel J. McKaughan听and听Sarah Byers.
At a special celebration in Bamberg, Germany, on March 21, Helmut Schwartz, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (left), presented 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听John Sallis听with the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for his contributions to philosophical thought. Professor Sallis, Frederick J. Adelmann, S.J., Professor of Philosophy, is currently pursuing research in philosophy of art as a Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany (FRIAS). The Institute provides support and facilities for scholars and scientists both from Germany and from other countries. It is affiliated with the University of Freiburg. Professor Sallis will spend four months in the Institute in 2014 and will be there again in 2015. (Photo credit: Humboldt Foundation/Albrecht G. W. Barthel)
Andrea Staiti听was invited as a Visiting Professor at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (Germany) for the Summer Semester of 2014. He will temporarily replace Prof. Hans-Helmuth Gander, the director of the Husserl Archive, during a research leave. In Freiburg Prof. Staiti will lecture on the theory of judgment, Husserl's seminal book Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, and on the philosophical demarcation of the natural and the human sciences. He was also awarded an "Experienced Scholars" fellowship听 from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in Germany. Starting in October 2014 he will spend 12 months at the University of Cologne, Germany, to conduct research on Husserl's theory of self-constitution and its connection to contemporary Kantianism.