Richard Velkley will be the keynote speaker at the "Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives" conference held at the Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic, in October 2024.
Dan Burnston won a "Scialog” grant (with Wilma Bainbridge, Chicago, and Bob Wilson, Georgia Tech) for the project “Mapping Inner Worlds: Representational Spaces and Mental Life” in 2023.
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" (with Lucas Pinto, Northwestern, and Evelyn Tang, Rice) in 2022.
Dan Burnston received Tulane’s “Convergence Award” for interdisciplinary scholarship in October 2022.
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.
