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- Professor Stephen Finlay will be taking up a 2026-27 Core Fellowship at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study, an interdisciplinary center for humanities and social sciences at... Read full story Professor Stephen Finlay to explore Perspectivist approach during fellowship in Helsinki
- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently recognized philosophy and law professor Rob Kar with an Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award. This award recognizes faculty members who have provided extraordinary leadership contributions across many dimensions of shared governance that... Read full story Rob Kar receives Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award
- Philosophy and Spanish major Michelle Cordova (class of 2028) was selected as a spring 2026 Humanities in Action scholar by We CU and the Humanities Research Institute. The... Read full story Philosophy student to put Humanities in Action in C-U community
Living Well Online
Explore philosophical reflection on human happiness, flourishing, and virtue, with a focus on the challenge of living well in a digital age.
Current Controversies: Achievement and Games
Why should we think achievements are good, independent of any broader social or personal benefit? Why should games be important sources of satisfaction when they seem so trivial? Why should we—as many do—pride ourselves in our achievements in games?
Early Stoicism
An investigation into Ancient Greek Stoicism. We study the influences on the first Stoics and the Stoic theories of logic, physics, and ethics.
Michel Foucault
Understand the work of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.
Philosophy of Law and the State
Examine issues in the philosophy of law, such as the nature of law, law and morality, justice, liberty and authority, punishment, and legal responsibility.
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Alumni Spotlight: Lally A. Gartel (Attorney)
Lally A. Gartel is Vice President and Senior Counsel for Litigation at Guaranteed Rate, Inc. She graduated from Illinois in 2009.
Faculty Spotlight: Helga Varden
Helga Varden is a Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Gender and Women Studies, whose main research interests are in Kant’s practical philosophy, legal-political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the philosophy of sex and love. She is author of Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory (Oxford University Press) and is currently working toward a book entitled Transforming Our Social Contracts.