02/01/2023 - The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce that on January 16, Agnes Galina Shatalov, Professor Keren Shatalov's daughter, came into the world healthy and happy.
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01/16/2023 - Though Dr. King is perhaps best known for his work on civil rights for African Americans, he also studied philosophy and was deeply moved by various philosophical lines of thinking. The Philosophy...
01/11/2023 - Bruce Rosenstock, one of our Affiliated Faculty Members who taught philosophy of religion, recently passed away in his home, surrounded by his family members.
01/05/2023 - The John Locke Society will be holding its Annual Conference at the University of Illinois, from June 13-15. Professor Shelley Weinberg, who sits on the Executive Committee, is organizing the event.
01/05/2023 - The philosophy department is happy to announce that Professors Weinberg and Bojanowski are winners of the 2022 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
11/22/2022 - Robert Vanderbeek has been named winner of this year's Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award, bestowed annually on the department’s best graduate student instructor.
11/03/2022 - Professor Helga Varden's recent book, Sex, Love & Gender: A Kantian Theory (Oxford University Press 2020), was released today in paperback form. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive...
10/01/2022 - Christine Korsgaard, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and world renowned moral philosopher, studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
09/16/2022 - The department of philosophy is searching for multiple full-time, tenure-track assistant/associate/full professors of philosophy.
09/09/2022 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has appointed Professor Robin Kar as the new Interim Department Head of the...
09/08/2022 - The Philosophy Department recently extended a Faculty Affiliate Position to Professor Michael Moore, the...
09/05/2022 - Illinois Philosophy is proud to announce that four new lecturers - Zachary Biondi, Seungil Lee, Patrick Leland, and Ioan Muntean - have joined the faculty this Fall.
06/28/2022 - This story was written by Ashley Gilbert, an upcoming sophomore journalism student at the University of Illinois. Ashley aspires to become an investigative journalist and use journalism to have...
05/31/2022 - The winner of the 2022 Caton Prize is Robert Vanderbeek. The title of Robert's paper is "Why Responsibility Doesn't Make the Cut." The winner of the 2022 Shwayder Prize is Emily Ann Pasetes. The...
05/25/2022 - Nine philosophy undergraduates were presented with scholarships for the 2021-2022 academic year. The scholarships and recipients are listed below. The Lois Green Scholarship is designed to recognize...
