Department News

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The Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo shares news about faculty scholarship, research activity and departmental highlights throughout the year. This page features updates that reflect the intellectual life of the department and its connections to the broader philosophy community.

  • Graduate Student Publication: Robert Kelly
    3/17/16
    Robert Kelly's paper "Remembering past lives" is one of the chapters in a volume entitled Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy. Bob's co-authors are Claire White and Shaun Nichols.
  • Graduate Student Publication: David. G. Limbaugh
    3/17/16
    It has been a good week for David Limbaugh. He had a paper accepted by Ethics, Medicine and Public Health and then won the Evangelical Philosophical Society's prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper at their Mid West regional conference.  
  • McMahon wins 2019 Critical Language Scholarship
    2/18/26
  • Muldoon: Its segregation, not diversity, that divides us.
    2/18/26
    Professor Ryan Muldoon, an expert in social political philosophy, recently worked with the Knight Foundation on its Trust, Media and Democracy initiative. The foundation promotes excellence in journalism and the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Muldoon is part of the foundation’s panel of specialists in various fields committed to creating more informed and engaged communities. UB News featured the following article during the first week of the Fall 2018 semester.
  • The Powers Metaphysic
    9/14/19
    Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the repeated application of single, fundamental ontology. The dominant contemporary metaphysic is that of neo-Humeanism, built on a static ontology typified by its rejection of basic causal and modal features. This book offers a radically distinct metaphysic, one that turns the status quo on its head. Starting with a foundational ontology of inherently causal properties known as 'powers', Neil E. Williams develops a metaphysic that appeals to powers in explanations of causation, persistence, laws, and modality.
  • Research News features Barry Smith and the Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF)
    2/18/26
    Barry Smith and the Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) are hosting a global community of scholars, researchers and industry professionals working to create a logically organized set of definitions — known as an ontology — that would allow computer programs to communicate across different operating systems and software programs. The IOF's Third Expert Meeting,  March 5, 2020, is featured by UB Research News.
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