Department of Philosophy | UNIVERSITY of HAWAI'I at MĀNOA

Spring 2024 Hall of Fame
CONGRATULATIONS, Graduates
and Award Winners!!

Your achievements inspire us all – keep up the fantastic work.

The Philosophy faculty, graduate students, and staff are proud of you!

Bachelor of Art:
Tazlen Stephens

Master of Art: Zachary Nickles

Doctor of Philosophy:
Michael Dufresne with a thesis on “The Worlds of Wang Guowei: A Philosophical Case Study of Coloniality”

David Hall Prize:
John Olubiyi
Lana Fukuda

Ashok Kumar Malhotra “Seva” Award:
Halie White (GR)

Keith Whittingslow Essay Prize:
Sera Kong
Xinyi Yuan

The Eliot Deutsch PhD Merit Award:
Jana Light

Elizabeth Spann Award:
Kimberly Serratos (GR, group)

Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching:
Dr. Jonathan Fine (Assistant Professor)

Diotima and Socrates. An Encounter for the Ages
Ella Marsh and Ruel Mannette, UH PhD Candidates in Philosophy

A Philosopher’s Self-Debate on the Subject of Death
Dr. Sean Smith, Assistant Professor, UH Department of Philosophy

How to Be a Nonconsequentialist and Still Save the Greater Number
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 2:30 PM. Ben Kiesewetter is a Professor of Practical Philosophy at Bielefeld University in Germany. In this talk, Dr. Kiesewetter will criticize Scanlon’s contractualist attempt to defend the duty to save the greater number.
EAducation: Letters from Hawaiʻi to Palestine
EAducation: Letters from Hawaiʻi to Palestine | Friday, April 26, 2024, 2:30 PM | Sakamaki Hall C-308
Equality & Elitism: Early Modern Women and the Philosophy of Friendship
Thursday, April 25, 2024. Michaela Manson, PhD is an instructor at Simon Fraser University. In this talk, Dr. Manson will argue that accounts of friendship of some early modern women philosophers formulate the ideal of friendship in a way that averts the elitism objection while preserving commitments to virtue and similarity.
Knowing the Future: Based on Yijingʻs Theory of Situational Meaning
Friday, April 19, 2024. The lecture will be followed by a reception celebrating Dr. Chung-ying Cheng’s retirement and over 60 years of service to the University of Hawaiʻi.