Ohio State Philosophy

04/29/2026

Congratulations to Justin D'Arms for being selected as a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor!

This award serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service, and research/creative activity, and whose work has demonstrated significant impact on their fields, students, college and university, and/or the public.

04/29/2026

Owain Griffin is this year's Graduate Teaching Award recipient! The Graduate Teaching Award recognizes excellence in teaching by graduate instructors who demonstrate outstanding pedagogical skill, commitment to student learning, and contributions to the department’s educational mission. Congratulations Owain!

04/28/2026

The Fink Prize is awarded in recognition of an outstanding graduate student essay in philosophy.

Congratulations to Shao-An Hsu, winner of this year’s Fink Award for his paper, “Rigidity, Open Texture, and Natural Kind Terms.” An honorable mention goes to Charles Crumpler for his paper “Purity of Method and Higher-Order Resources”.

The Fink Committee, chaired by Professor Abe Roth with Professors Stewart Shapiro and Neil Tennant, noted the overall strength of this year’s submissions.

04/23/2026

The Bingham Award is designed to recognize undergraduate excellence in Philosophy, and is awarded on the basis of a student essay written during the school year.

The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that Tabitha Skelding has won this year’s Bingham Award for her paper, Aristotle’s Biological Sciences and the Concept of Species”. Tabitha's work was selected by the Bingham Committee, chaired by Professor Lisa Downing with committee members Robert Kraut and Neil Tennant.

Congratulations to Tabitha, and many thanks to the Bingham Committee for their thoughtful work in evaluating the submissions!

04/23/2026

Shoshanah Calland, an Honors student majoring in English and Philosophy, organized the first Undergraduate Philosophy Research Symposium, held at the Ohio Union on Wednesday, April 8. Original research projects were presented by Shoshanah herself, as well as by Isaac Astifan, Klaus Chamberlain, Chloe Chung, Cameron Poston and Jack Rose. Shoshanah also worked this year as the Editor in Chief of the fourth volume of Sorge, a Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy at Ohio State. That volume is now available, and features work by three of our students: Tabitha Skelding, Jack Rose, and Jonas Watkins. Thank you to Shoshanah for her hard organizational work this year, and congratulations to all of our successful young scholars!

10/07/2025

https://philosophy.osu.edu/news/welcome-undergraduate-philosophy-ambassadors

The Department of Philosophy is delighted to introduce this year’s Undergraduate Philosophy Ambassadors. Each year, the department appoints ambassadors to help build community, assist with outreach and recruitment, and share their enthusiasm for philosophy with fellow students. Please join the dep...

08/27/2025

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five students to our graduate program. Christopher Caldwell, Richard Coulter, Charlette Hwang, Yuxuan Luo, and Joseph Phelan have a variety of philosophical interests and ambitions.

The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome five students to our graduate program. Christopher Caldwell, Richard Coulter, Charlette Hwang, Yuxuan Luo, and Joseph Phelan have a variety of philosophical interests and ambitions. Read more about their backgrounds and future plans.

05/12/2025

https://philosophy.osu.edu/news/lincoln-lundgren-defends-honors-thesis

On April 24, Lincoln Lundgren defended his Honors thesis “Completing the Coincidence Argument against Metaethical Non-Naturalism”; a shortened version of his thesis also won the department’s Bingham award this year. Lincoln’s work contributes to understanding and evaluating a style of argume...

04/29/2025

Congratulations to Jake Beardsley, winner of this year’s Fink Award for his paper, "Towards a Continuous Reconstruction of the Rules of Impact," which examines Descartes’ mechanics. An honorable mention goes to Jacob MacDavid for his essay, "Deep Self Internalisms about Practical Reasons."

The Fink Committee, chaired by Professor Abe Roth with Professors Stewart Shapiro and Tristram McPherson, noted the overall strength of this year’s submissions, with ten essays making the selection process highly competitive.

Congratulations to both, and many thanks to the Fink Committee for their work!

04/29/2025

The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that Lincoln Lundgren has won this year’s Bingham Award for his paper, "Completing the Coincidence Argument Against Metaethical Nonnaturalism." Lincoln’s work was selected by the Bingham Committee, chaired by Professor Lisa Downing with committee members Robert Kraut and Jada Wiggleton-Little. The committee praised Lincoln’s outstanding contribution to the field and his clear, rigorous argumentation.

Congratulations to Lincoln, and many thanks to the Bingham Committee for their thoughtful work in evaluating the submissions!

04/28/2025

https://philosophy.osu.edu/news/philosophy-department-celebrates-spring-2025-phd-graduates

The Department of Philosophy is proud to recognize the achievements of five doctoral students who have successfully defended their dissertations and will be awarded their Ph.D's this semester.Jason DeWitt, Nathan Dowell, Dylan Flint, Vaughn Papenhausen, and Donald Soles Jr. pursued a wide range of p...

03/24/2025

https://philosophy.osu.edu/news/congratulations-lincoln-lundgren-winning-cehv-award

Congratulations to Lincoln Lundgren, a philosophy major, for being named a co-first place winner of the Center for Ethics and Human Values (CEHV) Award at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum! His project, "Is Use of Unproblematic Epistemic Resources to Achieve Permissible Ends Always Permissible...