Philosophy Undergraduates Awarded Department Scholarships

Philosophy undergraduate majors Alexander Barry and Kevin Lie are the recipients of the Cattron-Woodbridge Scholarships and majors Glory Hall and Wolfgang Tattenbach are the recipients of the Dr. Eldon L. and Helen H. Stevens Scholarship. Each of the scholarships confers a stipend of $1,000 for AY2014-15, made possible through the generosity of our donors.

Lawrence Cattron was a philosophy major in 1930 and found the experience to be invaluable in shaping his life and career. Frederick Woodbridge was an early 20th century American philosopher who taught at Minnesota. Helen Stevens, in appreciation of the opportunity the university gave her and her husband, established the scholarship in honor of him in order to make the same opportunity available to the upcoming generation of philosophers.

Philosophy Undergraduates Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Five undergraduate students majoring in philosophy have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most highly regarded academic honor society in the United States, by the Alpha Chapter of the University of Minnesota: Karl-Magnus Gustav Brose, Brendan M. Caldwell, Maxwell S. Davis, Claire Marie Holtz, and Nathan Michael Omdalen. Congratulations!

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships Awarded

Congratulations to John "Jack" Powers on being selected as recipient for 2015-2016 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

“Criteria of Characterizational Adequacy and Philosophy of Science,”
Adviser: Alan Love.

College of Liberal Arts First Year Fellowship Awarded

Max W. Dresow, Adviser: Alan Love
Saint Olaf College, Biology, B.A. 2010
University of Minnesota, Evolution, Ecology, and Biology, MSc., 2015

Undergraduates Receive Selmer Birkelo Scholarships

Congratulations to undergraduate philosophy majors Wolfgang Tattenbach and Jonathan Willard, who were recently awarded 2014-15 CLA Selmer Birkelo Scholarships. To be considered for a Birkelo Scholarship, students must be majoring in fields relating to history, modern languages, classics, or the social and behavioral sciences, and must be nominated to the Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs by their major department. For the 2014-15 academic year, Birkelo Scholarship recipients will receive up to $4,000, dependent on demonstrated financial need.

Graduate Student Spotlight: Awards and Highlights

Brian Wilson has been selected as a 2014-2015 recipient for the Global Spotlight Doctoral Dissertation Award through the Global Programs and Strategy Alliance (GPS Alliance). Read more about his research here.

Shay Logan was recently highlighted in CLA Reach Magazine. Read more about his dissertation project on the philosophical analysis of mathematical practice here.

New Faculty Member To Join the Department

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Samuel Fletcher will join the faculty in Fall 2015. His work focuses on the foundations of physics and of statistics, and explores how problems in these fields inform and are informed by broader issues in the philosophy of science. Additional interests include the conceptual and physical basis of computation, the philosophy of applied mathematics, and the history of physics and philosophy of science.