June 26th, 2024
Dear Alumnae and Alumni
Warm greetings to you all!
With academic year 23/24 now behind us, I’d like to highlight some of the accomplishments of our students and faculty this past year, and fill you in on the Department’s programs and activities.
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As I write, seven of our talented undergraduates are working on the projects supported by the Karbank Summer Fellowship program. To mention just a few: one of our students will attend the World Congress of 哲学 in Rome; another plans to produce a rendition of Kant’s Groundwork for a Metaphysics of Morals comprehensible to children; another will attend the 6th Crete Summer School of Linguistics and the 35th European Summer School in Logic. We continue to be indebted to Steve Karbank for his on-going generous support of our undergraduates.
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Our graduate students continue to publish and receive awards in recognition of their fine work. Several were awarded competitive dissertation fellowships sponsored by BU’s Center for the Humanities. In addition to teaching their courses and attending to their own research projects, they organized workshops and discussion groups. In March, they once again hosted their own conference, “Valuing Research and Researching Values: How to Bridge the Gaps between Ethics and Science”. On the Placement front, two of our recent PhDs accepted tenure track appointments: Marie Feldblyum Le Blevennec will start as Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama this fall; Paul Goldberg will begin his appointment at Tutor at St John’s College (Annapolis). Jack Harris accepted a position as Teaching Assistant Professor at North Carolina State. It continues to be the case that our graduate students do quite well in an intensely competitive job market.
In the Fall, the Department welcomed Professor Bernard Reginster from Brown University as our Findlay Visiting Professor. That semester, colleagues organized workshops, for instance, on Iris Murdoch and on Early Modern 哲学 and Slavery. In the Spring, we hosted the Boston Area Kant Colloquium, the Boston Phenomenology Circle, and a conference called The Nature of Devotion: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives. In short, the Department was bursting with activity. This may in part explain why we once again received many requests from PhD students and advanced researchers to visit under the supervision of our faculty. We welcomed two philosopohers from China, one from Germany, one from Italy, and a recent University of Chicago PhD on a postdoc fellowship to study Heidegger with Professor Dahlstrom.
On behalf of the entire Department, I encourage you to stay in touch with us. Our new Senior Program Coordinator, Sammi Lewis, prepares regular newsletters about the Department, and we would be happy to make the newsletters available to you. If you are interested, please send a message to Sammi at: casphilo@bu.edu. You are of course always welcome to drop by to visit us on Commonwealth Avenue and attend our events. A good way to keep informed about Department news and activities is to consult the calendar of events Sammi posts on our webpage /philo/, or to use this link: bu.edu/philo/events.
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As I step down as Chair at the end of this month and pass the torch to my colleague Walter Hopp, I wish to take this opportunity to express my thanks to all of you who have supported the Department, whether financially or in other ways. Once again, I encourage you to stay in touch with us. Let us send you our Newsletter, and please drop by to see us should you find yourself in Boston.
With very best wishes,
Sally Sedgwick
Chair, Department of 哲学
ssedgw@bu.edu