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FACULTY HONORS
AL PLANTINGA has received the 2010 James A.
Burns, C.S.C. Award for Graduate Education. Al joins Ernan McMullin, who won the Burns twice, as the only other member of the Department to be so honored.
Two of our members will be receiving honorary degrees:
ALASDAIR MACINTYRE will be honored by Duke University, where he will be joined on the dais by, among others, Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
PETER VAN INWAGEN will be given an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by the University of St. Andrews at their convocation in June, 2011. St. Andrews was the host university of Peter’s Gifford Lectures in 2003, published as The Problem of Evil (Oxford, 2006).