Affiliate Professor Sarah Stitzlein gave a keynote at a philosophy conference about habits in Rome and became an official collaborator with the Interuniversity Center for Habit Studies “PhilHabits”! philhabits.org/en/ce...

PhD student I-Jan Wang recently presented his paper “How Episodic Memory Masks Embodiment in Phenomenological Methods” at APPSA-LMPST in Taiwan, and another paper “Memory of Selfhood: A Methodological Critique” at the Consciousness Research Network in Thailand!

Professor Peter Langland Hassan recently published a new paper, “The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated” in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science! Check it out: www-journals-uchicag...

This week, Affiliate Professor Sarah Stitzlein is at the National Library of Luxembourg giving an invited talk about the role of truth and honesty in a polarized and populist context!

Congratulations to Mel Andrews who recently earned their PhD and started as postdoc fellow at Princeton University with Molly Crockett and the Center for Information Technology Policy, cross-appointed with Tania Lombrozo, the AI Lab, and the Natural & Artificial Minds Initiative!

Professor Peter Langland Hassan just published a new paper “Inherent constraints on imagistic imagination” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research! Check it out: onlinelibrary-wiley-...

Congratulations to Zach Peck, who recently started his position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ramapo College of New Jersey! 🥳

The UC Philosophy Fall newsletter is now available, featuring faculty and student highlights, upcoming events, and what our department has been up to. Consider subscribing for future newsletters that come out each semester! mailchi.mp/68bdb9c5c...

Professor Melissa Jacquart (@mjacquart.bsky.social) was the keynote speaker this summer at The Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy (HCSPiP) Conference in Pedagogical Innovation! academics.hamilton.e...

Congratulations to Collin Lucken who recently earned his PhD and started his position as Hastings Postdoctoral Scholar in AI and Humanity at Bowdoin College! 🥳 See more about the Hastings initiative here: www.bowdoin.edu/news...

Congratulations to Jacob Ebbs who recently earned his PhD and started his position as Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice, Law, and Behavioral Science Program within the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Russel Sage College! 🥳

Our postdoc Kate Nicole Hoffman was a finalist for the PAMBA Prize (Philosophy of Animal Minds & Behavior Association) for her paper “Attributing Mental Disorders to Animals”, and she was invited to present it at the PAMBA conference!

Philosophy affiliate faculty Elizabeth Lanphier (@ethicselizabeth.bsky.social) and her co-author Shannon Fyfe (@sefyfe.bsky.social) have a new open access article out in Hypatia entitled “Transformative Experiences, Anticipatory Regret, and Informed Consent”! Check it out:

Check out the recent feature in UC News on the Dungeons & Dragons ethics seminars, created by Andy Cullison, executive director of the Cincinnati Ethics Center!

PhD student Damilola Oduola recently published a book review of Roberto Morozzo della Rocca’ “Saint’Egidio’s Dream: How a Catholic People’s Movement is Meeting the Challenge of AIDS in Africa and Shaping the Future of Global Health”! Check it out: networks.h-net.org/g...

Exciting news! André Curtis-Trudel, Tony Chemero (@tonychemero.bsky.social), Helen Meskhidze, Andy Cullison, and Chenxing Xie have received a major NEH grant to launch an AI humanities research center at the University of Cincinnati! (1/2) #philsky

The UC Philosophy Summer newsletter is now available, featuring faculty and student highlights, upcoming events, and what our department has been up to! Consider subscribing for future newsletters that come out each semester! mailchi.mp/f7f221052...

Watch this interview with Muhammad U. Faruque about his work on the intersections of Islamic and Western philosophy, cosmopolitanism, the self, and the environment at the University of Cincinnati. Link to full video: youtu.be/YW1L5euKz3Q #Self #Philosophy #EasternPhilosophy #Dialogue #Environment

Levels of Explanation is now out with OUP—open access! It includes a chapter from Angela Potochnik (@apotochnik.bsky.social), ‘Antireductionism has Outgrown Levels’: she argues that the idea that explanations come in levels has led philosophers astray. Link below👇 doi.org/10.1093/oso/... #philsky

Interested in Philosophy of Memory? The Philosophy of Memory Early Career Conference is happening online soon on May 22-23, 2025, co-organized by our PhD Student I-Jan Wang! www.phomo.org/events... #philsky (1/2)

Interested in public engagement with science? Check out Professor Angela Potochnik’s (@apotochnik.bsky.social) recent blog post: ‘Science and the Public’! #philsky blog.apaonline.org/2...

Interested in the discussion around medical vs. neurodiversity models? Check out PhD Student Ilir Isufi’s (@ilirisufi.bsky.social) brief open peer commentary in AJOB Neuroscience: www.tandfonline.com/... #philsky

PhD student Damilola Oduola presented her paper “Weathering and Social Justice: Examining the Impact of Chronic Stress and Health Disparities” at APPE!

Affiliate faculty Elizabeth Lanphier (@ethicselizabeth.bsky.social) has a new article out, “Advocacy, Bioethics, and Regulating COVID-19 Vaccines for Children Under 5” with Ami Harbin (Oakland University) in the Journal of Health Advocacy! Link below 👇 #philsky

PhD student Carlos Muñoz-Serna recently published a book review of David Huron’s ‘The Science of Sadness: A New Understanding of Emotion’! Check out the review on H-Net 👇 www.h-net.org/review... #philsky

Philosophers are among those eligible to apply to this postdoc with the Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. Our department @ucphilosophy.bsky.social would be happy to engage with anyone in the position interested in our work. #philsky

Application review begins today for this postdoc at @ucphilosophy.bsky.social

Professor Angela Potochnik (@apotochnik.bsky.social) recently gave a talk titled ‘Causes don’t push’ at the Causality in Complex Systems workshop at the University of Cologne! www.tobiashenschen.n...

