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Remembering George E. Smith, University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus

We mourn the loss of George E. Smith, an Engineer, Historian, Philosopher, Professor, and colleague.

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Department Announcements

Associate Professor of Philosophy Christiana Olfert (with assistant editors Corinne Gartner and Adele Watkins at Wellesley College) has launched a new project called The Connected Corpus: a first-of-its-kind collection of annotated digital texts that helps readers engage with Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy in a new way. Its curated annotations describe philosophical connections between different Ancient texts and authors, and they connect the reader to those texts in translation and the original language. In a collaborative effort between Tufts philosophy students and over 100 contributors from 6 institutions, the first annotated edition of Plato's Republic has been published with funding from Tufts Springboard Awards and Wellesley College's Knapp Social Science Center.

Fall 2024: We welcome Professor Merve Tapinç to the department. Professor Tapinç specializes in Ethics, Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy