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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…
Sara Bernstein and Daniel Nolan, who both work in metaphysics at the University of Notre Dame, have accepted senior offers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where they will start in fall 2025. That's a big coup for UCSC, and should push the program into the top 50.
(Thanks to John Bowin for the information.)
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