Masato Ishida successfully defended his dissertation entitled: Philosophical Commentary on C. S. Peirce's "On a New List of Categoriies": Exhibiting Logical Structure and Abiding Relevance. Vincent Colapietro chaired the doctoral committee, with Dennis Schmidt and Christopher Long as inside members and Stephen Simpson as the outside member of the committee.
Dr. Ishida also received the Department of Philosophy's Joseph J. Kockelmans Award in Philosophy. The purpose of this award is to honor and recognize outstanding achievement by a graduate student in Philosophy who is ABD. Professor Kockelmans was employed as a professor of philosophy at Penn State from 1968 to 1995. He was an important figure in the history of continental philosophy in the United States, being heavily involved in the early days of SPEP, the Heidegger Circle, and the journal Man and World, now known as Continental Philosophy Review. He was also the first "continental" President of the APA Eastern Division.
We congratulate Dr. Ishida on his recent accomplishments. We will miss him and we wish him the best success in his excellent placement.
Congratulations, Masato! This is great news!