Our Ph.D. student, Ilir Isufi (@ilirisufi.bsky.social), just published a book review of "Language as an Ecological Phenomenon: Languaging and Bioecologies in Human-Environment Relationships" (Bloomsbury, 2024)! You can find it here: link.springer.com/ar...

Professor Peter Langland-Hassan recently gave a talk titled ‘Why AI is (Probably) Creative, and Why That’s OK’ at the Gould Center for Humanities at Claremont McKenna College! This was aimed at a broad interdisciplinary audience of people interested in the topic. #philsky #philosophy

Professor Melissa Jacquart (@mjacquart.bsky.social) recently presented on the ‘Role for Philosophy of Science in Public Engagement With Science’ at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (@aaas.org) conference!

Today, Professor Angela Potochnik (@apotochnik.bsky.social) is at Tilburg University presenting 'Science and the Public' at a workshop titled 'Philosophy of Science by All Means: animals, machines, ideology, and the public'! philevents.org/event...

Looking for philosophy of science journals? 📚 The PSA website has a dedicated journals page - a great resource for the field! Check it out: www.philsci.org/jour... Find a missing favorite? 📄 Submit journal suggestions via the link at the bottom of the page! #PhilSky

Check out Professor Tony Chemero's (@tonychemero.bsky.social) recent feature in the Guardian article ‘All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot’! Here’s the link 👇 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Our Spring philosophy newsletter is now available, featuring faculty and student highlights, upcoming events, and what our department has been up to! Consider subscribing for future newsletters that come out each semester! Read the latest newsletter and subscribe here:

Thanks to fellow @ucphilosophy.bsky.social grad @clif-clemotte.bsky.social for contributing to the Grad Student Chronicles on the Blog of the APA! Check out his post about auto mechanics and philosophy 🧰🧑‍🔧📚 shorturl.at/amzXH

We’re hiring! Postdoc in comparative philosophy or history of philosophy with 1-1 teaching load, including a grad seminar in the postdoc’s AOS. Please email search committee chair Eduardo Martinez with any questions. #philsky #philjobs philjobs.org/job/show/28842

Attending the Central APA? Find PhD Student @brilarson.bsky.social co-chairing a session at @theaapt.bsky.social Teaching Hub called ‘Why Graduate Students Should Get Involved in High School Summer Philosophy Programs’!

Check out ‘What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color’ on the Veritasium YouTube channel, featuring affiliate Professor Nate Morehouse’s spider lab!

Check out philosophy professor Tom Polger’s coauthored paper "How Do Computational Models in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Explain?” now available online, with Cédric Brun and Jan Pieter Konsman (University of Bordeaux): in the European Journal of Neuroscience! Link below 👇

PhD student Kyle Yrigoyen will be presenting his paper ‘When is AI Development Irresponsible? Engineering Role Responsibilities and Responsible Innovation’ at the 34th Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Conference in Norfolk VA! #philsky #philtech #aiethics

Professor Eduardo Martinez is presenting a co-authored paper titled ‘Democracy’s Attention Problem’ this weekend at the Democracy and Social Change Workshop, and in March at the Conference on Constitutional Democracy in Crisis! Links below 👇

Professors Angela Potochnik (@apotochnik.bsky.social) and Melissa Jacquart (@mjacquart.bsky.social) recently published a Cambridge Element titled ‘Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project’! It’s open access, check it out at this link! #philsky #Philsci

Affiliate Professor Sarah Stitzlein has received two awards for her recent book, ‘Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era’: the John Dewey Society Outstanding Achievement Award and the North American Association for Philosophy and Education Outstanding Book Awards! congrats, Sarah! 🥳

PhD student Damilola Oduola recently published ‘How Philosophy Departments in the U.S. Can Support Their International Graduate Students’ in the APA Grad Student Chronicles!

PhD Student Collin Lucken and recent PhD Tim Elmo Feiten recently published their paper ‘Leveraging Participatory Sense-Making and Public Engagement with Science for AI Democratization’ in the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science! Congrats Collin and Elmo!

@mjacquart.bsky.social was awarded the David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching by the APA! The APA (@apaphilosophy.bsky.social) is one of the largest professional organizations for academic and public philosophy and only gave 16 prizes for the fall. Congrats, Melissa! 🥳

Interested in Ethics? Check out Andy's interview about his work and doing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Cincinnati! https://youtu.be/Il1y1wigCdY?si=ZSkY0gnDuAUVTIYy #Ethics #Metaethics #Seemings #Bioethics #Philosophyofreligion #philsky

Our PhD student, Zach Peck, recently published his article 'Towards an enactivist account of what constitutes collective action' in the journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences! 🥳 #philsci #philsky

If you're interested in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and the history of analytic philosophy, and what it's like to get a PhD in philosophy in Cincinnati check out Tom Polger's interview! Full video: https://buff.ly/4hPZMrh #philsky #philsci