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Letter from the Chair in This Issue Letter from the Chair In this Issue Dear Students, Colleagues, Friends, and Letter from the Chair 1 Alumni: Faculty Activities 1-8 When, after eight years of being department Editor’s Note 2 head at Purdue University, I arrived on Interview with Matthias campus this past summer, I could Steup 3 immediately tell that CU Boulder’s Approaching Infinity 5 Department of Philosophy is a thriving place with an exciting f uture. Here are just a few Student Accomplishments 6 events that I had the pleasure of witnessing CVSP News 8 first hand: Professor Matthias Steup Incoming Class 9 @ The Summer Seminar for outstanding Boulder’s Origins Project, directed by the Graduation 10 undergraduates, directed by David Boonin Department’s philosopher of science and team-taught by members of the Carol Cleland, brings together scholars Donation Opportunity 11 Department, attracted as usual a group of from a wide spectrum of specialties to investigate the origins of things like our highly motivated students. This year’s topic Faculty Activities was “Paradoxes and Puzzles.” I myself planet, life, human beings, civilizations, taught a session on skepticism and had a and ideologies. 2015-2016 wonderful experience discussing I am extremely impressed by the David Boonin spent the 2015- epistemology with these talented young Department’s Center for Values and Social 2016 academic year serving as philosophers. Policy (CVSP), its Committee for the Chair of the Department and as @ On July 10, the Center for Western History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS), the Associate Director of the Civilization, Thought and Policy, the the Climate Committee, and the local Department’s Center for Values and Social Policy. He also found Center for Values and Social Policy and chapter of the national Minorities and our Department’s new Minorities and time to complete a draft of a Philosophy group (MAP), and its newly book he has been working on on Philosophy chapter jointly held a instituted practice of hosting Visiting workshop on affirmative action that posthumous harm and to Fellows: produce early drafts of a few featured five specialists on the topic: short pieces on other subjects. He @ The CVSP, directed by David Boonin, Lawrence Blum (UMass Boston), Bernard also developed a new under- Boxill (UNC Chapel Hill), Stephen offers a regular Friday 12:00-1:00 well- graduate course on sexual ethics Kershnar (SUNY Fredonia), Judith attended talk followed by a that he plans to begin teaching in Lichtenberg (Georgetown), and George faculty/graduate student lunch. The 2017-18. During the summer of Sher (Rice). Center hosts several visiting fellows 2016, Prof. Boonin directed the @ The 9 th annual Rocky Mountains Ethics throughout the year and has recently Colorado Summer Seminar in Conference (RoME), August 11-14, begun a promising collaboration with CU Philosophy, which brought organized by Alastair Norcross and Boulder’s Law School. talented undergraduates from a @ CHPS organizes a Distinguished Visitor wide variety of institutions to Benjamin Hale, was once again a stunning Boulder for an intensive, speaker series and hosts an annual Boulder success. Larry Blum (University of three-week course on the subject Massachusetts at Boston), David Brink Conference on the History and of “Paradoxes and Puzzles.” His (University of California at San Diego), and Philosophy of Science. This year’s term as Department Chair also Nomy Arpaly (Brown) gave the keynote conference, held from October 28-30, was ended over the summer, at which talks. on the topic of gravity from antiquity to point he took over as Director of @ The Inaugural Workshop on the Study of the present. the Center for Values and Social Origins was held August 15-17. CU @ With the aim of ensuring a friendly and Policy. inclusive environment for the Department’s for our graduate students. I am extremely Carol Cleland co-authored an activities, the Climate Committee has grateful to CU Boulder’s administration, article on ethical issues in articulated Best Practices for faculty and particularly Dean Steve Leigh and Associate astrobiology in an edited student conduct. This year, the committee Dean Valerio Ferme, not only for collection from Cambridge will begin investigating why, when we look at supporting these activities with generous University Press. She gave an the enrollment figures of 1000 through 4000 multi-year funding support for the CVSP, invited talk to a workshop level undergraduate courses, the percentage CHPS, and the Climate Committee, but also sponsored by the Joint Genome of women students decreases. The purpose for giving the Department the green light to Institute & Boundaries of Life of this study is to find out whether there are hire Heather Demarest, who is currently an Initiative (Lawrence-Berkeley ways, at the undergraduate level, to Assistant Professor at the University of Lab). She spent the spring of 2016 on sabbatical as a Visiting Fellow