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I first met Tom around 2002. I was a graduate student in Philosophy at UVA and dating someone who was…
I didn’t intend to write a dissertation on Kant’s ethics. But I took a seminar from Tom and gradually it…
As another of the participants in that 1993 NEH summer seminar, I can attest to everything that Richard Galvin says…
I had the great fortune of studying with Tom at Chapel Hill. I finished my dissertation in 1999, but I…
Thomas E. Hill died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on July22, 2026. What follows are some remembrances of his major…
In one of my UNC graduate seminars with Tom, a classmate remarked that cotemporary Kantians seemed interested in Kant only…
I would posit the following question to practicing philosophers out there: have you examined all of the major LLMs to…
I think this is the best and most accurate piece on a philosopher I've ever seen in the New York Times. Since we pick on journalists a lot, let us take a moment to extend congratulations to James Ryerson, the author, for having done an excellent piece of writing for a popular audience about a philosopher's life and work.
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