Professor Rosenberg Wins Honor!

ALEXANDER ROSENBERG WINS ROMANELL-PHI BETA KAPPA
PROFESSORSHIP IN PHILOSOPHY
Lectures to Address Controversies on Darwinism

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Professor Alexander Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of
Philosophy at Duke University, has been awarded the Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy for 2006-07.

Each year, the professorship is presented to a philosophy scholar in recognition of
distinguished achievement and the scholar’s past or potential contribution to public understanding of philosophy. Recipients receive a stipend of $7,500 and are expected to present three public lectures at their institutions.

John Churchill, Secretary of the Society, states that the “Romanell Professorship, with its three thematically related lectures, is an opportunity for PBK to promote philosophical inquiry and to honor the recipient’s important contributions to the field.”

Rosenberg’s lecture series is titled “The Meaning of Darwinism” and proposes to guide
the listener through the theoretical place and role of Darwinism within the natural sciences, humanities, and social and behavioral sciences.

David Wong, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duke University, states that “With a body of distinguished achievement in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology in particular, Alex Rosenberg is the philosopher to address the opportunities and the problems brought by the biological sciences.”

Rosenberg has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Science Foundation Senior Scholar, and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1993, he won the Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science. A prolific scholar, Rosenberg has authored approximately 170 articles and ten books.

His B.A. was from City College of New York and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins.
The professorship is made possible by an endowment from the late Patrick Romanell,
H.Y. Benedict Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso, and his wife, Edna.

ABOUT PHI BETA KAPPA: Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 270 colleges and universities and half a million members throughout the country. The Romanell-PBK Professorship is part of the Society’s mission to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence, and to foster freedom of thought and expression. Among
the Society’s other programs are lectureships, a fellowship, a professorship, a visiting scholar program, and publication of an award-winning quarterly, The American Scholar.