- 2026-04-22 - The Department of Philosophy annually recognizes the academic excellence of graduate and undergraduate students and the teaching excellence demonstrated by graduate students and faculty.
2026-04-16 - 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 the University of Helsinki in Finland. His research project—titled "How Much Objectivity Can We Get?"—...
2026-04-13 - 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 advance the excellence of a unit, a college and/or the campus, and who exemplify the campus commitment...- 2026-01-22 - 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 Humanities in Action program aims to remove some of the financial barriers that prevent undergraduate...
2025-12-05 - Smith, our academic advisor, was recognized for his excellent service and commitment to student success.
2025-11-14 - This fall the Department of Philosophy welcomed professor Paul Tran-Hoang to our faculty as an assistant professor. Previously, he was a visiting assistant professor at Vassar College. Tran-Hoang's research focuses on logic, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mathematics. Read a Q&A to learn more about his research.
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...