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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...

2025-02-04 - The Department of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate in Ethics and/or Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. This position is a one-year appointment; renewal of the position is possible and contingent on availability of funding, strong enrollments, and strong performance...

2025-01-17 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Professor Shelley Weinberg has been selected as an associate in the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) during the 2025 – 26 academic year, pending Board of Trustees approval. She will receive one semester of release time from teaching in the Department of Philosophy.One...

2024-12-20 - The Winter 2024 issue of Illinois Alumni magazines featured an interview with philosophy professor Jochen Bojanowski. Read the interview below and check out the full issue here....

2024-10-25 - The Department of Philosophy is delighted to host the 2024 meeting of the Illinois Philosophical Association. All sessions will be hosted in either the Illini Union or Lincoln Hall on October 25 and 26. See the schedule of events and learn more on their website. Learn more

2024-09-20 - The Department of Philosophy is now offering an online certificate in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Employers in many industries are actively seeking employees who have experience grappling with the risks and ethical questions posed by artificial intelligence. The Ethics of AI Certificate will impart the core skills and knowledge students need to understand how to mitigate the risks...

2024-08-23 - The Department of Philosophy honors Professor McKim, emeritus professor of religion and philosophy who passed away suddenly. McKim was the director of the Program for the Study of Religion (2005-8); head of the Department of Religion (2008-10) and a professor of religious studies and of philosophy for the Campus Honors Faculty (...

2024-08-23 - The Department of Philosophy is conducting an open search, with respect to subject matter, for a full-time, 9-month appointment, tenure system assistant/associate/full professor of philosophy. 

2024-07-12 - 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, 2024).PHIL 440: Ethics of Artificial IntelligenceThe development of Artificial...

2024-05-24 - 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 pleased to note that alumna, Krista K. Thomason (PhD, ’09, philosophy), who is now an associate professor at...

2024-05-10 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce more recipients of this year’s annual awards. This follows our previous announcement of annual award winners.Donald W. Doerscher AwardEvelyn Huzenis Howard F. Crombie Award...

2024-05-03 - 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 the University of Illinois, and during a summer internship at NASA in 2023, Fan proposed and...

2024-05-03 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Andrew Smith is the winner of this year's Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award. This award is bestowed annually on the department’s best graduate student instructor. Decisions are based on student evaluations, faculty observations, and any other evidence that a graduate student has exceeded normal expectations in terms of...

2024-05-03 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the winners of our annual awards. This year’s awards honor our faculty and graduate students for their teaching excellence and service to the department. Please join us in recognizing their contributions to the department.  The Department of...

2024-05-03 - The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that Ashli Anda has accepted an offer as a lecturer in the philosophy department at California Lutheran University. She will be teaching a class called Oppression and Liberation and will also teach Latin American philosophy. It’s been a goal of Anda’s to work for a Hispanic Serving Institution like California Lutheran University since she attended...