Tom Nickles received the Regents' Teaching Award at the Honor the Best Ceremony on May 17, 2006

Tom Nickles to be Joseph N. Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities for 2005-2007

Tom Nickles, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, has been named the Joseph N. Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities for 2005-2007.  During the period of this appointment, Tom will teach regularly in Core Humanities, and will develop new Capstone courses.  He will also be replaced in the Philosophy Department by a Post-Doctoral Fellow supported by the Core Humanities Endowment, which also funds the CH Distinguished Professorships.  Tom will be presenting public humanities lectures each semester during the term of the professorship.

Tom Nickles received B.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Illinois, and went on to complete a Ph.D. degree in history and philosophy of science at Princeton University.  While at Princeton, Tom was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Danforth Fellow, a National Science Foundation Fellow, and an Osgood Fellow.  He came to UNR in 1976, after teaching at the the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago.  In addition to more than 80 articles and numerous presentations in international venues, Tom has edited several books, among them Thomas Kuhn in the Cambridge University Press Contemporary Philosophers in Focus series (2003).  Tom has been very active in university affairs and has served three terms as chair of the Philosophy Department.  From 1986 to 1990, Tom was a Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada.