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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New publication! Temple Philosophy Ph.D. student Kevin Doherty and LKSOM medical student Reece Gorrie have published “Beyond Transparency” in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, proposing an ethical framework for AI-assisted clinical documentation. Read: rdcu.be/pDmG5EvhR58a
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scenes from First Friday at Temple Philosophy! 🌿📚 Thanks to everyone who stopped by to browse, chat, and spend some time with us. It was great to see students, faculty, and members of the Temple community out together. See you at the next one!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This Friday! 📚 Join Temple Philosophy for our colloquium with Sabina Vaccarino Bremner. We hope to see you there!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Faculty news 🎙️ Kristin Gjesdal’s work on Simone de Beauvoir is featured in a new episode of NRK’s Historiske kjendiser (“History’s Celebrities”), exploring Beauvoir’s life and thought. 🎧 In Norwegian: radio.nrk.no/podkast/hist...
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Faculty news 🎙️ Kristin Gjesdal’s work on Simone de Beauvoir is featured in a new episode of NRK’s Historiske kjendiser (“History’s Celebrities”), exploring Beauvoir’s life and thought. 🎧 In Norwegian: radio.nrk.no/podkast/hist...
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New from Temple Philosophy 🎙️ Espen Hammer joins Ricardo Lopes on The Dissenter to discuss After the Death of God and how Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche responded to secularization and religion’s changing place in modern life. Watch: youtu.be/Iy7zvZKb2Ok
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Faculty news 📚 A newly revised and expanded edition of Espen Hammer’s USA: En supermakt i krise is out September 24 from Kagge. The book examines recent American politics and the deeper roots of the country’s political divisions. Published in Norwegian. kagge.no/produkt/usa-9/
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Congratulations to Temple Philosophy PhD student Kevin Doherty on the publication of “The Many Faces of Documentation Burden” in The American Journal of Bioethics! Read the article: doi.org/10.1080/1526... #TemplePhilosophy #Bioethics
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Temple Professor Emerita Miriam Solomon asks why psychiatric stigma is so hard to reduce… and argues that real progress requires rethinking diagnostic concepts. Read: blog.apaonline.org/2026/09/15/w...
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Temple Philosophy at Princeton! Douglas Duckworth presents “Śāntideva and the Invisible Hand of Nonviolence,” with a response from Temple alum Tao Jiang (PhD ’01). Friday, Sept. 18 | 5–6:30 p.m. Aaron Burr Hall 219, Princeton RSVP: hl3631@columbia.edu
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Join us for the Philosophy Department Colloquium Series: Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (University of Pennsylvania), “Kant and Marx on the Constitutive Source of Transcendental Illusion” Friday, Sept. 25 | 3-5pm Mazur Hall 821 #TemplePhilosophy
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Join us this Friday for a philosophy talk by Hans Shenk, PhD candidate: “Clarifying Personal Transformation: A Tentative Attempt at a Unified Account” Friday, September 11, 2026 3:00–5:00 p.m. Mazur Hall 621 Organized by the Department of Philosophy. #TemplePhilosophy
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Many congratulations to Manasa Gopakumer on winning the highly competitive Temple Graduate School Summer Research Grant!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We had a number of placements out of Temple philosophy department that we would like to acknowledge in this thread!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Congratulations to Hans Shenk, winner of the 2026 Temple Philosophy Graduate Student Service Award, awarded in recognition of Hans' exemplary record of service in the department.
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Congratulations to graduating Philosophy majors Andreas Carleton, Gabija Stewart, and Jada Lenore Wilson, who were honored at the CLA Baccalaureate Award Ceremony! We're so proud of you, and we wish you the best of luck!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This year many of our undergraduates have had papers accepted for presentation at the GPPC Undergraduate Conference at the University of Delaware. Many congratulations to: Steven King, Dee Toor, Jada Wilson, Eisha Nair, and Andreas Carleton!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Congratulations to Temple philosophy PhD candidate Eli Benjamin who has accepted a post-doc position at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. He will be joining their research cohort for the 2026–2027 academic year. (More information in replies).
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are pleased to share that Professor Hammer recently had a conversation with Antonio Carlos Ruiz Soria on Lived Temporality and the Theory of Time as Creation. The conversation is linked below: www.linkedin.com/pulse/conver...
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We're delighted to welcome Dr. Rachana Kamtekar, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell to give a talk as part of Temple philosophy department's Colloquium series.
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Many congratulations to Temple Philosophy PhD Candidate Hans Shenk for being awarded by the APA with a Sanders Graduate Award! His is essay entitled: Revisiting Hornsby and Stanley: In Defense of Productive Practical Knowledge.
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We are pleased to announce Yuewen Chen as the recipient of the 2025 Nordev Award! He has received this award for his outstanding essay: “Aristotle on How Pleasure Perfects Activity.”  The Nordev Prize was endowed for the best paper in philosophy written by a graduate student. Congratulations Yuewen!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Congratulations to Professor Espen Hammer who has co-authored a book with Professor Fred Rush titled: The Routledge Guidebook to Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. The book is being published by Routledge and will be available on October 27th. Link to the book in the replies.
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Professor Espen Hammer will discuss his new book After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche with scholars Donovan Schaefer, Jeffrey Green, Sabina Bremner, and Daniele Lorenzini at the University of Pennsylvania. All are welcome to attend!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Congratulations to Associate Professor Eugene Chislenko for winning the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy! You can read more about his accomplishment here: iseethics.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/2...
