2025-10-31
- Professor Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson has spent her career exploring the idea of terrorism. She's currently working on a new book that investigates the origins of terrorism in the United States. Read a Q&A to learn more about her work.
2025-10-30 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has awarded funding to professor John Schwenkler through the Study in a Second Discipline Program, which gives professors time and support to push beyond their primary discipline and cultivate new scholarly tools.
2025-10-17 - Kevin Crandall is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy who chose to study philosophy because he wants to make a difference. Understanding how language perpetuates injustice and is used to commit atrocities drives his research. Read a Q&A to learn more about his work.
2025-09-26 - This fall, the Department of Philosophy welcomes professor Stephen Finlay to our faculty. His research focuses on metaethics and philosophical moral psychology, particularly the semantics and pragmatics of normative language and the nature of normativity.
2025-06-13 - The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that recent PhD graduate Britt Currie has accepted an offer to be a lecturer of humanities and social sciences at Hutton Honors College at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research examines moral psychology, moral decision making, and philosophy of cognitive science. Her dissertation is titled "The Epistemology of Empathetic Understanding...
2025-06-06 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announced that professor Luvell Anderson has been elected to the Central Division Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association. Anderson has been named the Executive Committee Member-at-Large and will serve a three-year term ending in 2028. The American Philosophical Association (APA) promotes the discipline and profession of...
2025-05-30 - The Department of Philosophy leads an important endeavor: how to deal with the AI revolution-
2025-05-16 - Professor Luvell Anderson researches the social context behind the things that we find funny—or not—to learn more about how people use comedy to inspire reflection and deal with sensitive subjects.
2025-05-02 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the winners of our annual awards. This year’s awards honor the academic excellence of our graduate and undergraduate students and the teaching excellence demonstrated by our graduate students. Please join us in recognizing their achievements. We are grateful to...
2025-04-09 - Professor Stephen Finlay, an internationally prominent philosopher and one of the department’s most accomplished PhD graduates, has accepted a senior offer to join the faculty. Having previously served as Professor at the University of Southern California (ranked #6 in the nation) and as Director of the prestigious Dianoia Institute of Philosophy in Melbourne, Australia, Finlay brings a wealth of...
2025-04-04 - The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that former PhD student Addison Ellis has accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at The American University in Cairo. This news follows the recent...
2025-03-28 - Professor John Schwenkler talked with the University of Illinois News Bureau about the challenges and opportunities of living in a world shaped by digital technology and the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age.
2025-02-28 - Illinois philosophy professor and Brand Fortner Faculty Scholar in Physics Christopher Weaver recently published his second book, Causation in Physics. Philosophers of physics have long debated the role of causation. Weaver argues that causation not only exists in fundamental physics but that it is essential to it.
2025-02-21 - In 2025, Professor John Schwenkler and the University of Illinois Department of Philosophy will launch the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age which will explore how humans can thrive with digital technology, instead of letting our well-being be undermined by it.
2025-02-07 - We’re pleased to announce that the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was ranked in the top 50 departments in the United States by the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR). The PGR rankings are based on peer assessments of overall faculty quality and this year were decided on by a panel of 192...