News archive: 2021

The Schader Prize 2022 has been awarded to Professor Herzog for her groundbreaking work on the philosophy of markets, on theories of justice and on economic ethics.

Andreas Schmidt has won the second prize of a paper competition held by the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston.

De Groningse bacheloropleiding Filosofie kreeg opnieuw het label Topopleiding toegekend in de Keuzegids Universiteiten 2022.

A portrait of our emeritus professor of Theoretical Philosophy Jeanne Peijnenburg was recently added to the gallery of professors in the Senate Chamber of the University of Groningen.

Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, who recently graduateed from Columbia University and started as lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy last year, has won the North American Kant Society Wilfrid Sellars Prize for junior scholars.

Sjoerd Griffioen, skills teacher at our faculty, received the Praemium Erasmianum dissertation prize for his thesis Contested Modernity.

Sjoerd Griffioen has won the Stichting Praemium Erasmianum Research Prize for his dissertation Contested Modernity. Karl Löwith, Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt and the German Secularization Debate.

As from 1 April, Jan-Willem Romeijn , professor of philosophy of science at our faculty, is our new dean.

The Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research 2021 has been awarded to professor of Political Philosophy Lisa Herzog. The award consists of €300.000 to be spent on her research.