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The Philosophy Department launched a new program that provides a free one-week course for high school students

What does it mean to be mentally healthy? The answer has changed over time, says philosopher and historian of science Anya Plutynski. Her research on early 20th-century “mental hygiene” practitioners shows that some providers of the era sought to establish factors and skills that boosted patients’ mental health and prevented symptoms of mental illness from arising. That’s a different goal today’s standard of care, which more often equates mental health with the mere absence of the symptoms of mental illness. With her book-in-progress, “Making Mental Health,” Plutynski, a Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Humanities, is tracking the history of this early movement and considering why their approach was abandoned.

A philosophy graduate can help you unleash your true potential as a business leader — and help you take your business to new heights

Thinking about Mechanisms

A scholar of Caribbean literatures and cultures, PhD candidate Karla Aguilar Velásquez sees her research as deeply connected with her practice as curator and museum educator. She shares her recent work with COCA that invites visitors to interact with the exhibitions — and each other.

Graduate students from a range of departments and programs were selected for their exceptional contributions in the classroom.

As part of the Center for the Literary Arts Speaker Series, award-winning author Anna Moschovakis will participate in a panel discussion and reading April 13 and 14.

Xuming He is a renowned leader in the fields of robust statistics, quantile regression, Bayesian inference, and post-selection inference. He will join Arts & Sciences from the University of Michigan.

Taylor Geospatial Institute grant will support project to measure neighborhood-by-neighborhood variations in St. Louis-area climate.

The award recognizes a junior scholar who has made valuable contributions to the field of Asian American and Pacific Islander studies early in their career.

"Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" has won a best book award and an honorable mention.

Congratulations, Dr. Renz!

A new study by Zachariah Reagh offers fresh insights into how the brain goes to great lengths to processes and remember everyday events.

Garland (“Gar”) E. Allen III, a leader in the history of genetics and eugenics, died on 10 February at age 86. Gar was at heart an activist, pushing for social justice and promoting inclusion before the concept gained its current urgency. He loved intellectual give-and-take and took pride in the lively philosophical debate generated by the books he authored. A supportive mentor, Gar devoted himself to making vulnerable students feel comfortable in university life.

In light of his recent promotion, the Duncker Digest staff wanted to dig-in with David Schuman, Director of The Writing Program, and learn a little more about him, his teaching philosophy, and the creative process itself. Despite Hurst Visits, dissertations, and a generally busy spring semester, Dave was kind enough to get back to us right away!

Bill McKinnon talks to Scientific American about NASA mission to Uranus

A saloon in the American Old West became a virtual environment for Iva Youkilis’ students to discuss, debate, and practice vocabulary about games — all in Italian.

Planetary scientists Paul Byrne and Rebecca Hahn in Arts & Sciences have created the first comprehensive map of volcanoes on Venus, pinpointing 85,000 of them. Their study was posted online in JGR Planets, and the dataset is publicly available.

The four-day conference on Stan programming and Bayesian modeling will take place June 20-23.

Paul Byrne and Rebecca Hahn map 85,000 volcanoes on Venus

The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

We’ll be in San Francisco next week!

We'll be in Louisville this weekend

In a new book about the celebrated American novelist, Matthew Shipe explores Roth’s half-century struggle with the question of what it means to be American.

The Department of Economics congratulates Phil Dybvig, the Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance in the Olin School of Business and Professor of Economics (by courtesy) in Arts & Sciences, on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics he shared with Ben Bernanke and Doug Diamond. Phil has been a generous colleague and an especially supportive mentor for our PhD students. We are all very proud of his accomplishments.

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FMS is proud to announce that major Jack Mayer’s short film, Philia, has won best LGBTQ film at the Experimental Forum Film Festival. Experimental Forum is an international film and video art festival showcasing experimental film and artists’ moving image from auteur filmmakers and innovative video artists from around the globe.

Craver wins National Science Foundation grant

Ahead of this year's Major-Minor Fair, junior Jisung Lee writes about how he discovered his course of study in Arts & Sciences.

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Phillips’ fifteenth book of poems, Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007 – 2020, looks forward as it reflects on past work.

Hawkeyed Chloe Altschul and Andy Robaina are shown being presented with their coveted Hawkeye Award mugs by Professor John Heil, their instructor and the author of the book they so carefully vetted.

Ahead of this year's Major-Minor Fair, sophomore Gracie Hime writes about how she discovered her course of study in Arts & Sciences.

Jarrett Joubert, like many undergraduate students, was initially interested in the traditional pre-med path. He completed his undergrad at Grinnell College in Iowa, followed by a master’s in biology and postbac premed certification in 2017 through University College at Washington University in St. Louis.

In an archival episode Hold That Thought, Anya Plutynski shares her story of being diagnosed with breast cancer, her opinions on debates over breast cancer screening, and ideas from her award-winning book.

Congratulations, Dr. Emily Prychitko!

Congratulations, Maria!

Congratulations, Judith!

Congratulations to senior Max Klapow on the acceptance of his submission to CAIR Conference on Inequality and Social Justice

This National Poetry Month, Carl Phillips explores “the idea of refusing to change the self.”

The Department of Philosophy is accepting applications for a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year in the Department's program in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP).

Henke wins 9th Annual Essay Prize of the Centre for Philosophical Psychology

Congratulations, Dr. Cameron Evans!

Three PNP Graduate Students will be presenting papers at the Central APA in February 2021.

Summer McKenna, a senior majoring in modern Middle Eastern studies and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology in Arts & Sciences, aims to educate and mediate as she represents the United States abroad.

Professor Mark Rollins who joined the Department of Philosophy in 1987 is retiring this summer.

Best wishes to all our Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology graduates in the Class of 2020!

Congratulations, Maria!

Joining the department in Fall 2020, welcome Riana Betzler and André Sant’Anna!

PNP Graduate Student Rick Shang shares doctoral research

Congratulations, Max!

We welcome Lori and Becko to our department.

Graham Renz's "'Assessing Recent Agent-Based Approaches to Right-Action (and More)" has been accepted for publication in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Congratulations, Graham!

We welcome Zoe and Jake to our department.

Congratulations to Gracey Belote and Judith Carlisle for their recognition in participation of the EPIC Learning Community!.

Will Fleisher's "Endorsement and Assertion" is now forthcoming in Noûs. Congratulations, Will!

Kate Schmidt (Ph.D., PNP 2019) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Kate Schmidt defends dissertation, "Epistemic Justice and Epistemic Participation."

Katie Rapier (Ph.D., PNP, 2019) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College...

The project consists in a series of seminars and research activities focused on free will, agency, and responsibility.

We congratulate graduate student Katie Rapier in successfully defending her dissertation "Moral Pathology". 

The annual event makes visible participants’ commitment to pedagogical training and reflective teaching practices.

John Doris highlights two misunderstandings that anyone who wants to understand implicit bias should know about in Scientific American.

Congratulations to Nissiya, a Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Major.

Congratulations to Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Major Jessie Lee!

Congratulations to Rick Shang!

"The Directionality of Distinctively Mathematical Explanations" has been accepted for publication in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

We are honored to announce that Deniz Ariturk, Katharine Chang, Soumya Gogia, David Gruskin, Rishi Patel, and Rishi Shah have been selected for induction into Phi Beta Kappa.

Mark Povich has successfully defended his dissertation "Model and World: Generalizing the Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation"

We are delighted to announce that David Rose (Rutgers) will join us next year as a McDonnell Post-doctoral Fellow.