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- The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that we’ve added two new online courses on artificial intelligence in the fall semester: PHIL 440: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and PHIL 442: The AI Revolution. Both courses meet in the second half of the fall semester (October 21-December 11... Read full story Two New Online Courses on Artificial Intelligence for Fall 2024 Semester
- The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that professor Helga Varden has been elected as the Central Division Representative to the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association. Varden will serve a three-year term from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. We’re also very... Read full story Professor Helga Varden elected as Central Division Representative to the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association
- Max Fan, a junior Philosophy + CS major, has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which will provide three years of financial support for his graduate studies. Fan will graduate this May and begin his PhD at Cornell University in the fall. While at... Read full story Philosophy + CS undergraduate Max Fan awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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Alumni Spotlight: Maggie Wave (University Administration)
Maggie Wave is the Senior Regional Director at Washington University in St. Louis. She graduated from the University of Illinois in 2012 with degrees in Philosophy and Political Science.
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Faculty Spotlight: Jochen Bojanowski
Jochen Bojanowski is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, who does research in moral and political philosophy, with a particular interest in Kant’s practical philosophy. His first book, Kant’s Theory of Freedom, articulates and defends Kant’s incompatibilist account of free will as a capacity for moral autonomy—thus dealing with some of the most vexing problems in Kant’s moral philosophy and metaphysics.