Eight Philosophers Win NEH Fellowships

For some reason, these awards (announced December 2007) are not yet on the NEH homepage, but presumably will be before long.  The successful philosophers and their projects are:

Jessica Berry (Georgia State University):  "Friedrich Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition"

John Doris (Washington University, St. Louis):  "The Philosophy and Psychology of the Self"

Fred Feldman (University of Massachussetts, Amherst):  "A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Happiness"

Boris Kment (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor):  "A Philosophic Analysis of the Concept of Possibility"

Samuel Newlands (University of Notre Dame):  "Reconceiving Benedict Spinoza's Metaphysics and Ethics"

Christopher Pincock (Purdue University):  "The Value of Mathematics for Scientific Representation and Knowledge"

Henry Richardson (Georgetown University):  "The Nature of Moral Community"

Manual Vargas (University of San Francisco):  "Beyond Atomism and Monism:  A Revisionist View of Moral Responsibility."

I had the privilege of supervising Dr. Berry's doctoral dissertation, out of which her current NEH project grows, and so I'm particularly thrilled that the NEH has decided to award her a Fellowship for University Teachers to support her work on her book on Nietzsche and ancient skepticism (which will be published by Oxford University Press).  (There's a short GSU news item on her project here.)