Five Philosophy PhD Students Win Newcombe Fellowships

They are:  Epifanio Sonny Elizondo (UCLA, for "The Pleasures of Agency:  Kant on Morality and Happiness"), Stanislaus Husi (Rice, for "Building Reasons"), Christiana Olfert (Columbia, for "Building the Soul:  Aristotle's Constitutive View of Virtue"), Christopher Raymond (Texas, for "Shame, Reason, and Virtue in Plato's Ethics"), and Karim Sadek (Georgetown, for "Islamic Democracy:  The Struggle for and Limits of Recognition").  (I was pleased to write on behalf of Mr. Raymond who, in addition to his dissertation on Plato's moral psychology, is doing very good work on Nietzsche.)  A list of past Newcombe winners is here.