Recent Honors and Awards

  • David O’Brien was a Faculty Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University in 2022-23, and was previously the Director of the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane’s Murphy Institute in 2021-22.
     
  • Oliver Sensen is a partner investigator for a joint three-year grant funded by the AHRC (UK) and DFG (Germany) on Respect, the so-called "Means and Ends Network (MEAN)”
     
  • Dan Burnston was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science in Spring 2023 and was previously a Scialog Fellow in the Cellular and Molecular Foundations of Cognition for his project "Network Topology Underlying Circuit Dynamics During Flexible Cognitive Behavior". 
     
  • Ronna Burger has been invited to be a Keynote Speaker for the International Plato Society annual meeting, which will be devoted this year to the Sophist
     
  • A collection of essays in honor of Ronna Burger, Nature, Law, and the Sacred, ed. Evanthia Speliotis, was published by Mercer University Press in 2020.
     
  • Chad Van Schoelandt, Kevin Morris, and Sabrina Leeds received a Center for Public Service Grant for Community research for their ongoing work at Project Lazarus, where Sabrina has been teaching philosophy courses to Lazarus residents since Fall 2018.
     
  • Oliver Sensen was elected to be Vice President of the North American Kant Society for 2017-2020. He also received a 2017 Faculty Networking Grant from Tulane. He also was named a partner investigator in a $246,000 research project funded by the Australian Research Council, titled: 'Conferring dignity in law and health care,' hosted at Monash University.
     
  • Richard Velkley was elected President of the Metaphysical Society of America for 2017-2018.
     
  • Kevin Morris received a Classroom Enhancement Grant for Fall 2017 for Donovan Wishon (University of Mississippi) to lead a discussion of Russell on introspection with his Analytic Philosophy course.
     
  • Dan Burnston was elected to the Tulane Brain Institute.