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SPEP Public Outreach Committee Graduate Assistantship

The SPEP Public Outreach Committee is looking for a Social Media Assistant. Applicants should be current graduate students working on continental philosophy with an interest in public-facing philosophy and experience in social media content creation. The assistant will be responsible for starting and maintaining SPEP social media accounts in order to foster a community of…

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Call for Papers for the 63rd Annual SPEP Conference

Society for Phenomenology and Existential PhilosophyOctober 17-18 and October 24-25, 2025This year’s conference will be held online.Submission Deadlines: Book Session: December 1, 2024, 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time Papers and Panels: January 20, 2025, 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time Submission Categories: Single paper submissions: submit complete papers of no more than 3,000 words, along with…

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Thomas Flynn, In Memoriam

With sadness we learned of the death on Feb. 29, 2024, of Thomas R. Flynn, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University. He was 87. Tom joined the Emory department in 1978, after study at the Gregorian University in Rome and at Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D in 1970. Tom…

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Calvin O. Schrag, In Memoriam

The recent death of Calvin O. Schrag at an advanced age is an unhappy milestone in the history of SPEP. The offspring of a Dakota Mennonite family with impressive intellectual credentials, Cal earned a Master’s degree at Yale Divinity before graduating with a Doctorate in philosophy from Harvard, where he famously served as teaching assistant…

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Johanna Meehan, In Memoriam

It is with shock and profound sadness that we share with SPEP the news that Johanna Meehan died unexpectedly on January 8, 2024 from complications of a bacterial infection.  Johanna was McCay-Casady Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Grinnell College, where she had taught since 1990 and had just begun a phased retirement plan. Johanna…

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