Philosophy Hall at night, viewed from Sproul Plaza

News

New book by John Campbell

Professor John Campbell, and his collaborators physicist Saul Perlmutter and psychologist Robert MacCoun, have a new book: Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense (Little Brown Spark). You can read a bit about the book at the Wall Street Journal here.

May 08, 2024

Outstanding GSI Awards

We’re very grateful to all of our GSis, who take on a huge responsibility in teaching and mentoring our ever-increasing numbers of undergraduates. Each year, Berkeley’s Graduate Division selects a few GSIs to receive the Outstanding GSI award. This years recipients in Philosophy are Raha Ahmadian, Scott Casleton, Madeleine Levac. Philosophy graduate student Warren Thimothe has also won an Outstanding GSI Award for his work as a GSI in Political Science. Congratulations Raha, Scott, Madeleine, and Warren!

May 03, 2024

Fink and Schwayder Prize Winners

The Fink and Shwayder Prizes are awarded in recognition of genuinely accomplished work on the part of our graduate students, work of the kind that goes considerably beyond the level necessary for successful completion of the course requirements in our graduate program. This year’s Fink Prize winner is Edward Schwartz. This year’s Schwayder Prize winner is Hannah DeBrine. Congratulations Edward! Congratulations Hannah!

May 03, 2024

Congratulations to Professor Bailey

Olivia Bailey has been named a recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award for Northern California. She has also been awarded the Inta Hasenkamp Teaching Excellence Award, which is given to just one of the Teaching Laureates every year. Well done, Olivia, and thank you for your excellent work!

April 25, 2024

Events this week

Thu May 16, 2024–Fri May 17, 2024
Howison Library
8 AM–6 PM
Conference
Sara Aronowitz, Jennifer Carr, Thomas Icard, Michael Rescorla, David Thorstad, Francesca Zaffora Blando
Berkeley Bounded Rationality Workshop