Mahlon Powell Professor Katy Abramson

Professor Abramson’s book, On Gaslighting, was the subject of an author-meets-critics session at the 2025 Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The book has now appeared in paperbook and international editions have been published in Australia and in translation in Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, and Spanish. This summer Prof. Abramson gave a keynote address to the 51^st Annual International Hume Society meetings in Hamilton, Ontario.  In October she gave the Bodaken Lecture at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Rudy Professor Emeritus Marcia Baron

In October, Professor Baron gave the Nancy K. Rhoden Lecture at Oberlin College. She retired at the end of the fall semester after twenty-five years with the IU philosophy department.

Assistant Professor Bridger Ehli

Indiana University Bloomington Chancellor David A. Reingold sent a campus-wide email in September congratulating Professor Ehli on his six-month Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The fellowship enabled Prof. Ehli to spend six months in Berlin at the Institut für Philosophie at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Read Chancellor Reingold’s full message here.

Professor Adam Leite

Professor Adam Leite’s book, How to Take Skepticism Seriously, was the subject of an author-meets-critics session at the 2025 Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. A book symposium based on this session was published in the fall in The Asian Journal of Philosophy.

Halls Professor Kirk Ludwig

Professor Ludwig gave the Robert T. Harris Lecture in Social and Political Philosophy at Miami University, Ohio, in October.

Mahlon Powell Professor Tim O’Connor

In the fall semester, Professor O’Connor gave conference talks at Purdue University and Asbury Seminary and an invited lecture at the University of Scranton.

Halls Chair Emeritus Allen Wood

In September Professor Wood gave a colloquium lecture at Miami University, Ohio.  On Halloween he delivered the keynote address at the Indiana Philosophical Association fall conference at IU Bloomington. He retired at the end of the fall semester after nearly twenty years with the IU Philosophy Department. 

Professor Emeritus Rega Wood

Professor Wood retired at the end of the fall semester, having spent nearly twenty years with the IU Philosophy Department. This fall she received a three-year renewal of grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her ongoing research project producing authoritative editions of the works of Medieval philosopher Richard Rufus of Cornwall.