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2025 winner of the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy
The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) is pleased to announce publicly the 2025 winner of the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy. This year’s Andrew Lig…
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Many congratulations to PhD candidate Eli Benjamin Israel on his recent publication "Navigating vagueness: Rule-following and the scope of trust" in The Philosophical Quarterly. You can read a preprint of his paper on PhilPapers at the link below: philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR
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Eli Benjamin Israel, Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust - PhilPapers
In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside explicitly defined expectations. I argue that this ...
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Arthur Krieger for his recent publication "Benzos (as) needed: research into as-needed and intermittent benzodiazepines for anxiety is required for comprehensive best prescribing practices" in Frontiers in Psychiatry. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Frontiers | Benzos (as) needed: research into as-needed and intermittent benzodiazepines for anxiety is required for comprehensive best prescribing practices
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Temple Philosophy PhD candidate Eli Israel recently published a blogpost on the blog of the APA, reflecting on his experience as a member (and current chair) of the APA Graduate Student Council, and offering an enthusiastic endorsement of service work for the good of the profession.
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Reflections on Service, the Profession, and the Graduate Student Council
“Service” is a tricky category in a grad student's career planning. The general advice one gets usually says to keep it to a minimum and focus on your dissertation. This is not all bad advice, but it ...
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Reminder: this is happening tomorrow!
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A reminder that the 2025 Beardsley Lecture at the Barnes Foundation is this Friday, April 25, 2025. We are honored to be joined by Professor Gary L. Hagberg of Bard College who will be speaking on "The Metaphorical Lens"
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
We're delighted to serve as hosts for the 2025 Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium @thegppc.bsky.social Undergraduate Conference this Saturday, April 26.
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We're looking forward to University of Pennsylvania Philosopher Quayshawn Spencer's presentation at the Temple University Science, Technology and Society Network, coming up on Monday, April 14, 12-1pm in the Charles Library First Floor Event Space.
Poster text:
Science, Technology and Society Network presents Guest Speaker Quayshawn Spencer (Penn).

Quayshawn Spencer is the Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Pennsylvania. Professor Spencer
specialize in philosophy of science, philosophy of
biology, and philosophy of race, including
metaphysical problems in race theory, such as
whether any folk racial classification divides people
into real biological groups.

The STS network at Temple University is a diverse group of faculty,
staff, and graduate students with interests in the social, historical, and
philosophical dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.
We meet monthly in hybrid form, Charles Library and Zoom. We
welcome all to join! Sign up to our listserv to receive emails about
upcoming seminars.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY NETWORK
presents
Guest Speaker Quayshawn Spencer(Penn)
Visit us:
sites.temple.edu/stsnetwork/
With support from Klein College of Media and Communication and
Charles Library
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We're delighted to be cohosting this conference with the University of Glasgow School of Law, and we're grateful that the GPPC and others see the value in thinking carefully and clearly about this topic right now.
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Assistant Professor @brianhutler.bsky.social in the blog of the APA, writing about his recent work about hospital relocation and indirect discrimination. blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/21/h...
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History, Hospitals, and Health Disparities
In the early days of COVID-19, I was a bioethics fellow at Johns Hopkins, and I became involved with several efforts to evaluate the ethics of the pandemic response. One thing that immediately stood o...
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
We're grateful for this excellent coverage from The Temple News of the recent interactive AI fair we cohosted with other departments. Find some great quotes from @brianhutler.bsky.social in the article below. temple-news.com/interactive-...
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Interactive AI fair sparks crucial conversations - The Temple News
This week’s AI Fair at Charles Library encouraged dialogue with a diverse group of attendees exploring the future of artificial intelligence.
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We're delighted to welcome Dr. Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at MIT as our 2024-2025 Distinguished Speaker. As part of her visit, Dr. Haslanger will present a public lecture "Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care" from 3-5 p.m. in Mazur Hall 821.
A poster for the 2024-2025 Temple Philosophy Distinguished Speaker Public Lecture by Dr. Sally Haslanger, including the abstract, time, and location, which are also available in the main post or comments. In the lower right hand corner there is a round-framed photo of Dr. Haslanger.
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Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
📑Lee-Ann Chae reflects on way we generally speak to children about war & killing, with stories of #badguys whom it is necessary to kill, & concludes we must learn to tell different stories if we are to better prepare children to seek genuine #peace: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
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Eli Benjamin Israel @badkantian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Kicking off 2025 with some good news - Very proud to share that my paper "Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust" is now forthcoming in the Philosophical Quarterly! philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR
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Eli Benjamin Israel, Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust - PhilPapers
In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside explicitly defined expectations. I argue that this ...
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're excited to cohost Temple's Interactive AI Fair February 25-26. @brianhutler.bsky.social and Eli Alshanetsky are representing the department on an interdisciplinary organizing committee. You can find more information at sites.temple.edu/fair/
A blue, red, and black poster advertising Temple University's Interactive AI Fair. It promises cutting-edge research, interactive exhibits and prizes. It announces Charles Library at Temple as the location of the fair, February 25-26th as the dates for the fair, and has a QR code for more information, as well as the url https://sites.temple.edu/fair/
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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hello, Bluesky! This is the current official Bluesky account for the Philosophy Department at Temple University in North Philadelphia. We generally use social media to announce department events and post updates about the accomplishments of faculty and grad students.
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