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University of Michigan Creates New Cognitive Science Major

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Sarah Moss Receives Honorable Mention for the 2014 APA Article Prize

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Marshall Weinberg Gives $7.7 Million

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How would Spinoza invest?

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2012 Philosopher’s Annual Editors

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Eric Swanson promoted to Associate Professor of Philosophy with tenure

Matthew Mortellaro receives William K. Frankena Prize

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Derrick Darby, Visiting Professor

Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony by Daniel Herwitz

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Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech edited by Ishani Maitra and Mary Kate McGowan

Meaning and Normativity by Allan Gibbard

Nate Charlow receives honorable mention in the 2011 Distinguished Dissertation Award competition

The Reference Book by David Manley and John Hawthorne, April 2012

Warren Herold and Alex Silk recieve Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships

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Elizabeth Anderson Awarded 2011 APA Joseph B. Gittler Prize

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Women-Friendly Initiative Recognition 2011

Elizabeth Anderson named Director of new interdisciplinary Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)

Sarah Moss recipient of 2011 Young Epistemologist Prize

Kendall L. Walton retires from the University of Michigan

Victor Caston receives LSA Michigan Humanities Award

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Victor Caston Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Chip Sebens Awarded ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation

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Daniel Drucker Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Philosophy Department Alumnus Named 2016-17 Luce Scholar

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