Assistant Professor Alyssa Bernstein has been named the first Nancy Schaenen Visiting Scholar at the new Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. She will spend the academic year 2007-2008 doing research and writing, conducting reading and discussion groups, and delivering public lectures. Her research projects include a book manuscript currently entitled Human Rights and Global Justice: Contractualism and Capabilities.

Associate Professor Mark LeBar will be spending academic year 2007-08 as a Visiting Associate Professor with the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professor Philip Ehrlich has been awarded his third National Science Foundation Scholars Award. The purpose of the present award is to produce a monograph that will provide a philosophically sensitive in-depth historical account of the development of the theories of infinite and infinitesimal magnitudes and numbers to measure them that emerged from the theory of non-Archimedean ordered algebraic and geometric systems during its first golden period, which ranges from the publication of Giuseppe Veronese's Fondamenti di Geometria in 1891 to the appearance of Felix Hausdorff's Grundzüge der Mengenlehre in 1914.

 

Every four years the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh sponsors an international conference for current and former Center fellows, both visiting and resident. The objectives of these conferences are to renew old professional ties and friendships and to create new ones, as well as to promote academic cooperation and collaborative research among current and former center fellows. The first international meeting was held in Oxford, England; the second in Athens, Greece; the third in Florence, Italy; the fourth in Bariloche, Argentina; and the fifth in Rytro, Poland. The sixth will be held here at Ohio University, July 20-24, 2008.