Archived Faculty News

• Assistant Professor Georgi Gardiner and artist Ashley Ekstrum receive the Gaudy Gold Frame Show third-place award for artwork collaboration exploring the metaphysics of objects
• Georgi Gardiner receives the Provost's Research and Creative Achievement Award for Professional Promise
• Assistant Professor Georgi Gardiner Discusses Love on the Empowered Relationship Podcast
• Assistant Professor Georgi Gardiner's course was Featured in the APA's Syllabus Showcase
• 40 Under 40 class of 2022: Knox News unveils top young professionals list
• Assistant Professor Georgi Gardiner receives the Chancellor's Notable Woman Award
• Collaborative research from graduate student Jacob Smith and assistant professor Georgi Gardiner featured in the University of Cardiff's "Open for Debate"
• 2021 Philosophy Commencement and Awards Ceremony
• Gardiner receives ACLS Fellowship for research on the epistemology of legal proof and rape accusations
• Graduate student Jacob Smith and assistant professor Georgi Gardiner have been awarded a Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) award for their research on character evidence law
• Recent PhD, Devon Brickhouse-Bryson, publishes revised dissertation as book
• Thalos publishes a lighthearted article about a philosopher working from home
• Gehrman Pens Opinion Piece on UT Student Athletes
• Garthoff, Shteynberg, Bentley Publish Interdisciplinary Paper on Collective Learning
• Gardiner Wins Philosophy Essay Contest
• Garthoff Receives Collaborative Research Award
• David Frank publishes new paper
• Thalos Publishes Article on the Language of Freedom
• David Frank publishes article with with Daniel Simberloff, Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science in the UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Review of performance by the Kibeka Trio joined by flutist, violinist and philosophy lecturer Margaret Moore
• David Frank publishes article "Media representation of hemlock woolly adelgid management risks: a case study of science communication and invasive species control" in Biological Invasions
• Thalos Discusses Concept of Freedom
• David Frank have been awarded the 2018 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize
• Rinehold, Windeknecht Participate in Research Day
• Future faculty member, Georgi Gardiner awarded the Distinguished Scholarly Achievement at Rutgers University
• Lecturer, Nolan Hatley, has his paper, “The Early Nietzche’s Alleged Anthropocentrism” published in the Summer 2018 edition of Environmental Ethics
• Nolan Hatley has paper, "The Green Antichrist? Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity and the Development of an Environmental Philosophy of Religion", accepted for presentation at the 2018 Long Island Philosophical Society meeting in April 2018
• Lecturer, David Frank, to participate in the Spring Veritas on March 1, 2018
• Associate Professor Adam Cureton will be giving a talk at TEXxUTK on February 10, 2018 titled, “What Hiding my Disability Taught me About Care and Respect.”
• Nora Berenstain recently gave a talk titled, “Active Ignorance and the Rhetoric of Biological Race Realism” at the University of Minnesota on December 1st to a 230-person audience at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
• Congratulations to faculty member, Adam Cureton, who has been awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Diversity Leadership Award
• Ryan Windeknecht will be hosting two Teaching and Learning Center workshops November 1st and November 8th
• Nora Berenstain recently attended the Gaslighting and Epistemic Injustice conference at Claremont McKenna College where she presented a talk titled, “Whitewashing as Gaslighting in Feminist Epistemology” on September 23rd.
• John Nolt awarded Distinguish Service Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences
• Jon Garthoff to give a talk entitled, “Freedom, Responsibility, and Animal Moral Status” at the Law School at the University of Illinois on Friday, October 6th, 2017
• EJ Coffman has been reappointed as a Lindsay Young Professor for the period August 1, 2017 through July 31, 2019
• Nolt Honored at Annual Faculty Awards Banquet
• David Palmer is the 2016 recipient of the David V. and Kathryn G. White Undergraduate Teaching Award
• Markus Kohl had two papers accepted summer 2016
• Nora Berenstain’s feminist epistemology paper "Epistemic Exploitation" was accepted for publication in Ergo
• Nora Berenstain receives the 2015 College Convocation Award for the Development of Interdepartmental Collaboration in Scholarship & Research from the UT College of Arts & Sciences
• David Palmer is the 2016recipient of the David V. and Kathryn G. White Undergraduate Teaching Awar
• E.J. Coffman recently promoted to Full Professor
• Susan Williams has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Mary Lynn Glustoff Clerical Award
• David Frank will be joining the department in the fall with a joint lectureship between the departments of Philosophy and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Fall Veritas forum featured Associate Professor Shaw in conversation with Dr. Marina McCoy, exploring how the ancient Greeks and the early Christians reflected on "Vulnerability and Virtue."
• Lecturer Josh Watson's paper"Thinking Animals and the Thinking Parts Problem," a paper on the metaphysics of human persons, has been accepted for publication in The Philosophical Quarterly
• Trevor Hedberg and John Nolt will engage in a student/teacher philosophical debate in the forthcoming collection - Ecology, Ethics, and Hope
• Assistant Professor Markus Kohl has been awarded an NEH Summer fellowship for work on his project on "Kant on Freedom: In theory and practice."
