Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University

This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools, the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins communications offices.

Researchers Run ‘Philosophy Experiment’ in a Lab to Test Objectivity of Vision

Johns Hopkins University researchers who study the mind and brain used methods from cognitive science to test a long-standing philosophical question: Can people see the world objectively?

June 8, 2020 Tags: Chaz Firestone, cognitive science, Jorge Morales, perception, philosophy
| Category: Psychology

Wall Street’s Bill Miller Commits Record $75 Million to Philosophy Department

Legendary investor William H. “Bill” Miller III has committed a record $75 million to the Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy, believed to be by far the largest ever to a university philosophy program.

January 16, 2018 Tags: Beverly Wendland, Bill Miller, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, philanthropy, philosophy, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, William Miller
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Homewood Campus News, University-Related