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Sandra Mitchell Appointed to the Committee for Science Planning of the International Science Council for 2022-2024
Sandra D. Mitchell has been appointed as a member of the Committee for Science Planning of the International Science Council for 2022-2024. The International Science Council (ISC) is a global non-governmental organization that integrates scientific excellence and science-policy expertise from all fields of science and all regions of the world to pursue science as a global public good. For more information, see https://council.science/
Bob Olby's Passing
With great sadness we have learned of Bob Olby's passing on December 31st, 2020. Bob was a faculty member in the Pittsburgh HPS Department from 1994 to 1999, when he retired.
Edouard Machery elected president of SPP
Edouard Machery has been elected president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology for 2022-2023.
Passing of Ted McGuire
[image: Carl Hempel & Ted McGuire, 1984]
With great sadness we report that James Edward (Ted) McGuire passed away on May 12, 2022. Ted was a founding member of the Pittsburgh HPS Department, hired in 1971 from the University of Leeds, UK to join Larry Laudan who moved from the Pitt History Department.
Dasha Pruss Receives Horowitz Foundation Award
Dasha Pruss has received a competitive award from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for her project “Algorithmic Fairness in Practice: How Judge Discretion Interacts with a Sentencing Risk Assessment Instrument." Two thirds of the award will be disbursed immediately, and the remainder the completion of dissertation or publication of an article or chapter based on the dissertation research. Congratulations Dasha!
Dasha Pruss Wins Pitt Data & Society Grant and PSA Best Student Essay Award
Graduate student Dasha Pruss has been awarded a grant from Pitt's Data & Society program to produce quantitative and qualitative analyses of fairness outcomes when courts in Pennsylvania use A.I. to guide sentencing decisions. Dasha also won the Philosophy of Science Association's Mary B.
Colin Allen Receives Grant for International Project on Joy in Animals
Faculty member Colin Allen has received a $600,000 dollar grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation for a project titled "Joyful by nature: a comparative approach to the evolution and function of joy in intelligent species." The University of Pittsburgh will be the lead institution with scientist-partners at the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury in New Zealand, St.
Edouard Machery receives award for cross-cultural study of AI principles
Faculty member Edouard Machery has been awarded a grant under the University of Pittsburgh's "Momentum Funds" program for an international study of "
New Video from Prof. Edouard Machery's Geography of Philosophy Project
Prof. Edouard Machery's Geography of Philosophy Project has published its first video – “The Future of Philosophy” – on YouTube.