Alexander T. Englert, assistant professor of philosophy, published “Why Gödel believed in the afterlife” in Synthese. Gödel's philosophy of religion remains understudied, yet Englert reveals a thinker whose religious convictions rested on sophisticated philosophical reasoning.
Faculty Accomplishments
Englert publishes on pre-eminent logician and mathematician's belief in the afterlife
Englert publishes on virtuous thinking
Alexander T. Englert, assistant professor of philosophy, published “Building a stable ‘abode of thought’: Kant’s rules for virtuous thinking” in The Conversation.
Englert publishes book on the philosophy of an ideal world
Alexander T. Englert, assistant professor of philosophy, published The Reality of the Ideal: A Study of Kant's Highest Good.
McCormick appointed
Miriam McCormick, professor of philosophy, was appointed Lewis T. Booker Professor in Ethics.
McCormick presented about wondering
Miriam McCormick, professor of philosophy, presented "Wondering with Impunity: Why it is (almost) Never Wrong to Wonder," at Zhejiang University.
McCormick published book about belief
Miriam McCormick, professor of philosophy, published Belief as Emotion.