counteract the small number of women who Oklahoma. She received a B.A. in at the Center for Philosophy of earn Ph.D.’s in philosophy. philosophy and a B.A. in physics from CU Science at the University of Boulder, a B.Phil. from Oxford, where she @ Several of the Department’s graduate Pittsburgh, where she gave talks studied with Timothy Williamson and John students recently founded, with the to the Departments of History & Hawthorne, and then her Ph.D. from Philosophy of Science, and assistance of faculty advisor Adam Hosein, Rutgers University, with Barry Loewer, Geology & Planetary Science. a local chapter of MAP. This group will Jonathan Schaffer, and Branden Fitelson as Cleland gave the Dunbar Lecture host reading groups, talks, and workshops her advisors. As a specialist in metaphysics at Millsapp College and an invited on topics that fall under the umbrella of and the philosophy of science, she will meet talk to the University of diversity and inclusion, such as philosophy Mississippi Medical School. A our teaching needs in the area of philosophy of gender, race, sexual orientation, and Swedish geologist invited her to of physics and strengthen our profile in the disability. participate in a session on metaphysics/epistemology area. We expect @ In the spring semester, the following drumlins at the annual meeting of that she will take over as the new director of philosophers will visit the Department, the European Geological Union, CHPS and bring valuable expertise to our and she wrote a short essay on each for about three weeks: Nina Emery Climate Committee. drumlins for the Philosophy of (Brown) in February, Julia Staffel I hope you are as impressed as I am by Paleontology Blog. She gave (Washington University) in March, and the array of activities, events and news I invited talks at the University of Kris McDaniel (Syracuse) in April. In the have described above. If you have any Bern (Switzerland) and at the fall of 2017, Peter Klein (Rutgers) will Tokyo Institute of Technology. questions or would like to hear more about visit. Each visiting fellow will give one or She is on the Program Committee us, please don’t hesitate to send me an email more talks and visit several class. for the biennial meeting of the at [email protected]. Philosophy of Science Associa- All of this adds up to an amazing amount of tion and Director of CU intellectual energy and scholarly activity – a Matthias Steup Boulder’s new multidisciplinary perfect scholarly environment, particularly Chair, Department of Philosophy Center for the Study of Origins, which is part of the Grand Challenge Initiative. Note from the editor Iskra Fileva ’s edited volume Questions of Character , to which she There are amazing changes in this year’s could cause some confusion (presumably also contributed a chapter, was issue. First: Matthias suggested that we come because readers could read it as the journal published by Oxford University up with a new name for this newsletter, of tribal wisdom and would thus expect Press in October 2016. This something more interesting than “Philosophy practical advice on premodern life). Finally, project took three years to complete, and Iskra is very Department Newsletter.” Cherie Braden Cheryl Abbate suggested the winning title, pleased that it’s all done now. Her suggested “Newsletter of the Philosophy “Sisyphus’ Boulder,” which aptly expresses article “Ontology of Personality” Department,” but this was deemed too the feelings of all those who undertake the is forthcoming in the Encyclopedia wordy. I suggested “The Journal of seemingly endless task of editing this of Personality and Individual Philosophy,” but Matthias thought this could newsletter. Differences . Considering how slow cause confusion with another periodical that Also, we’re now taking philosophical academics tend to be, this article he was aware of. I next proposed “The articles for Sisyphus’ Boulder (department will likely be listed as Journal of Phylosophy” (this name derives members can direct submissions to me). “forthcoming” on her CV for two from the Greek roots sophia , meaning Members should of course list publications more years. And when the “wisdom,” and phyle , meaning “tribe” – in SP on their curricula vita. encyclopedia does eventually come out, the price will be hence, it would be the journal of the wisdom absolutely prohibitive. If you are tribe). But Matthias still thought that this Michael Huemer 2 Sisyphus’ Boulder eager to learn what personality is, Interview with Matthias Steup email Iskra for a draft of her encyclopedia entry. On the bright Matthias Steup is the newest member of the mainstream exposure in Germany, much side, her paper “The Duties of an department. This fall, Mike Huemer asked him a more than in the U.S. Publicly funded, Artist,” in which she discusses the few questions to help us get to know him better and Universities are tuition free, charging merely moral hurdles film directors face verify whether he is a brain in a vat.
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