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Oxford University Press recently published two textbooks on logic by Associate Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus recently attended the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in San Diego, where he presented a talk and chaired a session.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus recently published An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics: A Reader. Marcus co-edited the book with Mark McEvoy of Hofstra University.

Seniors Brett Bracco, Sara Purinton and Dan Farina presented posters based on their senior theses at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in Washington, D.C.

MathSciNet and Philosophia Mathematica recently featured reviews of Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus’ book Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Two Hamilton faculty members were approved for tenure by the College’s Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The board granted tenure to Russell Marcus, philosophy, and Benjamin Widiss, literature and creative writing.

Six Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds on Class & Charter Day on May 9.

Hamilton College’s highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members during the annual Class & Charter Day ceremony on May 9.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus was the co-author of An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics, published this month by Bloomsbury. The book covers work from the Presocratics to the present.

“The Eleatic and the Indispensabilist,” an article by Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus, was recently published in the open access journal Theoria. The article focused on the debate over whether we should believe that mathematical objects exist and how that debate connects to the general question of how to determine what we should believe to exist.