Month June 2021

Dotson from Michigan State to University of Michigan

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Professor Dotson works in epistemology, feminist philosophy (particularly Black feminism and feminist epistemology), and critical philosophy of race. You can learn more about her work here and here. She starts at the University of Michigan this coming fall. (via Tad…

Allais from UCSD to Johns Hopkins

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She starts at Hopkins this fall. Lucy Allais, currently Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, will be taking up a position as professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.…

Philosophical Input on Transportation Policy

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[Andreas Gursky, “Bahrain I” (detail)] Can philosophers help improve transportation policy? Jonathan Badgley, an economist who works with the US Department of Transportation (US DOT) and who studied philosophy as an undergraduate, thinks so. He wrote in recently to share…