12/18/2020 - Congratulations to Prof. Colleen Murphy, whose paper in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, "On Principled Compromise: When Does a Process of Transitional Justice Qualify as Just", was...
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11/23/2020 - Does the US need to pursue transitional justice in the post-Trump era? https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1749294700
11/04/2020 - Dr. Jesse Fitts received a BA in philosophy (with minors in political science and mathematics) from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2007 and an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of...
11/04/2020 - We are pleased to welcome a new faculty member, Dr. Brian Reese, to the Department of Philosophy. Dr. Reese's research interests span the major areas of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. His...
09/23/2020 - Congratulations to Professor Benjamin Levinstein, who has been awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the academic year 2020-2021....
09/23/2020 - The National Science Foundation's Convergence Accelerator Grant has been awarded to the project "QuSTEAM: Convergent Undergraduate Education in Quantum Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and...
09/23/2020 - Professor Helga Varden has been promoted to the rank of full professor and awarded the 2020 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award for her truly exceptional contributions. She is among the only eleven...
09/23/2020 - https://las.illinois.edu/news/blog/las-insider/2020-07-22/students-look-forward-fall-2020-...
06/22/2020 - https://www.apaonline.org/news/510827/APA-board-and-GSC-issue...
05/28/2020 - The annual Caton Prize for best graduate student essay has been awarded to Seungil Lee for his essay "The Passage of Time." We have also recently learned that Seungil has been awarded the Graduate...
10/04/2019 - https://las.illinois.edu/news/2019-10-03/new-faculty-embark-bright-futures-illinois
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08/26/2019 - The Department of Philosophy is sad to relay the news of the death of Professor Emeritus James Wallace. Prof. Wallace was known far and wide as an outstanding philosopher. Those of us fortunate...
08/22/2019 - Congratulations to new faculty member Guillermo Del Pinal for his appearance in /The Philosopher's Annual/ /2018/, a list of the ten top articles from the year's philosophical literature. Prof. Del...
05/21/2019 - Ian Hegger, who received his PhD from Philosophy in 2015, was named Coastal Carolina Community College Educator of the Year.