• Assistant Professor Kristina Gehrman will spend AY15-16 as a fellow with the Tennessee Humanities Center
• Assistant Professor David Palmer discusses his recent book
• The Department is pleased to announce that the 2015 fall graduate 'super seminar' on 'mind and language' to be taught by Assistant Professor Avery Archer will feature visits by John Brunero (Missouri-St. Louis); Kieran Setiya (MIT) and Nomy Arpaly (Brown)
• John Hardwig, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, published an invited OpEd in the Washington Post
• Lecturer Margaret Moore's article, "Mere Exposure to Bad Art," was selected as one of the five best articles in aesthetics and the philosophy of art for 2013
• Lecturer Margaret Moore's co-edited volume, "Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art," is now available
• Congratulations to Assistant Prof. Markus Kohl
• John Nolt's new monograph, "Environmental Ethics for the Long Term," has just been published by Routledge
• EJ Coffman's work during a Tennessee Humanities Center Fellowship will soon be available
• Lecturer Roger Turner's paper "More on Religious Exclusivism: A Reply to Richard Feldman" will appear in "Faith and Philosophy"
• Stephen Martin will be joining the Department as a full time lecturer this coming year
• Nora Berenstain has arranged for visits by Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State), Jessica Wilson (Toronto) and Katherine Brading (Notre Dame) to her Spring 2015 graduate 'super seminar'
• Adam Cureton recognized for his outstanding student advising with a Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Advising
• Kristina Gehrman will join its faculty as assistant professor of philosophy starting in August 2014
• UT lecturer Karen Ehlebracht Smith has taken a new job as a clinical ethicist with the Wheaton- Franciscian Healthcare group in SE Wisconsin
• UT Philosophy welcomes two visiting scholars for AY13-14
• Lecturer Margaret Moore's published research generates some press/public discussion
• Samuel Duncan will join us as a full time lecturer next year, AY2013-14
• EJ Coffman has been named a Lindsay Young Humanities Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences
• Lecturer Alex Feldt's dissertation was selected as the recipient of 2012 University of Oklahoma Provost’s Ph.D. Dissertation Award
• Avery Archer will be joining us as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2013
• EJ Coffman and John Nolt have been awarded a research sabbatical for AY13-14
• Lecturer Lisa Hicks successfully defended her dissertation on Nietzsche and will receive her PhD from the University of Chicago later this term
• Assistant Professor Clerk Shaw's book manuscript has been contracted for publication by Cambridge University Press
• David and Kathryn White Undergraduate Teaching Award
• EJ Coffman awarded UT Chancellor's Grant
• Lecturer Margaret Moore’s paper, “Mere Exposure to Bad Art” is now forthcoming in the British Journal of Aesthetics
• Welcome to new lecturer Margaret E. Moore
• The Department welcomes several new lecturers to its faculty ranks for 2012-13
• Lecturer Adam Kadlac will be taking a new position next year at Wake Forest University
• David Palmer named one of this year’s recipients of a Chancellor’s Teaching Award
• Lecturer Matthew Pamental’s essay “Pragmatism, Metaphysics, and Bioethics: Beyond a Theory of Moral Deliberation” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
• Ms. Susan Williams selected as the 2012 Extraordinary Customer Service Award winner
• Ayca Boylu will be joining the department for AY 2012-13 as a visiting assistant professor
• Markus Kohl will be joining the UT Department of Philosophy in August 2012
• Nora Berenstain will be joining the faculty in August 2012 as Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• EJ Coffman announces Fall 2012 graduate “super seminar” focused on contemporary virtue epistemology
• John Nolt will be publishing a new text book, "An Introduction to Environmental Ethics: An Intergenerational Perspective," with Routledge Publishing
• Lecturer Colin McQuillan a Kant scholar, among other things, has received a contract from Northwestern University Press to publish his book, tentatively titled "On the Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason"
• Lecturer Shidan Lotfi. Shidan successfully defended his dissertation, "A Theory of Flourishing," at Florida State University
• John Nolt and incoming faculty member Jon Garthoff secure a UT Haines Morris Grant to support a Spring 2012 symposium focused on animals, ethics and law
• The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Colin McQuillan will be joining the department as a lecturer next year
• Brian Chance has had his paper "Causal Powers, Hume's Early German Critics, and Kant's Response to Hume" accepted for publication by Kant-Studien
• Berry Cave Salamander as an endangered species
• The Department is very pleased and fortunate to be able to announce the addition of four new members as of August, 2011: Adam Cureton, John Garthoff, David Palmer, and Matthew Pamental
• Third Faculty Search Approved
• Associate Professor Heather Douglas wins National Science Foundation Scholars Award
• Two faculty searches approved
• John Nolt and Lee Shepski receive grants to bring distinguished visitors to campus
• EJ Coffman receives grant to put on Spring 2011 symposium on “The Ethics of Belief”
• Shidan Lotfi Joins Department
• Brian Chance Joins Department
• Heather Douglas Delivers Commentary on Keynote Address at 2010 CSPO Conference
• Ted Richards Has Two Articles Accepted for Publication
• Ted Richards' Edited Collection Soccer & Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game Release This Month
• Associate Professor David Reidy Appointed Department Head
• John Hardwig, Professor of Philosophy, Announces Retirement
• Two Lecturer (Teaching) Positions Available
• Review of Heather E. Douglas, Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal
• Heather Douglas, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
• Douglas's Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal published this May by University of Pittsburgh Press
• Two UT Knoxville Faculty Named National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows
• Reidy wins NEH Fellowship
• Reidy wins Berger Prize: Second Time in the Previous Three Awards
• Lee Shepski Joins Department
• Associate Professor David Reidy named one of eight Lindsay Young Professors for 2008-9
• Lee Shepski (University of Arizona) joins department next Fall
• Betsy Postow, In Memoriam
• Reidy Book Recognized
• Douglas Wins Interdisciplinary Studies Award
• Arnold Receives SARIF Research Grant
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